HELPING HANDS HALIFAX

Registered charity 225829 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CALDERDALE SPASTICS SOCIETY, HALIFAX AND DISTRICT SPASTICS SOCIETY, SCOPE IN CALDERDALE

Provides activities and facilities for persons with disabilities

Objects

A) TO PROVIDE, CAUSE TO BE PROVIDED OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE TREATMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND WELFARE OR SUFFERERS FROM CREBRAL PALSY AND ITS ALLIED CONDITIONS. B) TO MAKE GRANTS IN RELIEF OF POVERTY TO SUFFERS FROM CEREBRAL PALSY, THEIR PARENTS, AND THOSE CARING FOR THEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £24,082 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £50,785 to £26,703. The charity is in the process of winding down, having closed its centre and transferred its property and shop operations to another charity. The remaining funds are scheduled to be transferred to the receiving charity in 2026.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Paul Knox
• Malcolm Pickles
• Sally Shacklock

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

Operates in: Calderdale

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).