GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Registered charity 1054310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GFS PLATFORM, GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY

Girls as young as six are telling us they are not able to be themselves. So we support girls build their confidence up by offering a safe place where they can learn to be themselves and proud of who they are. We aim to achieve this through early intervention and work with girls in the most deprived areas of England and Wales, where we know girls futures are disadvantaged.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN AND GIRLS. THE CHARITY WORKS WITH WOMEN AND GIRLS OF ALL RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND OF NONE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £694,603 for the year, resulting in free reserves of £224,234. This reserve level is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months' expenditure, which equates to £358,346 - £437,360. The trustees note that investment income is not adequate to sustain activities and must be supplemented by fundraising to ensure long-term financial security.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Girls Friendly Society (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Corriganchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexia Lovell
• Emma Hardy
• Hannah Fisher-Jones
• Julia Cove Smith
• Justine Howard
• Kay Cavender
• Lorna Bloom
• Molly Wedderburn
• Olivia Lewis
• Sabrina de Souza
• Shari Donnenfeld

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE GIRLS' BRIGADE ENGLAND AND WALES.

• THE GIRLS' BRIGADE ENGLAND AND WALES income £606k
• GIRLS ARE INVESTORS income £1.5m
• WOMEN@THEWELL income £666k
• THE GIRLS' NETWORK income £1.3m
• INDEPENDENT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES income £125k
• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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