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Registered charity (CIO) · Birmingham

Hand in Hand for AID and Development

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £27m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where
Syria, Turkey
Website
www.hihfad.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hand in Hand for AID and Development
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£27m£29m
  • 2023£34m£32m
  • 2022£22m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2021£20m£21m
  • 2020£25m£20m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF CONFLICT, IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SYRIA, BY:(A)PROVIDING EMERGENCY RELIEF INCLUDING MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND ASSISTANCE, ASSISTANCE TO THOSE AFFECTED BY GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, CLEAN WATER, SHELTER AND FOOD;(B)SUPPORTING INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, HOST COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES AND IN THE UK;(C)PROVIDING SUPPORT TO PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES DIRECTED TO ASSISTING PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CONFLICT TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES;(D) HELPING TO REBUILD AND TO RESTORE INFRASTRUCTURE IN AREAS DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF CONFLICT.

Grants received

1 grant · £2,500 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

7 trustees on the board

8.6y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£27.1m latest income
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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

1149 from 1056 in 2020
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
1176805
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 23 Jan 2018
Companies House
Company number CE013020 · Active
Contact on the register
02084340500 · info@hihfad.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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