THE STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMENS INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1097974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SFWI's role is to coordinate and focus the activities of the WI as a whole with each local WI being involved.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE FEDERATION ARE TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE MOVEMENT IN STAFFORDSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

Area of benefit: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a net surplus of £11,175 for the year, with unrestricted funds totaling £246,798. The Trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and note that current funding is adequate to support work for the medium term. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £246,798 against a policy target of six months' running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Rose Manceychair
• Andrea Helen Newman
• Dr Mary Cooke
• Elizabeth Jane Goodwin
• Jocelyn Morrison
• Karen Elizabeth Harrison
• Karen Jayne Sulway
• Verity Winifred Chaplin Conner

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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