PENDLE WOMENS FORUM

Registered charity 1125504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pendle Women's Forum (PWF) works for the benefit of women and young people from the disadvantaged communities in Pendle. Our main aim is to improve life chances, through the advancement of education and training, preservation and protection of good health, promotion of equality and social inclusion, and the provision of facilities for cultural, social and recreational activities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS OF THE ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY IN PENDLE, LANCASHIRE IN PARTICULAR.1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING.2) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH.3) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS, AND4) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR CULTURE, SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased over the previous year end, with a marked increase in the bank balance. The charity reports being in a good financial position, supported by long-term funding from various sources including the National Lottery and government programmes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Adamson Accountants. Discloses 3 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr RAISA MALIKchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bibi ul-Haq
• Kathlene Shore
• Nazema Saghir
• SHEILA WICKS
• SULTANA SHAFI
• Shazia Koser

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PENDLE NEW NEIGHBOURS.

• PENDLE NEW NEIGHBOURS income £123k
• BODIES IN MOTION (PENDLE) LTD income £436k
• BETTER COMMUNITIES BRADFORD income £435k
• BANGLADESH WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £125k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE WEST FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTE income £122k
• WOMENCENTRE LIMITED income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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