Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

HOPE FAMILY TRUST 

charitable works mainly focused on social activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

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: 10 years

hopefamilyuk.org

admin@hopefamilyuk.org

07507648948

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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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£200£113£86n/an/an/an/an/a48
31/03/22£71£103£-32n/an/an/an/an/a51
31/03/21*£152£110£42n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£46£42£4n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£36£36£0n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/03/18£35£27£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£33£28£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£43£40£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£25£20£6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 48 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham,

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
The Trussell Trust£406,490
City Bridge Trust£75,372
DCMS£36,840
Essex Community Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Hope Family Trust
£7,500 26/01/2023
to support the core costs of the premises of a foodbank within the Barking and Dagenham area
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£36,000 16/11/2022
Volunteer management and engagement
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£140,190 21/10/2022
0.6 FTE in house advice worker, increasing to 1 FTE in Y2 (and Y3)
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£5,000 12/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£17,848 20/07/2022
Making existing space more fit for purpose.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hope Family Trust
£65,400 13/05/2022
£65,400 (£21,600; £21,600; £22,200) for the part-time Volunteer Co-ordinator (2dpw) and associated project costs towards the foodbank volunteer programme.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£35,106 14/07/2021
24
Additional 18.5 hpw for FB Coordinator, for 2 years
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£3,501 05/03/2021
Food and supplies purchase
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£18,845 14/10/2020
Income maximisation - advice worker
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£36,840 03/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hope Family Trust
£9,972 15/05/2020
A grant of £9,972 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£75,000 25/06/2019
36
New premises
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£75,000 25/06/2019
New premises
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£4,646 12/02/2019
New p/t post
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£4,646 31/01/2019
12
Part salary for new food bank manager
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barking Foodbank
£2,682 29/11/2017
A delivery van will help us to support families in poverty who can't afford nutritious food, preventing unnecessary health issues.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/07/2014, number: 1157921
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR15: 3 days late,
Main office

Hope Family Trust
Unit 1
Beaver Centre
Selinas Lane
DAGENHAM
Essex

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERSONS THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY(A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND / OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY (B) RELIEVING PERSONS LIVING IN THE UK WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED. (C) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVISION OF HEALTH SUPPORT, WATER, SANITATION, EMERGENCY RELIEF, ADVANCEMENT OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PEACE, RECONCILIATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEREIN. (D) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES AND TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, SUPPORTED BY CHURCHES IN BARKING

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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