Helping Hands Halifax

Analysis

Helping Hands Halifax is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Halifax. It was registered in February 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and recreation, which this site groups under disability. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Helping Hands Halifax reported income of £52k and spending of £76k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £61k to £52k (-14%), an average of -3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2025, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Helping Hands Halifax sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leeds Powerchair Football Club (LPFC) (£52k), Catholic Fellowship for the Disabled - Greenwich Deanery (£52k) and The Worshipful Company of Lightmongers Charitable Trust Limited (£52k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.