THE WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK TRUST

Registered charity 1010397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W E N, WEN, WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK, WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK (WEN)

The principal activity of the company is to promote the protection and preservation of human health and in particular the health of women and of the natural environment by the advancement of research and education.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HUMAN HEALTH AND IN PARTICULAR THE HEALTH OF WOMEN AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION THEREIN AND IN THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH (AND PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH) AND BY SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased by 11% to £1,244,014, resulting in a net surplus of £66,095 for the year. The charity holds total reserves of £438,518, with unrestricted free reserves of £154,584, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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 02520522

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Monique Johnson — Co-Chair (source)
• Dr Amiera Sawas — Co-Chair (source)
• Zarina Ahmad — Co-Director (source)
• Kate Metcalf — Co-Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• CHRISTIE, Elizabeth Mary, Dr — director, appointed 29/01/2025on trustee list
• RAMADAN, Suna — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• SAWAS, Amiera, Dr — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• STAPLE, Tallulah — director, appointed 11/07/2023on trustee list
• BEGUM, Momotaz — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Amiera Sawas
• Dr Elizabeth Christie
• Momotaz Begum
• Suna Ramadan
• Tallulah Staple · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATURAL ENTERPRISE LTD.

• NATURAL ENTERPRISE LTD income £753k
• WIRRAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK income £63k
• WOMEN'S SPORT TRUST income £320k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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