STAYING PUT

Registered charity 1116162 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE SAFETY OF PEOPLE SUFFERING DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE/ABUSE. TO ENABLE SUCH PEOPLE TO REMAIN SAFE IN THEIR OWN HOMES. TO INCREASE THAT SAFETY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF, ONE FRONT DOOR HELPLINE, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION, CHALLENGING PERPETRATORS, SUPPORT WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP, INFLUENCING POLICY AND CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE SAFETY OF ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER OR AGE SUFFERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BY OFFERING A SERVICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT, AND SECURITY MEASURES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE

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: Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £91,207 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £3,626,051 and total resources expended of £3,534,844. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,459,375, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of three months' running costs (£882,723). The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Staying Put (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Yasmin Khan — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Anita Pluckwell — Head of Operations & Client Care (source)
• Adrian Byrne — Head of Finance & Corporate Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Gaughan
• Ellen Huison
• Jamil Ismail
• Louise Dawtry
• Malcolm Charles Hardy
• Molly Jean Beck
• Rizwana Ahmed
• Ruth Shirley Houghton

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Sheffield City

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 STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE.

• STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE income £132k
• Stay Charity income £2.2m
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS income £95k
• SIMPLE REASON income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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