A child sexual abuse charity is set to close after it was overwhelmed with inquiries following the publicity around abuse by TV presenter Jimmy Savile.

The charity, Healing Our Past Experiences (Hope), reported that it was facing financial difficulties in January but has now confirmed that it will shut at the beginning of June.

It had hoped to win money to keep going from the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust, but received just £5,000.

Hope runs specialist counselling and psychotherapy services for people who experienced sexual abuse as a child, as well as drop in centres, self help and support groups and training workshops.

A spokeswoman from the charity told Civil Society News that an associated community interest company, 141 Training and Therapy, is expected to continue to run for the foreseeable future.

Volunteers also plan to continue to run the drop-in centre for victims of sexual abuse at least two days a week.

In the last 18 months the charity, which was founded in 2003 and had helped 150 to 200 people a year, had reduced its number of staff to eight volunteers.

The charity’s founder, Pauline Carruthers, had complained to the BBC that the charity had not received a response for its grant application from the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust.

The Trust was set up after the TV personality’s death and said it would distribute funds to charities impacted by an increase in workload following revelations over Savile’s criminal offences.

A spokeswoman from Hope confirmed that the charity had received a £5,000 grant from the Trust this morning.

Scarborough-based Hope said that following abuse claims against Savile, who had a home and was buried in the area, and sexual abuse claims made against the town’s former mayor Peter Jaconelli, the number of people approaching the charity had almost doubled.

The charity’s most recently filed accounts, for the year ending December 2013, show an income of just over £200,000.