WE:ARE Women's Empowerment And Recovery Educators

Registered charity 1123337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALLENS CROFT PROJECT

The delivery of a pathway of trauma informed awareness, empowerment and parenting programmes enabling women to overcome the effects of their experiences, improving emotional safety and wellbeing, reducing risk of further harm and victimisation and heal from the impact of the abuse. The following programmes: Freedom Programme, Domestic Abuse Recovery Toolkit, You and me, Mum and ACEs.

Objects

The Charity’s Object is for the benefit of the public, the relief of need by thepromotion of the physical, emotional and psychological well-being and safety ofwomen and children who have suffered, been threatened with or are presentlysuffering from domestic violence and associated abuse including emotional,physical, mental, sexual, gender-based or financial abuse in the West Midlands.

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM CITY

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £415 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £155,857. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £132,504 are currently above their stated policy target of approximately £68,000. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Andrew Coward
• Joanne Godman
• Jonathan Guggenheim
• Susan Need

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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