OSCR Scottish charity profile

Helping Hand Trust

ActiveCharity number SC032868
Registered20 January 2002
Main locationEast Ayrshire
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC032868
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
KA18 2AF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We promote the Christian Gospel through providing food to vulnerable people of all ages and backgrounds through operating food bank facilities.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The advancement of the Christian Gospel in Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom particularly, but not exclusively, among those suffering from drug, alcohol and other addictions and among others in necessitous circumstances and in furtherance thereof, but not otherwise to establish a drop-in centre at 20 Glaisnock Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire to assist and provide Christian counselling to those suffering from addictions and to other in necessitous circumstances.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 January 2025£45,660£15,080030 October 2025
31 January 2024£8,726£27,981029 October 2024
31 January 2023£6,886£12,805010 October 2023
31 January 2022£6,648£7,52304 October 2022
31 January 2021£5,795£58,22206 September 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Helping Hand Trust, 99, Main Street , Auchinleck , Cumnock , East Ayrshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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