WELL WOMEN CENTRE

Registered charity 1107523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a holistic women's centre working to improve the health and wellbeing of women in Wakefield District. We offer mental health services for women, including counselling and therapeutic groups and courses. We work with young women at risk of sexual exploitation, and we also work with women offenders and women at risk of offending. We have a complementary therapy clinic.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF THE WOMEN IN WAKEFIELD REGARDLESS OF AGE, CLASS, CULTURE, RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR MEDICO-SOCIAL NEED.

Area of benefit: WAKEFIELD

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £165,980 for the year, resulting in a significant decrease in total reserves from £304,803 to £138,823. Per the trustees' report, free/unrestricted reserves stood at £6,989, which is below the agreed reserves policy target of £116,000. The charity acknowledges a 'very difficult funding environment' and has taken on new mortgage borrowings to acquire its own building.

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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Well Women Centre Wakefield (matched by registered charity number).

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 £190k. 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 ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Pauline VICKERS
• Jane Louise Sadler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Walton · trustee of 4 other charities
• Kelly Ridley
• Linda Thornley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Ndlovu

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOMEN'S COUNSELLING AND THERAPY SERVICE LTD.

• WOMEN'S COUNSELLING AND THERAPY SERVICE LTD income £1.2m
• WOMEN FOR WELL WOMEN income £437k
• WOMEN'S CENTRE income £173k
• THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON income £474k
• WOMEN AND HEALTH income £281k
• WOMEN'S HEALTH IN SOUTH TYNESIDE income £553k

Side by side with its peers

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