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Registered charity (CIO) · Norwich

Hopestead

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (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
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England
Website
hopestead.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£657k£530k
  • 2021£390k£123k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF HOMELESSNESS BY THE PREVENTION, REDUCTION AND ALLEVIATION OF HOMELESSNESS AND THE CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS AND BY THE CREATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PRIMARILY IN BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EAST OF ENGLAND BY ENGAGING IN THE FOLLOWING: • THE MAKING OF GRANTS;• THE PROVISION AND DELIVERY OF SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS IN NEED;• ENGAGING IN PARTNERSHIPS WITH ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT, REDUCE, RELIEVE OR ALLEVIATE HOMELESSNESS AND ITS CAUSES AND TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES; AND• BY ANY OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

2.2y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 2

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.9 in 2021

3 from 3 in 2022
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1190324
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 09 Jul 2020
Contact on the register
08081699297 · lucy.parish@hopestead.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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