SAHWR

Registered charity 1069612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAWR, ST ALBANS & HERTSMERE WOMENS REFUGE, ST ALBANS AND HERTSMERE WOMENS REFUGE

The charity SAHWR provides private refuges where individuals may have temporary rest and protection from attack and persecution. The charity also provides an outreach service for victims in the community.

Objects

The object for which the charity is established is the provision of relief of distress andsuffering to women, men and their children who are exposed to domestic abuse.

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 reported a net income of £90,987 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds carrying forward of £887,303. The trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hancock and Hastings. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SAHWR (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gemma Magee-Herd — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Maralyn Pollard — Chair (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).

• Hertfordshire County Council — “Current Funders: Hertfordshire County Council” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maralyn Pollardchair
• FIONA SKENE
• HILARY WALKER
• Jody Moorat
• Nicola Dawn Mitchell
• Sarah Louise Llewellyn-Jones
• Shirley Benett

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 WHAG.

• WHAG income £3.7m
• SAFE HARBOUR income £110k
• SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE income £131k
• REFUGE income £32.0m
• SAHARA FOR LIFE TRUST income £538k
• SALFORD WOMEN'S AID income £504k

Side by side with its peers

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