Hope City Furniture

Analysis

Hope City Furniture is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derby. It was registered in December 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Hope City Furniture reported income of £60k and spending of £46k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £39k to £60k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 236%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hope City Furniture sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Helen Margaret Owen Foundation (£60k), Motivation and Learning Trust (£60k) and Christ Apostolic Church (Victory Centre) (£60k).