Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

HANDS ON HAND OUT 

Services for London's homeless
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/22£22,595£22,383£21210
31/03/21£45,580£26,152£19,42810
31/03/20£18,323£11,162£7,16110
31/03/19*£9,468£4,508£4,9600
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years
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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, City Of London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£10,000
Co-Operative Group£7,780
Camden Giving£5,000
National Lottery Community Fund£1,643
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hands On Hand Out
£2,139 21/10/2023
We would like to hold an event where we can provide homeless people with company, support, hot food and essentials such as sleeping bags, tents and thermals to prepare them for this difficult time.
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee Celebration 2022
£1,643 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to host a street party to commemorate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee for people who are experiencing homelessness. The project aims to enable people to have fun be included and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hands On Hand Out
£5,641 24/10/2020
To provide a weekly set up for the homeless providing food/living essentials & a chance to chat with us, eachother and invited specialists.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 31/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Camden Giving - Hands On Hand Out
£5,000 08/06/2020
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/06/2018, number: 1178654
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR19: 3 days late,
Main office

940 Green Lanes
LONDON
N21 2AD

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY DISTRIBUTING LIFE PRESERVING ESSENTIALS TO IN ADDITION TO PERSONAL HYGIENE ITEMS AND HUMAN CONTACT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ROUGH SLEEPING IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THEIR IMMEDIATE SITUATION AND TO PROMOTE POSITIVITY TOWARDS FUTURE LIFE IMPROVEMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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