Raise Your Hands

Analysis

Raise Your Hands is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Raise Your Hands reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.3m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £293k to £1.4m (+390%), an average of +49% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 202%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Raise Your Hands sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation (£1.4m), The Marris Foundation (£1.5m) and Young Camden Foundation (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 94% and trading 3.8%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £60k. Charitable activities took 80% of spending and raising funds 20%. Grants to other organisations totalled £787k. It employed 4 people.