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Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ACTIVE HOPE

THE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/10/23£290£274£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/22£322£220£102n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/21£169£149£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/20£165£139£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/19£167£174£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/18£168£165£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/17£133£154£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/16£151£145£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/15£161£169£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/14£139£143£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/13£128£119£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/12£158£111£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/11*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.activehope.org

office@activehope.org

01925264584

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Warrington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Steve Morgan Foundation£174,900
BBC Children in Need£45,000
Joseph Rank Trust£37,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£6,000
Cheshire Community Foundation£4,521
Co-Operative Group£3,699
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active Hope
£1,665 21/10/2023
Working with local children, we'd like to provide access to a programme of activities that improve their wellbeing. These include forest adventures, climbing courses, and water sports.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Active Hope
£45,000 27/02/2023
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This grant will provide outdoor and adventurous activities and residential experience to disadvantaged and vulnerable children. The intended outcome is to give them the confidence and ability to become the best version of themselves.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Camping Tents
£2,500 02/02/2023
Active Hope support local children from disadvantaged backgrounds and challenging social environments by providing outdoor and adventure activities. This funding grant will be used to purchase a set of camping tents, to enable us to offer camping ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Active Hope
£57,000 09/11/2022
3 years grant for residential programmes throughout the summer
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Active Hope
£111,900 09/11/2022
3 years grant for shortfall in Mentoring Programme
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Active Hope
£6,000 09/11/2022
Towards a new bike stock
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,250 31/10/2022
Core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active Hope
£2,034 22/10/2022
We plan to run "Adventure Academy" - a project that allows local children to experience adventurous activities, gain new skills, improve their wellbeing and help them to feel good about themselves.
Joseph Rank Trust - Active Hope, Warrington
£37,500 29/07/2022
To fund the core costs of the charity
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£3,000 06/05/2022
Urban Adventure Project
Cheshire Community Foundation - Climbing Equipment
£2,021 10/11/2021
Active Hope uses outdoor and adventurous activities as a tool to reach disadvantaged and vulnerable children, allowing them to access things like kayaking, mountain biking, archery, climbing, forest skills and much more. New climbing equipment will ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£3,000 27/12/2019
Adventure Academy
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active Hope
£4,226 15/11/2019
We want to run a three-day, residential 'Adventure Academy' during school holidays, with fun outdoor activities for children aged 7-11.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 43-77
  • ALAN LESLIE SHIELDS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
  • DR GRAHAM PALMER, Occupation: Retired General Practitioner
  • FIONA LOUISE AVERY MRS Appointed: 2024
  • JONATHAN CURTIS Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Child Minder
  • KEITH CURTIS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • LEE ROGERS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Hr Manager
  • RUTH HELEN HUGHES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Housewife
  • SUSAN MARGARET HATTON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired School Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/2011, number: 1140534
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/01/2011, number: 07490362
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; AR11: 137 days late,
Main office

5 PANGBOURNE CLOSE
APPLETON
WARRINGTON
WA4 5HJ

Objectives

( I ) TO EDUCATE AND ASSIST YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITYSO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY GROW TO FULLMATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BEIMPROVED(2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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