ROSA FUND
Registered charity 1124856 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Rosa is the UK's only nationwide funder dedicated to women and girl led organisations. Our vision is equality and justice for all women and girls. We raise funds to strengthen organisations through grants for safety, racial justice, and campaigning. We also provide capacity building training and use our voice to influence other funders to support the sector.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £229,671 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to timing differences in grant funding. However, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, with free reserves of £399,000 exceeding the stated policy target of six months of core expenditure.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Fundraising cost ratio: 4.6% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Raising funds 66,718”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months (held: £399k)
“Rosa’s policy is to hold sufficient free reserves to cover core expenditure (defined as planned fixed core expenditure) for six months.” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Total donations of £6,485 were received from trustees, their close family, and entities controlled by trustees
“Total donations of £6,485 were received from trustees, their close family, and entities controlled by trustees (2024: £270). There were no other related party transactions in the current or preceeding accounting periods.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rosa Fund (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Rebecca — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Olivia Gillan — Chair of Trustees (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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£142k
Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 9.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (20/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Olivia Gillanchair · trustee of 2 other charities
- Beverley Adella Huie
- Claudia Dickens
- Gillian Green
- Kay Ali
- Lisa Elaine Raftery
- SHEILA JANE MALLEY
- Sarah Catriona Pilkington Jackson
- Shanta Assani
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ROSA FUND financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £229,671 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to timing differences in grant funding. However, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, with free reserves of £399,000 exceeding the stated policy target of six months of core expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Who funds ROSA FUND?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ROSA FUND as a grant recipient include FONDATION CHANEL.
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
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Side by side with its peers
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