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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Raise Your Hands

Raise Your Hands is a registered charity (number 1174956) based in London, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Christopher Kirkland since 2017. Latest income £962k (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £962k (2024)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.raiseyourhands.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£962k£955k
  • 2023£869k£774k
  • 2022£886k£545k
Earlier years
  • 2021£293k£280k
  • 2020£281k£425k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL CHARITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PRIMARILY BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHARITIES BENEFITING AND WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, BY MEANS OF PROVIDING GRANTS AND OTHER SUPPORT AND ADVICE.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Other Charitable Purposes 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£962k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.0 in 2020

3 from 3 in 2022
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1174956
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 03 Oct 2017
Contact on the register
07967039743 · info@raiseyourhands.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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