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JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED

Registered charity 1047045 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JWA

Only UK charity supporting & empowering Jewish women & their children affected by domestic abuse & sexual violence. We offer a confidential freephone helpline; a domestic abuse advocacy & advice service, specialist therapeutic services for children, a counselling service for women; training and education programmes for professionals and Safer Dating education in schools & on campus.

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Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £84,463 for the year ended 31 July 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, driven by increased charitable expenditure. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,378,502, which the trustees confirm is in line with their policy target of maintaining nine-twelve months of costs. The trustees and auditors both confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £90,001 - £100,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“One employee had employee benefits between £90,001 and £100,000 (2024: Nil)” — page 24
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.6m
Cost of raising funds
£201k
Reserves (reported)
£1.4m
Employees
27

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£1.5m£1.6m
31/07/2024£1.5m£1.5m
31/07/2023£1.3m£1.4m
31/07/2022£1.3m£1.2m
31/07/2021£1.1m£955k

Common questions

Is JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £84,463 for the year ended 31 July 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, driven by increased charitable expenditure. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,378,502, which the trustees confirm is in line with their policy target of maintaining nine-twelve months of costs. The trustees and auditors both confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Audit.

What does the highest-paid employee of JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £90,001 - £100,000 band.

Who funds JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, ATKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE SUSAN AND STEPHEN JAMES CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2021£25kCore funding
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2021£13kChildren's service project
ATKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
THE SUSAN AND STEPHEN JAMES CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2024£1k
THE SUSAN AND STEPHEN JAMES CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2022£1k
THE SUSAN AND STEPHEN JAMES CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2023£500
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2022£200
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2023£145
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2024£145

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Greater London Authority (GLA)10/03/2023£122kGrant to Jewish Women's Aid
City Bridge Foundation26/03/2020£249kGrant to Jewish Women's Aid

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
ANOTHER WAY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION2£77k
ROSA FUND2£60k
COUTTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£160k
SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED1£83k
THE TONY AND SHEELAGH WILLIAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£50k
SMALLWOOD TRUST1£46k
THE MRS L D ROPE THIRD CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT1£45k
THE THOMAS BRINGTON FOUNDATION1£28k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED£1.5m£90,001 - £100,000—within—no doubt
STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID FY2025£2.0m—0within—no doubt
AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID FY2025£1.1m£60,001 - £70,0001above—no doubt
WORTHING WOMEN'S AID FY2025£714k—0above—no doubt
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE FY2025£1.7m—0above—no doubt
BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£536k—0within—noted

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