HOPE HOME (THAILAND) UK
Registered Charity Number -1199573
HOPE HOME (THAILAND) UK
A Charitable Incorporated Organisation
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
Hope Home (Thailand) UK 13B Golden Cross Lane Catshill, Bromsgrove
B610LQ
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Independent Examiner’s Report
The income for the year was below the threshold for an independent examiners report, thus, one has not been requested or carried out.
Trustees
Chair: Rev Raymond Peter Cook (Appointed 07/07/2022)
Trustee: Ian Bowers (Appointed 25/09/2022)
Rachel Kate Marshall (Appointed 11/07/2022) Jacolyn Ray Morgan (Appointed 07/07/2022)
Susan Elizabeth Marks (Appointed 01/11/2024)
Charitable Objectves
The objects of the CIO are the relief of financial hardship and protection of good health of orphaned or relinquished children and young people with special needs who are receiving care from Hope Home Social Welfare Home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and from other such associations, trusts, societies or corporations as are established for charitable purposes only, and of special needs children resident in the community, through prayer, practical advice and grant funding.
Contents
Trustees Report Page 3-9 Statement of Financial Activities Page 10 Balance Sheet Page 11 Notes to the Financial Statements Page 12-13
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Trustees Report 2025
The Trustees present their annual report together with the financial statements of the charity to 31[st] December 2025.
Actvites Carried Out To Further The Charity’s Purposes and Public Beneft
IES Hope Home continues as a registered Social Welfare Home for children and young people with special needs who are orphaned /relinquished and require residential care or are able to live in community in foster-care family settings or are living with their biological families. The governance of Hope Home, and the Thai management of Hope Home is under Baan Sabaay Foundation, which is a Christian foundation supporting social and spiritual care for vulnerable people groups. Hope Home is based in Chiang Mai, just outside of the main city in a semi-urban area.
Report on Actvites for 2025 at Residental Facility and in the local community
Hope Home Report
January to December 2025
Hope Home continues as a registered Social Welfare Home for children and young people with special needs who are orphaned / relinquished to the state and require residential care, or are able to live in community in foster-care family settings or are living with their biological families. The governance of Hope Home, and the Thai management of Hope Home is under Baan Sabaay Foundation, which is a Christian foundation supporting social and spiritual care for vulnerable people groups. Hope Home is based in Chiang Mai, just outside of the main city in a semi-urban area.
Residential Facility :
Currently Hope Home has 7 residential children living in an adapted house to be as wheelchair friendly as possible. The children have all been living with us for at least four years some for over 15 years. Their ages range from 5 years to 29 years old, and mixed disabilities covering autism, Down’s, brain injury, cerebral palsy, blindness and severe epilepsy. All children are given individualized care according to their needs. This includes all basic activities of daily living care – good nutrition in formulas adapted for each child for oral and enteral feeding, therapies (physical, occupational, speech etc.), good hygiene care, social and educational skill teaching, spiritual care and medical care and last but not least, play therapy. The medical care needs for some of the children are quite complex but all staff are trained in individual skills as
appropriate –these include nasogastric and Gtube feeding, bowel care, lung care such as nebulizing, suctioning, ambu-bagging and home ventilator care, as well as care of a child with a tracheotomy. The staff do incredibly well especially as there are language barriers, and many of our staff have not completed education in their home country before coming to work in Thailand. This period we have been privileged to have a team from the USA come with Physiotherapy professors and students, and they worked with us for a few days, and helped us progress with our individualized therapy plans. The government physiotherapy
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department has also been visiting us at home rather than going to the centre which is of great benefit to their students to actually work with the children in their home community setting, but also for us since all the staff get to see their therapy methods, and also some of the children who are not able to attend the clinic have received support. In September also two children and staff were able to attend a 4 day course on a specialized Japanese therapy form and this was greatly appreciated and will help a lot. More training will follow on this at a later date.
The children have complex communication and educational needs and a mission worker at the home is active in enhancing all communication forms, using AAC and producing all materials required, and training the staff in their use. For the vocal and non-vocal children, we are seeing very positive and encouraging results in things like reduced behavioural problems since the children feel understood and listened to, as well as the wider community trying to engage with the children better. We are trying to encourage the schools they attend to also embrace their methods of communication, but this is quite a challenge. In this time period we were pleased to have a team from abroad come to share their skills on AAC too.
The home runs as near to a family set up as is able, but also has established routines and schedules of care which help the children and the adults, but flexibility and adaptability is also encouraged. In brief we do have a lot of fun, and a lot of learning through fun.
