Sister Circle

Registered charity 1033764 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOMEN'S HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES

Sister Circle is a multi-cultural community health charity, putting women's health first. For those living with complex lives, that statutory services can't reach. Our objectives are to: Advance education, knowledge, and empowerment; Preserve and protect health; Promote equality and diversity by challenging discrimination and encouraging services to meet the diverse needs of local communities.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONGST WOMEN RESIDENT IN TOWER HAMLETS AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS, IN PARTICULAR AFRICAN, AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND ASIAN WOMEN BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER PREGNANCY (B) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS.(C) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION AND ENCOURAGING SERVICES WHICH MEET THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE SHARING OF EXPERIENCES IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT EQUALITY IN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, AND GOOD RELATIONSHIPS IN THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £953,423 against expenditure of £860,558, resulting in a net surplus. However, the charity's free unrestricted reserves stood at only £10,090, which is significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of operating costs (minimum £215,140).

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
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 07/10/2022, 249 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Camilla Olivia Alexander Hampton
• Dong Chen
• Joanna Wioletta Fowler
• Kamajit Kaur
• Kathryn Brinthworth
• Sakshi Tomar
• Supriya Davda
• Wendy Yewande Olayiwola

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

Operates in: Newham · Southwark · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CIRCLES NETWORK.

• CIRCLES NETWORK income £3.0m
• THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN income £298k
• SISTER SYSTEM income £1.1m
• CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY income £388k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• Cysters income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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