WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION OF ENGLAND

Registered charity 1054154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAFE, WOMEN'S AID

Women's Aid is the national charity for women and children working to end domestic abuse. We are a federation of nearly 180 organisations providing just under 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across the country. Women's Aid also runs online support services, as well as providing expert training, qualifications and consultancy to a range of agencies and professionals.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was conducted by Bevan Buckland LLP for the year ending 2025-03-31. The auditors report on their procedures to respond to risks identified, including testing financial statement disclosures and assessing accounting estimates. The report is addressed to the charitable company's members in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Women's Aid Federation Of England (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Makgoadi Turpinchair
• Angela Stewart
• Caroline Chang
• Dr Amanda Elwen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hollie Theresa Venn
• Katherine Mary Harris
• Lindsey Wishart
• Susan Mary Coleman
• Vicky Jane Bunnage

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED.

• BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED income £536k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• LEEDS WOMEN'S AID income £4.7m
• BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL WOMEN'S AID income £8.3m
• BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £1.7m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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