Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY TRUST 

Helping Hands offers advice, support, advocacy and practical help on any issue.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 22 years

www.helpinghandscentre.co.uk

amurgatroyd@helpinghandscentre.co.uk

07969959232

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£195£210£-15n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£175£172£3n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£205£156£48n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20*£133£107£26n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/19£128£186£-58n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/18£153£117£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£69£66£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£116£110£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£157£153£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£105£115£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£66£66£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£62£63£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£52£58£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£77£88£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£93£109£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£100£102£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£103£99£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£107£80£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£67£67£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£68£69£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 4 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leicestershire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£266,627
DCMS£42,324
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Henry Smith Charity£10,000
CAF£3,975
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping Hands Community Trust - Development Plan
£256,627 25/08/2022
The funding will be used to support the development of the organisation by increasing its capacity to provide a wide range of advice and support to people experiencing a crisis or at risk of a ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 12/11/2021
Help for the Needy
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£10,000 23/09/2021
12
towards one year's running costs of an organisation providing financial and benefits advice and advocacy and support for vulnerable people from disadvantaged communities in Leicester.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,324 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
CAF - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£3,975 08/06/2020
3
Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Marketing Apprentice
£10,000 23/08/2019
12
The funding will help the group to use digital marketing to reach out to service users. The project aims to help people reach their potential.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£10,000 12/12/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing support, advice and advocacy for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Leicestershire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£10,000 08/06/2017
12
towards one year's salary of the Senior Complex Caseworker at a project providing support, advice and advocacy for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Leicester
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£7,500 03/12/2015
towards one year's salary of the Senior Complex Caseworker at a project providing support, advice and advocacy for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Leicester
National Lottery Community Fund - Seamless professional advice tailored to meet public needs
£257,859 19/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project will see Helping Hands Community Trust (HHCT) become the lead of a eight organisation partnership to improve the free provision of independent, professional and specialist ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£10,000 14/03/2013
towards one year's running costs of an advice centre in a disadvantaged area of Leicestershire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helping Hands Community Trust
£10,000 14/03/2012
towards one year's the salary of the Service Manager at a drop in advice centre in Leicestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Poverty and Deprivation Alleviation
£10,000 05/03/2010
12
This Leicester charity will use an award to improve their facilities and training provision, to improve the service they provide to local people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-80
  • NIGEL SWAN (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Business Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/08/2002, number: 1093415
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/12/2001, number: 04343050
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 17 days late, AR12: 8 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FRIENDLY FIVE TRANSPORT SCHEME on 30/09/2022
Main office

Helping Hands Advice Centre
66-68 Blaby Road
South Wigston
WIGSTON
LE18 4SD

Objectives

1) TO ALLEVIATE HARDSHIP AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE AREAS OF OADBY AND WIGSTON.II) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND TH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROVIDE ADVICE AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION AND FOR ANY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TTHE AREAS OF OADBY AND WIGSTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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