Supporting Hands (UK)

Analysis

Supporting Hands (UK) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kingston upon Thames. It was registered in July 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Supporting Hands (UK) reported income of £69k and spending of £64k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £65k to £69k (+6.1%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Supporting Hands (UK) sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The John Fawcett Foundation (UK) (£69k), UK Friends of Keren Ohr (£70k) and The Hayes (Kent) Trust (£69k).