Registered charity · Watford
Watford NEW Hope Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £3.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- John FordChair
- Andrew John RobertsonTrustee · since 2019
- Annette Susan ReeveTrustee · since 2025
- Claire Elizabeth LoganTrustee · since 2025
- David Stephen EvansTrustee · since 2026
- Melanie Jane SillsTrustee · since 2023
- Samuel Charles Patrick MeldrumTrustee · since 2025
- Timothy William Robson OBETrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Hertfordshire
- Website
- www.newhope.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Watford NEW Hope Trust
- Registered
- 2000
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.0m£3.6m
- 2024£3.6m£2.7m
- 2023£2.5m£2.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.0m£2.2m
- 2021£2.4m£2.4m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 40% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO MAINTAIN ENHANCE AND PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY ANY MEANS THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR THE PEOPLES IN THE AREA OF WATFORD HERTFORDSHIRE THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION MATERIAL FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AS DO NOT FALL UNDER ANY OF THE PRECEDING OBJECTS
Grants received
16 grants · £212,171 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £110,000 (4 grants)
- Hertfordshire Community Foundation · £47,015 (9 grants)
- The Joseph Rank Trust · £45,000
- Crowdfunder · £5,156
- Quartet Community Foundation · £5,000
Most recent
Board analysis
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.
8 trustees on the board
- John Ford Chair
- Andrew John Robertson since 2019
- Annette Susan Reeve since 2025
- Claire Elizabeth Logan since 2025
- David Stephen Evans since 2026
- Melanie Jane Sills since 2023
- Samuel Charles Patrick Meldrum since 2025
- Timothy William Robson OBE since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew John Robertson since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Andrew John Robertson since 2019
- Claire Elizabeth Logan since 2025
- David Stephen Evans since 2026
- Melanie Jane Sills since 2023
- Samuel Charles Patrick Meldrum since 2025
- Timothy William Robson OBE since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- John Ford Chair
- Annette Susan Reeve since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1080784
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 10TH APRIL 2000 as amended on 03 May 2019 as amended on 05 Dec 2013 as amended on 24 Mar 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 03969063 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01923210696 · info@newhope.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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