FORTALICE LIMITED

Registered charity 1124031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVIDES EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AND A RANGE OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO ASSIST WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE, OR ARE, EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC ABUSE. TO RAISE PERSONAL AND PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £269,620 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees report that unrestricted and undesignated reserves stood at £1,111,673, which represents 5.6 months of budgeted expenditure, falling below their stated policy target of 9 months. 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 Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06517841

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gill Smallwood — Chief Executive (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.

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.

• HOLDSWORTH, Karen Jean — director, appointed 01/12/2025on trustee list
• RAYNER, Jeremy Paul — director, appointed 29/04/2024on trustee list
• THOMAS, Carol Linda, Councillor — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• HEPBURN, Ian, Reverend — director, appointed 22/11/2021on trustee list
• COLLIER, Sarah — director, appointed 11/06/2020on trustee list
• LEE, Lucy — director, appointed 26/01/2015on trustee list
• BROWN, Angela Mary, Mrs. — director, appointed 26/01/2015on trustee list
• SWAIN, Sylvia — director, appointed 26/01/2015on trustee list
• SMALLWOOD, Gill — director, appointed 23/06/2008not on trustee list
• SWAIN, Sylvia — secretary, appointed 02/11/2021

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Mary Hawkins DL JP LLBchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Angela Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Linda Thomas
• Dr GILL SMALLWOOD MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Paul Rayner
• Karen Jean Holdsworth
• LUCY LEE
• Rev Ian Hepburn
• SYLVIA SWAIN
• Sarah Collier

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Angela Brown — trustee here and at BOLTON COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES
• Dr GILL SMALLWOOD MBE — trustee here and at BOLTON TOGETHER

Known funders

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

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 TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES.

• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• RESPEITO LTD income £49k
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED income £536k
• LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £720k
• WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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