VENUS WORKING CREATIVELY WITH YOUNG WOMEN

Registered charity 1054622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VENUS, VENUS-WORKING CREATIVELY WITH YOUNG WOMEN

Emotional and practical support, therapies, information, advice and guidance with women, children and families through counselling, groups, activities, drop ins and open access sessions at our Centres and through outreach and home visits. Other activities include money and energy advice, resettlement support and supported housing.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF THOSE YOUNG WOMEN RESIDING IN THE AREA OF SOUTH SEFTON PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN MATTERS RELATING TO SEXUAL HEALTH:THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID WOMEN

Area of benefit: SOUTH SEFTON

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

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Registered contact address: Sefton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a surplus of £134,567 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The Trustees confirm that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 01/02/2022, 1 day 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03136727

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUSH, Emma Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/07/2019on trustee list
• ADEFAJO, Olubunmi — director, appointed 17/04/2019on trustee list
• BARRY, Emily Mary — director, appointed 06/03/2019not on trustee list
• MARSH, Jacqueline Joan — director, appointed 22/03/2018on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Helen Susan — director, appointed 22/03/2018on trustee list
• CONDRAN, Helen — director, appointed 30/04/2013on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, Pat — director, appointed 07/12/2010on trustee list
• DUTTON, Barbara Ann — director, appointed 07/12/2010on trustee list
• POTTS, Sue — secretary, appointed 01/04/2022

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA DUTTONchair
• HELEN CONDRAN
• Helen Marshall
• Olubunmi adefajo · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAT REYNOLDS
• Susan Potts
• emily Abbey
• emma Bush
• jacqueline MArsh

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Sefton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP.

• UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP income £177k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• INSPIRED income £281k
• COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £654k
• THE HAVEN PREGNANCY COUNSELLING CENTRE income £37k
• SUPPORT AND ACTION FOR WOMEN'S NETWORK (SAWN) income £697k

Side by side with its peers

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