ALTERNATIVES TRUST EAST LONDON

Registered charity 1103724 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALTERNATIVES, ALTERNATIVES CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE

Alternatives provides mental health and holistic wellbeing support to marginalised women, and by extension their families, living in Newham. We do this by offering free and accessible talking therapy, through advocacy support and community projects and by providing meaningful volunteering and employment opportunities.

Objects

A) To provide accessible mental health support for marginalised disadvantaged women within Newham, addressing such issues including domestic abuse, trauma, poverty, parental challenges, pregnancy, miscarriage or child loss. B) To relieve the needs of women experiencing destitution including those with asylum-seeker and refugee status, homelessness or insecure housing and with no recourse to public funds or living in poverty; by providing advocacy, community, education and holistic support.C) To provide vulnerable mothers with holistic support to address intergenerational cycles of trauma for the ongoing benefit of themselves, their families and the wider community. D) The relief of unemployment for the benefit of women in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment and volunteering opportunities.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £82,500, resulting in total reserves decreasing to £107,559. Per the trustees' report, the decision was made to wind up the charity due to challenges making continued operation unsustainable.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natalie Robinsonchair
• Francesca Ojefua
• Funmilade Aloutade
• Lincyenthe Joan Dallas
• Ruth Schwegmann-Fielding De Barros
• Vida Boateng

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Newham · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• ALTERNATIVES WATFORD income £66k
• ALTERNATIVES ACTIVITY CENTRE income £440k
• ALTERNATIVE FUTURES GROUP LIMITED income £80.7m
• INDEPENDENT OPTIONS (NORTH WEST) income £5.4m
• ALLIED SERVICES TRUST income £163k
• OPTIONS WELLBEING TRUST income £341k

Side by side with its peers

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