PHOENIX DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES

Registered charity 1112039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BGDAS, BLAENAU GWENT DAS, BLAENAU GWENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES, GWENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES

Phoenix Domestic Abuse Services uses a variety of methods to end all forms of domestic abuse. Services currently offered:-Victim Safety TeamYouth Respect TeamChildren Support Voluntary Perpetrator Programme

Objects

THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND/OR SUFFERING ARISING FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE WHICH ADVERSELY AFFECT THE QUALITY OF THE VICTIM'S LIFE AND THOSE INVOLVED

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE BLAENAU GWENT

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: Blaenau Gwent, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received 401 referrals in 2024-2025, a 26.5% decrease from the previous year, with an engagement rate of 48%. The document notes a scarcity of grant funding and a strategic shift towards commissioning rather than grant funding for future opportunities. No financial reserves, audit, or trustee remuneration data is disclosed in this impact report.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (88% 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

• Glyn Morvanchair
• Jessica Marie Veronica Barrow
• Sonia Behr

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

Operates in: Blaenau Gwent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 PHOENIX WOMEN'S AID.

• PHOENIX WOMEN'S AID income £1.3m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £1.7m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m
• SAFETY WELLBEING AND CHALLENGING ABUSE income £1.1m
• DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES income £575k
• PRESTON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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