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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 11
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

HOPE AND VISION COMMUNITIES

Hope and vision will carry out its purposes, for the public benefit, by offering supported housing to those in recovery from addiction who have completed a residential treatment programme. We will be doing this by offering accomodation with 1-1 key working, house groups, structured cleaning rotas, and 12 step fellowship meetings. Hope and Vision Communities has a Christian ethos.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/03/23£152£61£91n/a
31/03/22£66£54£12n/a
31/03/21£25£8£17n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.hopeandvision.org.uk

tony@hopeandvision.org.uk

07887746614

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Reading,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Lloyds Bank Foundation£75,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,924
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£13,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hope and Vision Communities
£75,000 05/07/2023
36
Unrestricted grant over 3 years towards the core costs of Hope and Vision Communities
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Hope and Vision Communities
£8,500 23/06/2023
12
Personal Livery Giving Award 2023 (unrestricted)
National Lottery Community Fund - The Prisoner and The Judge
£9,924 21/04/2023
The funding will be used to increase key worker sessions and social events for men recovering from alcohol and/or drug addition. The project aims to create a stronger more supportive community for men going through long-term sobriety.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 29/03/2023
Core costs
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Hope and Vision Communities
£5,000 11/10/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 03/09/2021
The Journey Continues in Fellowship and Community
National Lottery Community Fund - HOPE AND VISION COMMUNITIES
£10,000 05/03/2021
12
The funding will be used to provide safe and supported move-on accommodation to people leaving residential treatment for addiction. The project aims to empower people to grow in confidence self esteem and worth.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • HHJ PETER ROSS (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • JENNY MARGARET SURTEES Appointed: 2020
  • JAMES PHILIP SIMON ISHERWOOD Appointed: 2023
  • JAMES TOTTMAN Appointed: 2023
  • TRACEY ANN HANCOCK Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/09/2020, number: 1191323
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

Hope and Vision Communities
The Coach House
Bear Lane
Hare Hatch
Reading
RG10 9XR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION FROM DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION BY THE PROVISION OF SAFE ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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