HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK

Registered charity 1117446 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HANDS @ WORK IN AFRICA UK, HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK LIMITED

The charitable purposes are, for the benefit of people in Africa, by such charitable means as the trustees in their absolute discretion think fit: To relieve poverty To relieve suffering To promote good health and increase life expectancy To advance education and training To promote any other charitable purpose

Objects

3. The charitable purposes are, for the benefit of people in Africa, by such charitable means as the trustees in their absolute discretion think fit: 3.1 To relieve poverty;3.2 To relieve suffering;3.3 To promote good health and increase life expectancy3.4 To advance education and training3.5 To promote any other charitable purpose

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income surplus of £4,476 for the year, with total income of £363,798 and total expenditure of £359,322. Unrestricted reserves increased to £19,928, which the trustees stated exceed the minimum level necessary to meet obligations. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hands at Work in Africa UK (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Westmancottchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ann-Marie Agyeman
• Christopher Poulsom
• NICHOLAS JAMES LAWRENCE
• REV DAVID ELLIS NEWSOME
• Teresa Ann Clarke CBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Dudley · Eswatini · Malawi · Mozambique · Nigeria · South Africa · Suffolk · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION.

• HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION income £123k
• HI-HAND income £414k
• THE HANDS AROUND THE WORLD CHARITABLE TRUST income £192k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• AFRICAN HEALTH POLICY NETWORK income £153k
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.