TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES

Registered charity 1120983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRAFFORD WOMENS AID

Provision of accommodation and community based support services to women, men and children who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. Prevention services to educate the public in the awareness of domestic abuse.

Objects

The objects of the Company shall be to relieve the physical and psychological distress of people who have experienced or are exposed to domestic abuse, particularly but not exclusively by: the provision of safe and supportive spaces and temporary accommodation for adults and children who have or are experiencing domestic abuse; the provision of community support services to those who have experienced domestic abuse. To advance the education of the public, and those who work in partnership with the public, private, voluntary community and social enterprise in issues relating to domestic abuse including its nature, impact and causes.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: IN THE TRAFFORD METROPOLITAN BOROUGH AREA AND GREATER MANCHESTER.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Trafford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £3,094,468 and expenditure of £2,814,654, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The accounts state that free (undesignated) reserves stood at £1,632,616, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover their stated policy target of 4 to 6 months of running costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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

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 ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Harriet Killeen
• Jo Hannan
• Lucy Wade
• Rhys Dower
• Tamsin Morris
• Tamsin Ruth Caine
• Zoe Littler
• Zvikomborero Shannon magara Kombo
• judith Ann Lloyd · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Salford City · Trafford

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES.

• DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES income £575k
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• ABERCONWY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £359k
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S AID income £605k
• STOCKPORT WITHOUT ABUSE income £762k

Side by side with its peers

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