OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD

Registered charity 1121814 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relieve persons who are in need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused thereby in Sheffield and in such other parts of the United Kingdom as the Trustess may from time to time think fit.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN SHEFFIELD AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD - SOUTH YORKSHIRE

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £38 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £20,725. The trustees note that income has remained at a reasonable level and that the charity is grateful for ongoing support from local churches and individual donors. The free reserves stood at £20,725, which is above the stated policy target of £6,516.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN SIMON BENNETTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Brian James Gooch
• IAN MICHAEL PRESCOTT
• Martyn Edwards
• NICOLA PUGLIESE
• PHILIP IAN JOHNSON

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPEN HANDS TRUST (LEICESTER).

• OPEN HANDS TRUST (LEICESTER) income £566k
• OPEN HANDS COVENTRY income £346k
• POYNTON OPEN HANDS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £30k
• OPEN HANDS REIGATE income £28k
• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• TAPTONHOLME income £936k

Side by side with its peers

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