THE HANDS AROUND THE WORLD CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1097626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To help children and young people disadvantaged through poverty, disability or otherwise vulnerable, in partnership with locally-managed centres in Africa and India. We also support well-prepared volunteers to offer practical help, skill-sharing and friendship.

Objects

For the public benefit, the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial or other disadvantage, in particular but not exclusively by:The promotion of education; The support of locally managed centres offering practical help, skill sharing, support and friendship.

Area of benefit: EITHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £143,177 for the year, with total expenditure of £332,201 significantly exceeding income of £191,687. The deficit was covered by drawing down on funds from previous years, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £109,361 at year-end. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, supported by unrestricted cash balances of £104,421 and future funding projections.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Heidi Marie Sydorchair
• David Steiner
• Dorothy Joanne Ballantine · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL HADEN
• Margaret Catherine Hickland
• Philippa Moore
• Simon Mukwaya
• Therese Molloy
• WENDY SUTTON-PRYCE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Benin · India · Kenya · Rwanda · Uganda · Zambia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HANDS @ WORK IN AFRICA UK.

• HANDS @ WORK IN AFRICA UK income £341k
• TWO HANDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
• HEALTH AND NUTRITION DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (HANDS) INTERNATIONAL income £176k
• MUSLIM HANDS income £33.4m
• HI-HAND income £414k
• HELP A NEIGHBOUR IN DISTRESS SCHEME (HANDS) income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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