WORTHING WOMEN'S AID

Registered charity 1098726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAFE IN SUSSEX

The provision of safe accommodation and advocacy to women and their children experiencing domestic abuse.The facilitation of peer support groups to women who have or are experiencing domestic abuse. The delivery of healthy relationship educational programmes into both primary & secondary schools.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF PEOPLE, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OR COERCIVE CONTROL, BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WEST SUSSEX

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit in unrestricted funds of £26,933 and a total deficit of £112,412 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity has sufficient free reserves of £521,368 to cover the difference between income and expenditure and to meet its calculated reserves requirement of £388,901.

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
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04691516

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.

• TARAFDER, Lucy-May — director, appointed 17/05/2025on trustee list
• CARP, Charlotte — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• HAINES, Katrina — director, appointed 22/02/2023on trustee list
• HALL, Liz — director, appointed 07/09/2022on trustee list
• JACKSON, Tana — director, appointed 19/07/2021on trustee list
• BROWN, Karen — director, appointed 19/04/2021on trustee list
• GROVES WILLIAMS, Leslie — director, appointed 13/01/2020not on trustee list
• JACKSON, Tana — secretary, appointed 17/11/2021

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 £316k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Carp
• Karen Brown
• Katrina Haines
• Leslie Groves Williams
• Liz Hall
• Lucy-May Tarafder
• Sarah Payne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tana Jackson

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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 BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID.

• BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £1.7m
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £2.0m
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• WEST CORNWALL WOMEN'S AID income £841k

Side by side with its peers

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