About

In 1974 New Hope began as a Missionary Training Centre, led by Pastor Simon Cameron. In 1989, Pastor Cameron suffered through major surgery on his back and leg for skin cancer. The operation was so serious that for weeks afterward he was in too much pain even to lie down. His wife Wendy had satellite television installed to give him something to do in the small hours while he sat up awake at night, in far too much pain to sleep.

On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, signifying the end of the Eastern/Western European divide, and soon afterward the first western journalists were allowed into Eastern Europe, and the first pictures came back from Romania. Wide awake from the pain, Pastor Cameron watched in horror as the pictures and films were shown of children living in the most horrendous conditions imaginable, and felt a pain in his heart far worse than the physical pain in his back. He decided then and there that he had to help those people, that we ALL had to help those people. He emptied his cupboards of every tin of food he could find, and at the next Church meeting, informed everyone he was going to Romania.

And so in January 1990 the New Hope Trust began its humanitarian work, focusing in Eastern Europe. The Trust provides emergency relief and ongoing supplies of humanitarian aid, particularly to the orphan children of Romania and Moldova - click here to read more about the need in Moldova.

The growth of the humanitarian work over the last 20 years, and indeed the generosity of the North East of Scotland, has resulted in the continual expansion of the Trust. Our trucks collect donated goods across the whole of the North East of Scotland.

We also have a 24,000 sq. foot warehouse we use to sort and store the myriad items the North East of Scotland so graciously donates. The lower floor we use to resell household goods, furniture and textiles that we cannot send abroad, funneling the profits into our humanitarian endeavours. This along with the fact we use our own trucks to deliver furniture bought at the Barn provides a unique and popular service to the people of the North East. We also run a Charity Shop in Aberdeen, selling household goods, textiles, bric-a-brac and the occasional small item of furniture. Outside our retail outlet we also host a range of recycling services, taking in everything from plastics and waste paper to textiles and glass bottles.

The New Hope Trust also has first class conferencing facilities offering everything from Board Room settings to Seminar & Large Conference options. These facilities can be hired at very competitive rates for training courses, seminars, speeches - whatever your needs are. We offer various catering options for these events and equipment hire. We aim to make the experience as pleasurable as possible for the client.

And the best part of everything we do? Every pound, every penny of profit we make goes directly into funding our humanitarian projects in Eastern Europe. With every piece of furniture you donate, every household item you buy from the Barn, every empty bottle you put in our recycling bins, every seminar you organise with us, and every cup of coffee and tasty bakers piece you buy at the Coffee House, you are directly helping us to save children from some of the most horrendous conditions you could possibly imagine.

There are no words to convey the horrors we have witnessed in Romania and Moldova, and no words to accurately convey our deepest gratitude for every contribution you make, no matter which part of The New Hope Trust it has been through.



The New Hope Trust is a Registered Charity 276520 in England and Wales, and Registered Charity SC040458 in Scotland