The Hoops Foundation

Analysis

The Hoops Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in October 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02631845). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending May 2025, The Hoops Foundation reported income of £251k and spending of £300k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income fell from £279k to £251k (-10%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Hoops Foundation sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Halton Speak Out CIO (£251k), Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted (£251k) and The Centre, West Cumbria Ltd (£251k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.