HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY TRUST
Registered charity 1093415 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Helping Hands Advice Centre offers free advice, support, advocacy and practical support. Based in Oadby & Wigston we run daily drop in surgeries across the Borough and work alongside local foodbanks and community hubs to ensure our face to face service is as accessible as possible. We provided both form filling and tribunal support as required. We work with various partner organisations.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity achieved a net incoming resource surplus of £394,237 for the year. However, the trustees report that current free reserves are below the level outlined in their reserves policy, which targets at least £25,000 plus a £5,000 contingency fund. The trustees intend to recover this shortfall from the end of the year, with a full reserve position stabilised within the next three years.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“Currently the reserves are below the level outlined in the policy and it is the intention to recover this situation from the end of this year, with a full reserve position stabilised within the next 3 years”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- HOWES, Simon Robert — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
- JOHAL, Ranjoth Singh — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
- BALDWIN, Anita — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
- MULLA, Nazma — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
- FLINDERS, Claire Louise — director, appointed 14/10/2022on trustee list
- SUMNER, Nicholas John — director, appointed 14/10/2021on trustee list
- SWAN, Nigel — director, appointed 03/11/2011on trustee list
- GREEN, Raymond, Mr. — director, appointed 05/05/2011on trustee list
- GILL, Leslie Grayson, Reverend — director, appointed 19/12/2001on trustee list
- THORNTON, Lesley — director, appointed 19/12/2001on trustee list
Official officers record.
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (30/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (26/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- NIGEL SWANchair
- Anita Baldwin
- Claire Flinders
- LESLEY THORNTON
- Nazma Mulla
- Nicholas John Sumner
- RAYMOND GREEN
- REVEREND LESLIE GRAYSON GILL · trustee of 1 other charity
- Ranjoth Singh Johal
- Simon Howes Mr
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Leicestershire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net incoming resource surplus of £394,237 for the year. However, the trustees report that current free reserves are below the level outlined in their reserves policy, which targets at least £25,000 plus a £5,000 contingency fund. The trustees intend to recover this shortfall from the end of the year, with a full reserve position stabilised within the next three years. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY TRUST as a grant recipient include THE CARLTON HAYES MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY, R. DAPHNE PLUNKET CHARITABLE TRUST, KADWA PATIDAR SAMAJ (UK) LIMITED.
Known funders
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