Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 13

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +13

Overall GiG Score: 21

HOPE PROJECTS (WEST MIDLANDS) LTD

The Hope Projects work to help destitute asylum-seekers and others barred from public funds in the West Midlands.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 14 years

http://www.hope-projects.org.uk

admin@hope-projects.org.uk

07779980899

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£414	£395	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22	£367	£367	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21	£375	£299	£76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/03/20	£281	£248	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/19	£273	£227	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/18	£217	£192	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£161	£178	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£238	£226	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£189	£179	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£184	£187	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£157	£166	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£164	£174	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£139,897
Barrow Cadbury Trust	£96,765
Tudor Trust	£90,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£63,096
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£62,777
AB Charitable Trust	£50,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196	22/11/2022	Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hope Projects
£20,000	30/06/2022	An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Hope Projects supports destitute people seeking asylum and focuses on asylum refusals by providing OISC level 3 ....more An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Hope Projects supports destitute people seeking asylum and focuses on asylum refusals by providing OISC level 3 legal advice and representation through out Birmingham.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Hope Housing 2022-2024
£40,000	30/04/2022	To continue to support Hope's work with asylum seekers to find pathways out of destitution.
National Lottery Community Fund - Asylum Wellbeing
£139,897	20/12/2021	The funding will be used over 3 years to improve the physical and mental health of people who have been made homeless after being refused asylum.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£50,000	20/10/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£40,000	09/08/2021	A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID61
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hope Projects
£15,000	01/07/2021	An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Hope Projects support homeless and destitute people seeking asylum, with a focus on resolving refusals of asylum. Its approach combines housing, subsistence grants ....more An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Hope Projects support homeless and destitute people seeking asylum, with a focus on resolving refusals of asylum. Its approach combines housing, subsistence grants and legal advice and representation
Tudor Trust - Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£90,000	18/06/2021 36	over three years towards salaries at a charity supporting destitute refugees and asylum seekers in Birmingham and across the West Midlands
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£10,900	05/10/2020	A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Hope Projects
£16,765	21/09/2020 6	To improve the safety of the temporary accommodation Hope provides and update its fundraising strategy in light of the pandemic.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£10,527	24/07/2020	Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£2,400	11/06/2020	COVID19 : Purchase equipment including IT equipment for a charity that works with asylum seekers in West Midlands
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Hope Projects Housing and Grants
£40,000	25/04/2020 24	To continue to support Hope's work on finding pathways out of asylum destitution.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hope Projects
£15,000	25/04/2019	An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Hope Projects supports refugees & asylum seekers whose asylum appeals have been refused. It provides housing, emergency support and legal advice & ....more An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Hope Projects supports refugees & asylum seekers whose asylum appeals have been refused. It provides housing, emergency support and legal advice & representation.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£75,000	06/07/2018 36	To improve access to competent legal immigration/asylum advice and representation in the West Midlands for asylum-seekers and other new migrants, for whom such access can often be a matter of life or ....more To improve access to competent legal immigration/asylum advice and representation in the West Midlands for asylum-seekers and other new migrants, for whom such access can often be a matter of life or death.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hope Projects
£15,000	31/10/2017	£15,000 towards core costs. Hope Projects supports refugees & asylum seekers whose asylum appeals have been refused. It provides housing, emergency support and legal advice & representation.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Supporting Pathways out of Destitution 2017-20
£60,000	08/07/2017 36	A grant to support and embed the organisation's refocusing of its work to support pathways out of destitution and become an exemplar project in the field
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	03/05/2017	Hope Projects Core
AB Charitable Trust - Helping destitute and homeless asylum-seekers
£10,000	25/10/2016	£10,000 towards core costs of the Hope Destitution Fund and Hope Housing
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hope Projects (West Midlands) Ltd
£75,000	10/06/2015 36	To improve access to competent legal immigration/asylum advice and representation in the West Midlands for asylum-seekers and other new migrants, for whom such access can often be a matter of life or ....more To improve access to competent legal immigration/asylum advice and representation in the West Midlands for asylum-seekers and other new migrants, for whom such access can often be a matter of life or death.
AB Charitable Trust - helping destitute and homeless asylum-seekers
£10,000	27/01/2015	£10,000 towards core costs of the Hope Destitution Fund and Hope Housing
Barrow Cadbury Trust - MIGRANTS UNION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
£3,000	19/12/2014	Provide capital funds to assist in the development of a peer support project
Barrow Cadbury Trust - self-management/volunteering
£37,000	12/07/2014	self-management/volunteering
AB Charitable Trust - helping destitute and homeless asylum-seekers
£10,000	29/10/2013	£10,000 towards core costs of the Hope Destitution Fund and Hope Housing
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Hope Projects
£30,000	31/01/2012	Towards the provision of support services for people in the community, disadvantaged by having no recourse to public funds.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-73

DEREK CLINTON BENNETT F.C.A.

DOMINIC BRADLEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chief Executive

LAURA WHITEHOUSE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Finance Manager

LOUISE CALVEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Manager, Other trusteeship: TRADE SEXUAL HEALTH,

RANJIT SONDHI Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Governance And Regulation, Other trusteeships: THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION, THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST, SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA LITERATURES AND ARTS ARCHIVE (SALIDAA), PMA FOUNDATION, CITIZENS UK CHARITY, NISHKAM HEALTHCARE TRUST, BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP,

REV DR NEIL WHARRIER JOHNSON BA HONS MA (Chair), Other trusteeships: JOSEPH SCOTT'S CHAPEL CHARITY, THE OLD MEETING HOUSE BIRMINGHAM (MINISTERS) FUND,

SURINDER GURU Appointed: 2010, Occupation: None

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/10/2010, number: 1138402
Registered at Companies House on 10/08/2010, number: 07341898

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

12 returns made; all on time

Main office

Hope Projects
Jericho Building
196-198 Edward Road
Balsall Heath
BIRMINGHAM
B12 9LX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND IMMIGRANTS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS WHO ARE NOT SETTLED OR ARE RECENTLY SETTLED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1971 BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF SUCH IMMIGRANTS BY THE DIRECT PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE IN CASH OR IN KIND TO MEET THEIR ACCOMMODATION OR SUBSISTENCE NEEDS OR REASONABLE EXPENSES(B) THE RELIEF OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS OF SUCH IMMIGRANTS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT(C) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO SUCH IMMIGRANTS WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE(D) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM(E) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:? MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;? OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;? RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;? RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;? COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;? RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;? PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;? PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;? ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST MIDLANDS

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