THE HAVEN WOLVERHAMPTON

Registered charity 1065427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HAVEN

The Haven Wolverhampton aims to provide support to women and dependent children who are vulnerable to violence and abuse. The Haven achieves this by providing safe, temporary, emergency accommodation and support services to women and dependent children affected by domestic and other forms of violence.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS AND THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE HOMELESS BY REASON OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING MALTREATMENT BY THEIR HUSBANDS, PARTNERS OR CO-HABITEES, ILL HEALTH OR BY REASON OF BEING REMANDED ON BAIL BY A COURT OR PLACED ON PROBATION AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF HELP IN ACQUIRING A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION OR BY SUCH OTHER LAWFUL MEANS AS MAYBE NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH RELIEF..

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: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £528,834 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant turnaround from the previous year's deficit. The trustees report that free reserves of £955,468 are sufficient to meet three months of budgeted expenses, which aligns with their stated reserves policy. The financial review attributes this improved position to improved expenditure forecasting and exceptional income from a legacy and a grant from The Mrs Hay Memorial Trust.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Wolverhampton Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/04/2024, 70 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Haven Wolverhampton receives £2.5m council contract bbc.co.uk · 06/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03159029 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Haven Wolverhampton (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lynne Moran — Chair (source)
• Laura Rogers — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Paycare — “Paycare kindly contribute towards the cost of our translation services.” (source page)

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.

• CAHILL, Laura — director, appointed 09/05/2025on trustee list
• HUGHES, Donna Louise — director, appointed 09/05/2025on trustee list
• BROOKS, Michael John — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• BROMLEY, Sally Ann Michelle — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• DOWNES-WARD, Kerry — director, appointed 05/11/2024on trustee list
• MORAN, Lynne — director, appointed 18/11/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DONNA LOUISE HUGHES
• Kerry Downes-Ward
• LAURA CAHILL
• Lynne Moran · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael John Brooks
• Sally Bromley

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

Operates in: Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

• WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £503k
• HAVEN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £695k
• COVENTRY HAVEN income £2.1m
• WHAG income £3.7m
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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