GILGAL BIRMINGHAM

Registered charity 1102803 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support and accommodation for women fleeing domestic violence

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN CONSTRAINED TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AS A RESULT OF PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL ABUSE AND POSSIBLE INJURY TO THEIR PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL HEALTH FROM VIOLENCE AND AS A CONSEQUENCE WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUPPORT AND REFUGE AND THE DOING OF ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £99,791 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £857,005 from £728,400 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £454,532, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of holding six months of operating costs. The charity remains committed to its mission with 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 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 27/03/2024, 56 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 6.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sophie Alice Hallchair
• Gemma Murphy Punzo
• KENDRICK HAZEL
• Louise Anne Bourne
• Yvette Roselyn John

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHAG.

• WHAG income £3.7m
• WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £503k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• AMADUDU WOMEN'S REFUGE income £583k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k

Side by side with its peers

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