SOLACE WOMEN'S AID

Registered charity 1082450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMDEN WOMEN'S AID

THE PROMOTION OF THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND SAFETY OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC, SEXUAL AND ASSOCIATED ABUSE, IN PARTICULAR WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE RELIEF OF NEED BY THE PROMOTION OF THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND SAFETY OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC, SEXUAL AND ASSOCIATED ABUSE, IN PARTICULAR WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN

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: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £196k for the year, bringing total fund balances to £2.2m. However, the trustees report that the current unrestricted free reserves of £1.2m are below the satisfactory reserve level of £1.6m and the desired target of £2.3m. The charity notes that uncertainty around funding, particularly from public services, creates continuing challenges for the future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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.

In the news

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

• HEARST NETWORKS UK PARTNERS WITH SOLACE WOMEN’S AID TO HELP FIGHT ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN hearstnetworks.com · 05/06/2025
• Nancy Sullivan to star in Fabric London tour, supporting Solace Women's Aid whatsonstage.com · 12/06/2023
• Why Solace Women's Aid got #StopItComingHome trending in the World Cup campaignlive.co.uk · 16/07/2018
• Solace Women’s Aid and Stack Launch #StopItComingHome World Cup Campaign marcommnews.com · 29/06/2018
• Solace Women’s Aid at 40: ‘You have to turn people away. It’s absolutely dire’ theguardian.com · 30/11/2015

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Solace Women's Aid (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Experience Days Ltd — “Experience days Ltd – Thank you to Experience Days Ltd for supporting our International Women’s Day 2023 Silent Auction through their genero…” (source page)
• New Look — “New Look – We are proud to have been selected as retail giant New Look’s 2022 charity partner of the year, as part of their ‘Kind to the Cor…” (source page)

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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (3,410 followers) · instagram (13K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Ampofo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Ruth McKinlay
• Emily Florence Hutchings
• Hannah Clare Cane
• Jo Michaella Tity Jengo
• Katherine May Couper
• Kerri Hartwell
• Madeline Church
• Meghan Roach

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID.

• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION income £1.4m
• FORTALICE LIMITED income £2.2m
• WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON income £1.1m
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S AID income £605k

Side by side with its peers

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