MIDLANDS WOMEN'S AID

Registered charity 1055578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aims and objectives of this organisation were established to assist women and children who were in necessitous circumstances and in particular those women and children who had suffered from violence and maltreatment in their own homes.

Objects

1)TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH,BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL,OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM VIOLENCE,PERSECUTION OR MAL-TREATMENT IN THEIR HOMES 2)TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC INTO THEIR PROMBLEMS OF MAL-TREATED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN AND INTO THE CAUSES AND WAYS OF PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SUFFERING CAUSED BY SUCH MAL-TREATMENT

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £215,490, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months' income. However, the trustees report a principal risk regarding funding uncertainty, noting that failure to secure funding from April 2026 could risk the continuation of services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03122842

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.

• SAUNDERS, Laura Yasmine — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• CAINS, Kathleen — director, appointed 17/07/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATHLEEN CAROL CAINS
• Laura Saunders
• cheryl collins

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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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.

Charities like this

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

• WOMEN'S AID LEICESTERSHIRE LIMITED income £1.9m
• SOLACE WOMEN'S AID income £15.8m
• STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £2.0m
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited income £1.8m
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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