BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1029278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Co-ordinates and supports activities of Women's Institutes in Bedfordshire. The Women's Institutes undertake activities to enable women interested in issues associated with rural life to improve their education in citizenship, public questions, music culture, handicrafts, home economics, health and social welfare and to improve rural life.

Objects

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

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE BEDFORDSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported an operating surplus of £15,420 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £82,015 against total resources expended of £66,595. Unrestricted funds increased from £117,337 to £126,870, while restricted funds rose from £63,530 to £69,417. The balance sheet shows total assets less current liabilities of £271,287, financed by capital and unrestricted/restricted funds, indicating stable financial positioning.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02708888

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.

• PRICE, Julie Dawn — director, appointed 07/07/2026on trustee list
• PESTELL, Susan Katherine — director, appointed 03/06/2024on trustee list
• WADE, Hazel — director, appointed 06/06/2022on trustee list
• COCHRANE, Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/05/2014on trustee list
• POTTER, Elizabeth Agnes — director, appointed 27/04/2009on trustee list
• BALL, Sally — director, appointed 01/05/1996on trustee list
• SANBROOK, Diane May — director, appointed 13/04/1994on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH COCHRANEchair
• Diane May Sanbrook
• Diane May Sanbrook
• Dorothy Anne Wigg
• ELIZABETH POTTER
• Hazel Wade
• Julie Dawn Price
• Rita Hutchinson
• SALLY BALL
• Susan Katherine Pestell

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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