Registered charity (CIO) · Sunderland
Hopespring
- 5 trustees
- Income £2.4m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
- Where
- Newcastle Upon Tyne City, Sunderland, Gateshead, North Tyneside
- Website
- www.hopespring.info (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.4m£2.1m
- 2024£1.9m£1.8m
- 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£1.0m
- 2021£791k£738k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 14% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN AGED 11 TO 16 WHO IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THOSE ARE DEEMED TO BE VULNERABLE AND EMOTIONALLY/BEHAVIOURALLY COMPLEX, WHO ARE AT RISK OF, OR HAVE ALREADY BEEN, EXCLUDED FROM SCHOOL OR FROM ALTERNATIVE PROVISIONS IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.(2) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PREVENTION AND/OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SUPPORTED ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS LEAVING THE CARE OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITY.
Grants received
3 grants · £158,601 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
- Trusthouse Charitable Foundation · £70,000
- The Ballinger Charitable Trust · £45,000
- CAF · £43,601
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Lois Gott Chair since 2019
- Dr Chikezie Okike since 2019
- Dr Myra Hannah Oredayo Belmont Herbert since 2019
- Dr Rachel Bisset since 2023
- Joanne Dunnett since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Lois Gott Chair since 2019
- Dr Chikezie Okike since 2019
- Dr Myra Hannah Oredayo Belmont Herbert since 2019
- Joanne Dunnett since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Lois Gott Chair since 2019
- Dr Myra Hannah Oredayo Belmont Herbert since 2019
- Dr Rachel Bisset since 2023
- Joanne Dunnett since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Dr Chikezie Okike since 2019
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1183771
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Jun 2019
- Contact on the register
- 01915674227 · office@hopespringcharity.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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