Since January 2025 we have resumed attending Thai church once a month with all staff and children. The church we attend is quite formal and part of the wider Presbyterian denomination in Thailand. The staff and children do very well through the service and the congregation, quite elderly, and incredibly welcoming of us. We stay for special meals after church, but not every time we attend since this makes it quite a long period for both the active inquisitive children, and those who are restricted in mobility find it a long time in their chairs too. It has been really special and a privilege too to resume attending church again regularly, and the staff, mostly unchurched, are very responsive and attentive too.
The morning routine at Hope Home includes everyone, staff and children together for a time of reflecting how each person is feeling, what is happening in that day and then prayer and bible reading together-all the staff and children seem to enjoy this time and becoming increasingly engaged in the process. In this year we are also encouraging the children to learn a bible verse each few weeks, with actions as well, and they and the staff are doing very well as remembering them. One Sunday at Thai church we will need to present a special song etc. during the taking up of the offering, and we are hoping to have the children recite their Bible verses then, as well as a tuneful song for sure.
This morning gathering is then followed by physiotherapy for the children either at home or at outside government centres. The afternoons are joint learning activities tailored to the needs and abilities of each child. Two of the residential children attend school and a further child from family support travels to school with our children. Two children in supported family foster care in local community also attend the same special needs school. The evenings are relaxing inside and outside play times as much as is possible.
The home was a rented home but was kindly donated to us a few years ago and is ‘owned’ by the Foundation we are registered under. Similarly, the land adjacent to the home has been purchased and developed into the community playground and garden. This too is registered under the Foundation and we are very grateful to supporters that enabled this purchase, notably a Foundation in Hong Kong among many others. The house and land are set aside as designated for use for care of special needs children and young people, even if, for any reason, Hope Home was no longer running. This will give longer term sustainability for special needs care in home/ community setting, whatever this looks like in the future.
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The development of the banana field into a well -equipped and accessible playground and garden area has taken place slowly over almost 2 years, but this period of January to October 2025 has been more decorative and functional. We appreciated the input of two people from the UK who are blessed with so many skills of art work and so much more. They helped us develop the garden beds area to be fully accessible and weather-shielded too. They also helped with pathway designs and pergolas to provide shade and areas of interest along the paths. We have also been well equipped with home- made garden toys and games which the children are loving. At the end of May we were all but complete on the plans we had envisaged and the area is fully functional and well used every day by the children. This has been a dream come true over many years of praying over this land and we look forward to seeing how God will use this for others in the future. During the latter part of this period, we have seen good growth in some of the things we planted and are reaping our own green vegetables, Thai peppers, sweetcorn and pumpkins. The hedge we planted round the football play area is now really looking like a hedge, and the grassy area for free ball play is now levelled well so that it is safe to run on. We love seeing all the children play outside, and their bike and scooter skills are improving greatly with the extra space.
The home is staffed with a high ratio intentionally, so that children receive one-on one care as much as is possible. The staff are often untrained and have not completed full education, and many come from Myanmar, but they are keen and able learners and bring a heart of compassion and a willingness to learn. The staff are overseen by the mission worker/ nurse at the home, and by the overall Thai management team too. The Thai manager tries to come in at least six times a year to encourage the staff through spiritual guidance, listening and just being a presence. We are very grateful for her quiet but meaningful input into the lives of each staff member. In this time period we have accepted three new staff members, two for the day work and one for night work since two people left for family reasons. The new staff are transitioning in well for which we are very grateful and they are good learners. We will reassess if a third staff member is needed to be replaced or if duties can be adjusted appropriately to run with one less staff member.
The community outreach aspect of Hope Home has increased in the last year, courtesy of our part time social worker who has a keen eye and huge heart of compassion for helping people, whilst at the same time being sensitive to the risks of disempowering families. We appreciate her wisdom and she steadfastly follows up visiting each family every month at least once. We currently regularly support over 10 families with material support (such as nutritional supplements, nappies, dried foods) as well as helping specifically with transport costs for hospital treatments and in various other ways. Our Thai manager also visits a further 5 families with special needs relatives and we are able to support them in a less regular way too at this point in time. It is hoped that early next year we will hold a training, fellowship event bringing together as many of the families as possible, and hold it in our community play area. In this way too families meet together and do not feel they are struggling on their own. We hope to be offering respite weekend care to one young lady at a time that is convenient for her mother and main care giver.
The running cost of Hope Home, residential and respite/ foster care has increased steadily in the last few years-due to increased cost of living, and fluctuating currency exchange rates (primary source of support is from the UK). The funds have always been sufficient and available at just the right time and we have been grateful for the generous donations in-kind from local people with rice, nappies, milks, vegetables, washing powder and so much more. We are very grateful to all our donors, whether individuals, churches or organisations for their support and the way it enables us to reach out into community for support of families with special needs children. We continue to seek alternative sources of funding, such as development funds from certain embassies, and will seek to find sources within Thailand so that Hope Home becomes more long-term sustainable.
