THE SURREY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1026988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In pursuance of the overall goals of its charitable objectivs, the Federation's principal activity is enabling women in Surrey. In practice, this means that through the work of its trustees, sub-committees, member WIs, volunteers and other supporters, the Federation: Encourages women in Surrey to become individual members of their local WI; Assists and advises on the setting up of new WIs in regio

Objects

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE ORGANISATION ARE TO ENABLE WOMEN WHO ARE INTERESTED IN ISSUES 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 OTHER CULTURAL SUBJECTS AND IN ALL BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE, HANDICRAFTS, HOME ECONOMICS, HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE. IT SEEKS TO GIVE TO WOMEN THE OPPORTUNITY OF WORKING TOGETHER THROUGH THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE ORGANISATION, AND PUTTING INTO PRACTICE THOSE IDEALS FOR WHICH IT STANDS.

Area of benefit: SURREY AND ELSEWHERE

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 charity reported a net income of £29,708 and total unrestricted reserves of £1,100,828, which the trustees state are sufficient to continue operations for several years. The organization operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02836301 · 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.

• WILSON, Christine May — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
• WAGNER, Georgina — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• GROVE, Christine Ellen — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
• BRITTLE, Dorinda — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
• ARTHUR, Jill Ann — director, appointed 03/07/2023on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Ann Elizabeth — director, appointed 04/07/2022on trustee list
• THOMAS, Ann Denise — director, appointed 21/03/2022on trustee list
• MULRYAN, Jill — director, appointed 16/03/2020on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Karen — secretary, appointed 10/10/2020

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Elizabeth Robertson
• Ann Thomas
• Christine Grove
• Christine Wilson
• Dorinda Brittle
• Georgina Wagner
• Jill Ann Arthur
• Jill Mulryan

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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