FEDERATION OF ESSEX WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1014445 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ESSEX COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

To enable women to improve and develop conditions of rural life, advance their education in citizenship, in public questions both national and international, in music, drama and other cultural subjects, in all branches of agriculture, home economics, health and social welfare. It gives women the opportunity of working together and putting into those ideals for which is stands.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MOVEMENT IN ESSEX AND ELSEWHERE

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE LIMITED TO ESSEX

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £20,955 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £437,697 to £416,742. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £415,596 are held, which they consider sufficient to ensure the continuation of activities. The filing notes that membership fees represent only a proportion of required annual income, highlighting a reliance on diverse revenue streams.

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 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
• Investment
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Moyra Jean Jacksonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Angela Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Hathaway · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANICE CURTIS
• Karen Powell · trustee of 3 other charities
• Lesley Crisp · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN MACEWEN
• Verity Brome

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Essex · Havering · Southend-on-sea · Thurrock

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SUFFOLK EAST FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £87k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE WEST FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTE income £122k
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £0
• THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES OF ENGLAND, WALES, JERSEY, GUERNSEY AND THE ISLE OF MAN income £4.0m
• WOMEN'S INSTITUTES - GLOUCESTERSHIRE FEDERATION income £226k
• THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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