BRIGHTON WOMEN'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1003790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Brighton Women's Centre provides a range of services to the women of Sussex. Its aims are to protect and preserve physical and mental health, to promote education and to relieve poverty.

Objects

(A) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF AND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST WOMEN IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £89,413 on unrestricted resources, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £489,647. The trustees report that free reserves of £390,361 are held, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (£340,712). The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by West and Berry Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02601210

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Brighton Women's Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LAMBERTON, Emma Louise — director, appointed 23/04/2026on trustee list
• BAUTISTA-CONNOR, Joanne — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• FRANKLAND, Tallulah — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• D'ARCY, Mary Margaret — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• WOODWARD-BROWN, Amber — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amber Woodward-Brownchair
• Emma Lamberton
• Joanne Bautista-Connor
• Mary D'Arcy
• Tallulah Frankland

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON.

• THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON income £474k
• BRIGHTON THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED income £366k
• HILLINGDON WOMEN'S CENTRE income £273k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k
• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• WOMENS ENTERPRISING BREAKTHROUGH income £324k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.