WIDOWS FOR PEACE THROUGH DEMOCRACY

Registered charity 1117334 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141761854

WPD holds regular meetings on widowhood issues at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. As the umbrella organisation for widows NGOs in conflict afflicted countries, it gathers data on the plight of widows; acts as the international focal point for regional widows' groups such as SANWED, and raises awareness on this topic with UK/EU and the UN. It also works with CEDAW.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EQUALITY OF WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR WIDOWS, WHERE THEY SUFFER DISCRIMINATION THROUGH LAW OR PRACTICE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO PROMOTE THEIR RIGHTS AND ENTITLEMENTS AS EQUAL CITIZENS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

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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
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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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 31/12/2025 (received 03/11/2026, 3 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• GEORGE PETER EDWARDS GELBERchair
• Alice Louise Charlotte Fookes · trustee of 1 other charity
• HUGO CHARLTON
• Patricia Mary Holden
• ROBERT JONES
• Sylvia Penelope Nadia Beales · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending