Hope Church South Bedfordshire Trust

Analysis

Hope Church South Bedfordshire Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dunstable. It was registered in May 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Hope Church South Bedfordshire Trust reported income of £31k and spending of £28k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £53k to £31k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hope Church South Bedfordshire Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include W W Prescott's Charity (£31k), Working for the Wild (£31k) and The Shoebury Ark (£31k).