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Registered charity · Liverpool

Liverpool Hope University

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £57m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens and more
Website
www.hope.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Liverpool Hope University
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£57m£58m
  • 2024£57m£58m
  • 2023£58m£56m
Earlier years
  • 2022£58m£54m
  • 2021£55m£49m
Charitable objects

(A) THE HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS INTENDING TO ENTER, OR ENGAGED IN, THE TEACHING PROFESSION:(B) THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, OF ECUMENICAL IDEALS, AND OF THE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE PROMOTION OF THE GOSPEL:(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BY RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND LEARNING.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.1y
average years in governance
11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 15Education/training 15Accommodation/housing 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 18Finance 8Business services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£56.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

37.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 26.7 in 2021

644 from 616 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
8%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1060579
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 NOVEMBER 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 24 SEPTEMBER 1997,13 OCTOBER 1997, 16 FEBRUARY 2001, 20TH APRIL 2005 AND CERTIFICATE UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 AUGUST 2005.
Companies House
Company number 03285547 · Active
Contact on the register
01512913233 · leyshoj@hope.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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