HEATH HANDS

Registered charity 1173419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Heath Hands is a conservation and community charity that helps conserve and protect the green spaces of Hampstead Heath, Kenwood and Highgate Wood through practical work, education, ecological monitoring and public engagement activities. We also help deliver public and community outreach programmes across our green spaces.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are (1) to help, engaging staff and volunteers, to conserve, protect and enhance Hampstead Heath, the Kenwood Estate, Highgate Wood, Keats House and such other areas as the charity trustees may determine from time to time (the ?Relevant Open Spaces?); (2) to advance education by encouraging learning in conserving, protecting and enhancing the environment of the Relevant Open Spaces for the benefit of the members of the CIO and for the benefit of the general public; and (3) to help the bodies responsible for the Relevant Open Spaces to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare and recreation for the members of the CIO, the local community and the general public by improving their health, wellbeing and conditions of life.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £12,807 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total receipts of £141,862 against total payments of £154,670. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £61,056, which the trustees consider prudent given their policy to retain reserves covering 12 months of core operational costs.

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 5 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation for supporting our projects with an unrestricted grant in 2025.” (source page)
• D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust — “We’re grateful to the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust for funding our youth conservation volunteering programmes, particularly those focusing …” (source page)
• National Lottery Awards for All — “Many thanks to the National Lottery Awards for All for supporting our youth and SEN school sessions on Hampstead Heath, including our Outrea…” (source page)
• Young Camden Foundation — “We are grateful to Young Camden Foundation to have funded several of our youth-related projects over the years. They are currently funding o…” (source page)
• City of London Corporation Central Grants — “We are grateful to the City of London Corporation’s Central Grants Scheme for supporting our new volunteering and nature engagement project …” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Lorraine Chapmanchair
• Andrew John Morgan
• Diana Rosemary McLean
• Gregory Percy Jones
• John Umberto Arnoldi
• Jonathan Richard Charles Plimley
• Monica Dawes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jane Williams
• Shilpa Bhargav Agashe
• Simon Edward Cranmer
• Stuart Elliott Clark
• William Patrick LoSasso

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · Haringey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAND IN HAND FOR AID AND DEVELOPMENT.

• HAND IN HAND FOR AID AND DEVELOPMENT income £22.7m
• HGH UNITED HANDS income £76k
• HELPING HANDS (RHYMNEY CANCER SELF HELP GROUP) income £74k
• HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY PROJECT income £411k
• HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES income £110k
• HANDS OF HOPE income £267k

Side by side with its peers

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