THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1010740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Is engaged in providing opportunties for all women to further their knowledge in public affairs and education

Objects

TO FURTHER THE PURPOSE OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MOVEMENT IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Federation reported a net surplus of £24,800 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous period. The Board of Trustees aims to build reserves to six months of working capital, though the stated policy target is not explicitly quantified in monetary terms. The charity holds significant unrestricted reserves of £458,329 and maintains a tangible fixed asset base of £421,556, primarily comprising WI House.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — NCFWI (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Marie Carrchair
• Anne Rodwell
• Deborah Ann Mills
• Elizabeth Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fay Tennet
• Heather Smith
• Jean Emily McLeish
• Linda Brett
• Susan Shaw

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST KENT FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES.

• WEST KENT FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £104k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE WEST FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTE income £122k
• WOMEN'S INSTITUTES - GLOUCESTERSHIRE FEDERATION income £226k
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £0
• THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £233k
• THE MIDDLESEX FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £258k

Side by side with its peers

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