Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

HCPT (HOSANNA HOUSE AND CHILDREN'S PILGRIMAGE TRUST) 

Mission:

Changing lives through pilgrimage, sharing Gods gifts of love, friendship and joy
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £7,057,284 available, equivalent to 33 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Comment by the Charity:
    Spending and income was variable, and reserves larger than normal, during the Covid-19 pandemic when HCPT was unable to run its pilgrimages. Due to an administrative error our 2022 accounts were filed a month late with the Charity Commission; during this time we were unable to access the Charity Commission’s new digital filing systems.

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
31/10/22*£1,997£2,557£-560£383£7,285£7,05733.1153,800
31/10/21£1,796£1,377£419£302£8,038£7,78067.8153,800
31/10/20£1,702£1,600£102£337£6,966£6,67750.1203,800
31/10/19£4,753£4,553£199£575£6,643£6,31016.6273,800
31/10/18£5,116£5,100£16£499£6,390£6,06714.3253,000
31/10/17£4,102£4,442£-340£547£6,486£6,25016.9230
31/10/16£6,180£5,266£915£369£6,647£6,34314.5250
31/10/15£5,354£4,091£1,263£414£5,499£5,15115.1250
31/10/14£4,509£4,218£291£420£4,218£3,88511.1220
31/10/13£4,474£4,885£-411£437£3,922£3,6048.9220
31/10/12£5,505£4,911£594£484£4,333£4,0189.8200
31/10/11£4,390£4,396£-6£463£3,738£3,4649.5200
31/10/10£4,626£5,018£-393£410£3,744£3,5658.5200
31/10/09£4,851£5,090£-239£447£4,137£3,8989.2200
31/10/08£4,909£4,566£343£391£4,376£4,19211200
31/10/07£4,509£4,266£243£366£4,033£3,85010.8110
31/10/06£4,362£4,341£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/05£4,093£3,930£163£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/04£4,315£4,209£107£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 27.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 16.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 33.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3
Asset Split ?
Established: 44 years
(51 years as a company)

www.hcpt.org.uk

hq@hcpt.org.uk

01788564646

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What it does
Offering children and adults with disabilities pilgrimage holidays to Lourdes, France.
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • France, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How do they operate?

Easter pilgrimages

Objectives: A week away from home, which is often life-changing, to a very special place

Intervention period: Easter week in Lourdes with a pilgrimage group (one of 100+ HCPT pilgrimage groups in Lourdes at the same time), bookended by further time in the UK spent with their group

Beneficiaries: Disabled and disadvantaged children and young people, 8 to 18 years old

Location: The pilgrimage is to Lourdes in France; pilgrimage groups are from around the UK

Description: Every Easter, 1,000 disabled and disadvantaged children and young people enjoy a life changing pilgrimage holiday in Lourdes in the south of France. They stay in hotels close to the shrine and are supported by volunteer helpers, nurses and priests.

Summer pilgrimages

Objectives: A week away from home, which is often life-changing, to a very special place

Intervention period: A week over the summer in Lourdes with a pilgrimage group, bookended by further time in the UK spent with their group

Beneficiaries: Disabled and disadvantaged people of all ages

Location: The pilgrimage is to HCPT's Hosanna House, near Lourdes in France; pilgrimage groups are UK wide

Description: Hosanna House is an attractive and tranquil home-from-home in Bartrès near Lourdes. There are spectacular views of the Pyrenees from nearly every bedroom. Each Summer more than 1,000 people enjoy the house, its chapel and other fully accessible facilities, and its proximity to the shrine of Lourdes.

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-67
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/10/1980, number: 281074
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/1973, number: 01095198
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 28 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FLAME TRUST FUND on 06/03/2020
  • Asset transfer in from HHLG - HEATH HOSPITAL LOURDES GROUP on 17/03/2022
  • Asset transfer in from JOHN AND MARGARET GALVIN TRUST FUND on 14/04/2023
Main office

H C P T
Oakfield Park
32 Bilton Road
Rugby
CV22 7HQ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE TAKING OF, OR ASSISTANCE IN THE TAKING OF, DISABLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS ON PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES OR SUCH OTHER PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE AS THE CHARITY MAY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE WITH THE PURPOSE OF ENRICHING THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase

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