EAST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES (ESDAS)

Registered charity 1092643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST SURREY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM

Provision of outreach and associated services to survivors of domestic abuse

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND ARE SUFFERING FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ANY CHILDREN OF SUCH PERSONS IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION

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 charity reported a modest surplus of £15,072 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,152,793 and expenditure of £1,137,721. Total unrestricted and restricted reserves stood at £681,270, which the trustees state is in line with their policy to cover 3–6 months of expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 — East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services (ESDAS) (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Diane Arnoldchair
• Charlotte Nicola Matier
• Laura Keen
• Miatta Latilewa Marke
• Richard John Hamlin
• Toluwase Victoria Oladosu

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE.

• NORTH SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £932k
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• Safe Steps income £1.7m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m
• SOUTH WEST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £923k
• RESPEITO LTD income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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