RAISE YOUR HANDS

Registered charity 1174956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raise Your Hands runs innovative activities in order to support small charities working with children and young people in the UK.

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Latest income

£962k

Latest spending

£955k

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £581,054, which is 7% above the ideal policy target of £541,000. The charity reported a surplus of £7,907 for the year, with total incoming resources of £962,424 against total expenditure of £954,517.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Midnight Madness

“Midnight Madness was a huge success, raising the largest amount to date with £763,000 pledged. £575,973 of this arrived in 2024”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Raise Your Hands (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£962k

Total spending

£955k

Cost of raising funds

£197k

Reserves (reported)

£581k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Christopher Kirklandchair
ADAM LAWRENSON
Federica Silvia Cuce
Nicholas Burlington
Nicole McCarthy
Rossa Shanks

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£962k	£955k
31/12/2023	£869k	£774k
31/12/2022	£886k	£545k
31/12/2021	£293k	£280k
31/12/2020	£281k	£425k

Common questions

Is RAISE YOUR HANDS financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £581,054, which is 7% above the ideal policy target of £541,000. The charity reported a surplus of £7,907 for the year, with total incoming resources of £962,424 against total expenditure of £954,517. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds RAISE YOUR HANDS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RAISE YOUR HANDS as a grant recipient include THE TURNER-KIRK TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE TURNER-KIRK TRUST	FY2024	£23k
THE TURNER-KIRK TRUST	FY2025	£10k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ZOUQ FOUNDATION	1	—
YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATION	1	£68k
ZAIMAH	1	£30k
PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£10k
RANDEREE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£7k
RAFAH INTERNATIONAL	1	£7k
MUSLIM COMMUNITY & EDUCATION CENTRE (MCEC)	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HELP A NEIGHBOUR IN DISTRESS SCHEME (HANDS).

HELP A NEIGHBOUR IN DISTRESS SCHEME (HANDS) income £81k
TWO HANDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
THE RAISE UP FOUNDATION income £108k
HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION income £123k
OPEN HANDS income £137k
MUSLIM HANDS income £33.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RAISE YOUR HANDS	£962k	—	above	—	no doubt
HELP A NEIGHBOUR IN DISTRESS SCHEME (HANDS) FY2025	£81k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TWO HANDS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2023	£80k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE RAISE UP FOUNDATION FY2026	£108k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION FY2025	£123k	—	above	—	no doubt
OPEN HANDS FY2025	£137k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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