INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES

Registered charity 1102337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORK WOMEN'S AID

Provides refuge accommodation, advice, advocacy, and practical support for women and their children experiencing domestic abuse.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, to:(a) relieve the needs of persons in Yorkshire and across the UK who have been subject to or affected (whether directly or indirectly) by, or who are at risk of, domestic abuse and/or sexual violence; and(b) reduce the occurrence of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the UK and beyond in particular, but not exclusively, by:(i) providing accommodation, support and advice;(ii) providing single sex services, including refuge accommodation and therapeutic groups for women;(iii) undertaking research and providing information, training and education about domestic abuse and sexual violence including its causes, consequences and prevention; and(iv) raising public awareness about domestic abuse and sexual violenceand in this article, “domestic abuse” means physical, sexual, emotional, financial or coercive control within an intimate or family relationship.

Area of benefit: YORK

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £2,128,141, with unrestricted reserves of £1,487,710. The charity secured new contracts and increased income by over £1 million to £7.7 million, despite rising staff costs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by AAB Audit & Accountancy 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
• 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
• 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

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 04984337

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — IDAS (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• UPPERTON, Jayne Ann — director, appointed 02/07/2026on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Jessica Joan — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• ALLOTT, Jennifer Mary — director, appointed 12/06/2025on trustee list
• INNESS, Victoria Louise — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• WILDE, Alana Jessie Shephard — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• ACKLAM, Catriona Jane — director, appointed 13/04/2023on trustee list
• UMPLEBY, Gemma Kathryn — director, appointed 13/04/2023on trustee list
• SUNDARAM, Vanita, Professor — director, appointed 03/06/2021on trustee list
• MULLIGAN, Julia Rosemary — director, appointed 10/01/2020on trustee list
• SEABROOKE, Alison Margaret, Ms. — director, appointed 28/10/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Martin — director, appointed 13/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. 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 ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catriona Jane Acklamchair
• Alana Jessie Shephard Wilde
• Alison Seabrooke
• Gemma Kathryn Umpleby
• Jayne Ann Upperton
• Jennifer Allott
• Jessica Joan Richards
• Julia Mulligan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Vanita Sundaram
• Victoria Louise Inness

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of York · Doncaster · North Yorkshire · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES.

• DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES income £575k
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m
• SAFETY WELLBEING AND CHALLENGING ABUSE income £1.1m
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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