The Hands Around the World Charitable Trust

To help children and young people disadvantaged through poverty, disability or otherwise vulnerable, in partnership with locally-managed centres in Africa and India. We also support well-prepared volunteers to offer practical help, skill-sharing and friendship.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Benin
• India
• Kenya
• Rwanda
• Uganda
• Zambia

Area of benefit in its governing document: Either in the United Kingdom Or Overseas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £191,687 and spent £332,201.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 7%, from £205,110 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £191,687 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 173% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Heidi Marie SydorChairAppointed 23 June 2017
• David SteinerAppointed 5 October 2018
• Dorothy Joanne BallantineAppointed 21 March 2018
• Margaret Catherine HicklandAppointed 22 March 2018
• Michael Haden
• Philippa MooreAppointed 13 June 2014
• Simon MukwayaAppointed 9 May 2025
• Therese MolloyAppointed 21 April 2017
• Wendy Sutton-pryceAppointed 16 April 2013

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1097626

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

21 May 2003

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 DECEMBER 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 JANUARY 2006. as amended on 11 Jun 2021

Company number

04625570This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.hatw.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Monmouthshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Monmouthshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen