Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse

Registered charity 1088844 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Standing Together works in partnership with organisations directly involved in delivering services, to coordinate their response to domestic violence. Standing Together facilitates those partnerships and shares the best practice developed with other projects and agancies in London, the UK and beyond.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £1,025,000, which the trustees designate to cover specific future costs including service continuation and redundancy. The charity reported a total surplus of £202,000 for the year, driven by a significant surplus in restricted funds despite a deficit in unrestricted funds. The trustees maintain that the current level of unrestricted reserves is sufficient to fund three months of operational expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04283131

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jo Choi — Interim Chief Executive Officer (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.

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.

• JAISINGH, Dhwani — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• BERRIDGE, Felicity June — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• EVANS, Helen — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• GANATRA, Ritika — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• CLIFFORD, Carlene — director, appointed 12/08/2024on trustee list
• HOLMES-MACKAY, Fraser — director, appointed 12/08/2024on trustee list
• MORTON, Tabitha — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• LANE-SMITH, Joel — secretary, appointed 27/06/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tabitha Mortonchair
• Carlene Clifford
• Dhwani Jaisingh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Felicity Berridge
• Fraser Holmes-Mackay
• Helen Evans
• Ritika Ganatra

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.

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 Stand Together Network.

• Stand Together Network income £308k
• STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE income £132k
• Funders Together income £1.2m
• Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership income £1.7m
• STAYING PUT income £3.4m
• Safe Steps income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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