AANCHAL WOMEN'S AID LTD

Registered charity 1113180 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AANCHAL LIMITED

The companys objects and principal activities are to: To provide support, assistance and advice to women and children who have experienced or who are experiencing domestic violence; andThe advancement of education and other charitable purposes which help and benefit the community.

Objects

(I) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE TO WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OR WHO ARE EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE;(II) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE TO THE CHILDREN OF WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OR WHO ARE EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; AND(III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH HELP AND BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NEWHAM, GREATER LONDON

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £130,517 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £645,341. The trustees' report indicates that the charity sustained funding for its primary services despite a period of recession and rising demand. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 audited by Saleemi Associates. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 14/02/2025, 14 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05516915 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• JAHANGIR SHAIKH, Saba — director, appointed 24/03/2021not on trustee list
• VORA, Nilam Gopal — director, appointed 11/09/2018on trustee list
• MULLANE, Kelly Anne — director, appointed 28/11/2014on trustee list
• MULLANE, Kelly Anne — secretary, appointed 17/12/2009

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Saba Shaikh Jahangirchair
• KELLY ANNE MULLANE
• Lee Bennett
• MARTIN REAL
• Nilam Vora
• ZOE KONDOGEORGIS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION.

• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• WOMEN'S AID LEICESTERSHIRE LIMITED income £1.9m
• BEXLEY WOMENS AID income £286k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k
• THE WOMEN'S CENTRE CORNWALL LTD income £2.7m
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k

Side by side with its peers

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