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Foster care / Community care: -
One of the older foster children does regularly attend church and youth events every week and we are grateful for the renewed physicality of spiritual support. His youth group, from the international church, have held events at Hope Home and in May this year held a belated Easter party which was very special and well received. Two other teenagers are continuing in supported foster care in the community. They attend the same school as the Hope Home children so we are maintaining regular contact. The young lady in foster care with a Christian family is doing very well, and her foster mother is also doing well in handling the normal issues of teenagers. She regularly consults Hope Home for advice and we are happy to be a listening ear assuring her of the consistent and loving way she is raising this young lady. Currently she is spending school holiday times gaining work experience in a small restaurant and is learning new skills and greatly enjoying it.
One young lady who lives with a single mum and one sibling, attends Hope Home 6 days a week and attends the same school as ours. Her mum is therefore able to maintain a job and earn a living so that she can continue to be the family caregiver to this young lady. Hope Home has greatly appreciated the privilege to walk alongside this mum through many challenges, and to see her remain adamant that she will always love and care for her daughter however hard that becomes. This is how Hope Home seeks to grow and help families like this, keeping families together.
Progress / Challenges in the Children at Hope Home:
During this time period generally the children and young people had stayed well and hospital admission free. However, in August-September we had a time of every child and some of the staff with Dengue Fever. Some required hospitalisation, others we treated from home. This is a disease that can be vaccinated against, so once the required time period is past, we will obtain these. Their development in many ways has slowly increased for some, stayed static for others but overall, in a positive direction. The children were off on a long school break for over two months early in this period, and also in September/October which has been good for opportunities to provide education and behavioural training in a more consistent manner, but means that the attention is less for those who are receiving therapies at home usually. The return to school for a new school year is a welcome one overall, though the first few weeks back bring new behaviours and actions that are not always so welcome. This does settle thankfully. The physiotherapy centres are also closed for over two months in the year.
One of our girls who has unresolved epilepsy, despite multiple medications continues to face challenges. She has actually been more alert these last few months, which means more education/communication/social awareness training can take place. Extensive tests are not yet formally revealing the underlying cause, and her general development and quality of life is dropping overall unfortunately. She is however much healthier and gaining weight unlike last year so this is progress.
Probably the more rapid progress has been seen in our youngest child, with mobility problems following a severe head injury that left him hemi-plegic. He is now attending school one day a week, fully mobile in his own fashion, and very communicative. A year ago, a speech therapist told me that he would probably only ever have a vocabulary of about 7 words in his life due to the nature of his brain injury-he could not be more wrong. In Thai or English, he is extremely vocal and generally comprehensive too – he will do well. Unfortunately, he has ongoing small medical issues, especially weather related, but we trust these will resolve as he becomes older too.
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Future plans: We continue to be thankful for God’s provision of all our needs, through supporters and local visitors. We are increasingly aware that as our children get older, their needs change and mixed age residential care is not as appropriate or functional. We continue to seek God’s wisdom as to how to address this.
Thank you for the support and interest in the work of Hope Home. Hope Home staff, management and of course the children express their thanks for enabling us to be a family here, building each other up and striving to reach our highest potentials in all areas of life. We are partners in this together.
Submitted by
Miss Judith Cook
Nurse / manager at Hope Home, Social Welfare Home for Special Needs Children
December 2025
Rev Raymond Peter Cook Chairman of Trustees Date: 14[th] April 2026
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Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
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Balance Sheet for the Year Ended 31st December 2025
The financial statements were approved by the Board and signed on its behalf by:
Rev Raymond Cook Trustee Date: 14[th] April 2026
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1. Accounting Policies
1.1 Accounting Policies
The principal accounting policies adopted by the Charity, which is a public benefit entity, in the preparation of the accounts are as follows.
1.2 Basis of preparation
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the inclusion of charitable properties and fixed asset investments and investment properties at valuation.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (effective 1 January 2019) (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
These accounts are presented in pounds sterling and rounded to the nearest pound.
1.3 Going concern
The Trustees have prepared financial projections, taking into consideration the current economic conditions and have, at the time of approving these accounts, a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the accounts.
2 Income from Donations and Legacies
Unrestricted Funds Total Funds
2025
£ £ Donations and gifts 19,349.71 19,349.71 19,349.71 19,349.71
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3 Expenditure on Charitable Activities
Total funds 2025
Analysis £ Bank charges 224.50 Grants paid 20,700.00
20924.50
4 Cash at bank and in hand
Total funds 2025
£ Cash at bank and on hand 1,996.03 1,996.03
5 Charity funds
5.1 Details of material funds held and movements during the CURRENT
reporting period
Amount
5.2 Transfers between funds This Year
5.2 Transfers between funds This Year £ - Between unrestricted and restricted funds - Between endowment and restricted funds - Between endowment and unrestricted funds
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