WISH

Registered charity 1054621 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOMEN IN SECURE HOSPITALS · filing overdue (register status)

WISH provides support and services to women with mental health needs within the Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems, and in the community; and influences local and national policy and practice.

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”). FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN PRISONS, SECURE UNITS OR SIMILAR UNITS; TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH OF SUCH WOMEN AND OF WOMEN WHO ARE AT RISK OF ENTERING THE MENTAL HEALTH AND/OR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS; TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT AND TO CARRY OUT, PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE NEEDS OF SUCH WOMEN AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RAISE AWARENESS IN GENDER EQUALITY IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS; ANDTO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTIVE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£216k
Latest spending
£220k
Registered
1996

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Policies the charity declares

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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 7

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £127,330 — contracts £63,665 (1), grants £63,665 (1); 53% of the £241,691 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 6

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

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
31/03/2025——
31/03/2024£216k£220k
31/03/2023£242k£237k
31/03/2022£217k£258k
31/03/2021£233k£233k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery30/06/2025£25kUnrestricted Funding
A B Charitable Trust17/06/2025£20kA grant to WISH
A B Charitable Trust04/07/2024£20kA grant to WISH
The National Lottery Community Fund18/08/2023£9kThe Community Link Project
UK government28/09/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
City Bridge Foundation11/11/2010£90kGrant to WISH
The National Lottery Community Fund17/03/2008£10kCommunity Link Group