LUTON ALL WOMEN CENTRE

Registered charity 1101754 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L.A.W.C., LUTON ALL WOMEN'S CENTRE

Services for women.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN IN LUTON AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICTS (THE "BENEFICIARIES") AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:-(1) RELIEVING POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS(2) PRESERVING AND PROTECTING HEALTH(3) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND TRAINING INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOREGOING (A) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION, ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING AND ADVICE; AND (B) THE PROVISION OF A CRECHE(4) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MEETING PLACE AND RESOURCE CENTRE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE SAID BENEFICIARIES.

Area of benefit: LUTON

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves are negative at £(306,955), which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months' total expenditure. The charity has acquired a freehold property secured by significant bank loans, resulting in total net assets of £557,114 and a surplus for the year.

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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• B&Q Foundation — “In recent years this has included: B&Q Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. 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 ~4.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill Stuart
• Kishwer Raj
• LYNDA REES

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON.

• WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON income £1.1m
• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• Luton Islamic Centre income £168k
• TEESVALLEY WOMENS CENTRE LIMITED income £387k
• HOUSING FOR WOMEN income £10.3m
• WEST END WOMEN AND GIRLS CENTRE CIO income £441k

Side by side with its peers

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