THE AVON COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1022293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVON COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES, AVON FEDERATION OF WIS

The activities organised by this charity are consistent with upholding the objects of the Women's Institute charity of which the main purpose is to enable women who are associated with rural life, including arts, crafts and sciences, to improve and develop conditions of rural life, to advance their education in citizenship, in public questions both national and international, in music, drama and o

Objects

“THE OBJECTS OF THE FEDERATION ARE TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE ORGANISATION IN AVON AND ELSEWHERE.”

Area of benefit: FORMER COUNTY OF AVON

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £5,307 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £221,178. The trustees report that free reserves of £152,470 are currently in line with their policy target to cover 24 months of administrative costs. However, the trustees note that the Federation faces challenging times due to declining membership and a lack of volunteers for essential roles.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02821499 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• HANNER, Kim — director, appointed 02/07/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Ruth — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• POWNALL, Josephine — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• TARR, Lorna Mary — director, appointed 04/11/2020on trustee list
• MASSEY, Judith — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• BERRYMAN, Mary — director, appointed 08/05/2019on trustee list
• MURPHY, Susan Mary — director, appointed 20/09/2016on trustee list
• HULANCE, Marion Ellen — director, appointed 20/09/2016on trustee list
• HULANCE, Marion Ellen — secretary, appointed 03/06/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lorna Mary Tarrchair
• Heather Anne Pomeroy
• Hilary Jean Macklin
• Josephine Pownall
• Judith Massey
• Kim Hanner
• Marion Ellen Hulance
• Mary Frances Berryman
• Ruth Smith
• SUSAN MARY MURPHY

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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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 THE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMENS INSTITUTES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

• THE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMENS INSTITUTES, ISLE OF WIGHT income £34k
• THE DEVON FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £175k
• BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £75k
• FEDERATION OF ESSEX WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £129k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE EAST COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTE income £151k
• THE WARWICKSHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES CIO income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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