On March 5th 1994 a legacy of £5000 was left by Jim Ward to Bob Parsons to help disadvantaged children. It took 20 minutes for Jim to change his Will, but little did he know that these 20 minutes would lead to the forming of a children’s charity that has now, fifteen years on, assisted hundreds of thousands of needy disadvantaged children around the world.

HOPE was founded to fill the gaps of the larger charities to assist disabled and disavantaged children in the UK and developing countries. It was also founded to be a low cost no frills charity. Last year 100% of all public donations went to projects.

It takes less than 20 minutes to fit an artificial limb that changed the life of Pradeep, a six year old child landmine victim.

It took less than 20 minutes to bring a smile and laughter to 150 disabled and disadvantaged children’s faces on their first ever day trip to the pantomime!