Helping Hands Community Trust

Analysis

Helping Hands Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in August 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04343050). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Helping Hands Community Trust reported income of £456k and spending of £413k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £175k to £456k (+160%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Hands Community Trust sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hearo Trust Fund (£456k), Centre for the Advancement of Development and Human Rights (£457k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Leyton St Catherine and St Paul (£456k).