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Registered charity (CIO) · Twickenham

Help A Neighbour in Distress Scheme (Hands)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £81k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Disability
Where
Richmond Upon Thames
Website
www.handscaregroup.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£81k£88k
  • 2024£1.6m£72k
  • 2023£17k£44k
Earlier years
  • 2022£18k£40k
  • 2021£42k£56k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE, WITH THE AID OF LOCAL VOLUNTEERS, PERSONS IN NEED OF PRACTICAL HELP AND SUPPORT IN TWICKENHAM AND ST MARGARET'S IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES

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.

5 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Religious Activities 2Education/training 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£1.6m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

2
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
1185942
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 22 Oct 2019
Contact on the register
02088913346 · info@handscaregroup.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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