NORTH DEVON AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE LIMITED

Registered charity 1098450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N D W A, NORTH DEVON WOMEN'S AID LIMITED

Provide refuge services for women and their children fleeing domestic violence/abuse and provision of high risk IDVA services and Court IDVA services in the community.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY MEN, WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, WHO ARE SUFFERING, OR HAVE SUFFERED, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/ABUSE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NORTH DEVON

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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Registered contact address: North Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £69,445 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £880,942. The trustees consider these reserves to be sufficient as they exceed the stated policy target of six months' wind-up costs, calculated at £596,401. The charity confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Westcotts (SW) LLP. 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04699463
• Trading subsidiary: NDADA TRADING LIMITED Companies House 11388166 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North Devon Against Domestic Abuse Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Hannah Ashford — CEO (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.

• BATES, Sharon — director, appointed 11/09/2025on trustee list
• VAN-EVELINGEN, Karen Louise — director, appointed 26/05/2023on trustee list
• MILLS, Alison Myfanwy — director, appointed 26/05/2023on trustee list
• TOMLINSON, Roy Ernest — director, appointed 26/05/2023on trustee list
• CULLEN, Melanie Jean — director, appointed 17/01/2019on trustee list
• STANLEY, Jane Elisabeth — director, appointed 21/10/2016on trustee list
• BARBER, Susan Agard — director, appointed 30/06/2003on trustee list
• HOCKIN, Irene Margaret — director, appointed 31/03/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £130k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Bateschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Myfanwy Mills · trustee of 2 other charities
• IRENE HOCKIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elisabeth Stanley
• Karen Louise Van-Evelingen
• Melanie Jean Cullen
• Roy Ernest Tomlinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN AGARD BARBER

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• HAVEN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £695k
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD income £1.2m
• NORTH SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £932k
• NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED income £856k

Side by side with its peers

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