WEAR VALLEY WOMEN'S AID LIMITED

Registered charity 1057916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide refuge accommodation and outreach support to relieve distress and suffering experienced by women and children living in and around the area of Wear Valley, who have been physically sexually or emotionally abused (domestic abuse).

Objects

TO RELIEVE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIVING IN AND AROUND THE AREA OF WEAR VALLEY WHO HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY,SEXUALLY OR EMOTIONALLY ABUSED

Area of benefit: IN AND AROUND AREA OF WEAR VALLEY

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's going concern basis is dependent on the future flow of funding streams from DCC Adult Health Commissioning and voluntary donations. The trustees have reviewed the future position and are satisfied that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis, noting no other material uncertainties. The charity faces a risk to staff morale and job retention as it must bid to regain its DCC contract after the 2025/26 financial year.

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 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03212347

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wear Valley Womens Aid Limited (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CARLING, Paula — director, appointed 09/06/2017on trustee list
• HOPE, Alison Ann — director, appointed 09/06/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Hope
• Paula Carling

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

Operates in: Durham

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 WORTH: WOMEN ON THE ROAD TO HEALING.

• WORTH: WOMEN ON THE ROAD TO HEALING income £146k
• DOMESTIC ABUSE SAFETY UNIT NORTH WALES LTD income £4.4m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £2.3m
• WYCOMBE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £663k
• WIRRAL WOMEN & CHILDRENS' AID income £903k
• WARRINGTON WOMEN'S AID income £352k

Side by side with its peers

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