RAISE YOUR HANDS

Registered charity 1174956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £95,030, bringing unrestricted reserves to £420,414. This surplus exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £316,074, which is calculated as one year's worth of minimum grants plus three months of staff costs and a buffer. The trustees plan to reduce this surplus by increasing grant sizes and the number of supported charities in 2024.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit).

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

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

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

Trustees

• 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

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TWO HANDS CHARITABLE TRUST.

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• HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION income £123k
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• MUSLIM HANDS income £33.4m
• HGH UNITED HANDS income £106k
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