Hope Community Foundation

Analysis

Hope Community Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lisburn. It was registered in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04489582). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Hope Community Foundation reported income of £398k and spending of £403k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £310k to £398k (+28%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Hope Community Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Disability Advice Service (East Suffolk) (£398k), Selsey Community Forum (£399k) and Autistic Girls Network (£398k).