OASIS DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD

Registered charity 1126198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OASIS WOMEN'S REFUGE LIMITED

Oasis Domestic Abuse Service provides a single point of access for support across Kent & Medway. We deliver health-based IDVAs, high-risk MARAC advocacy, outreach, recovery programmes, and dispersed safe accommodation for all genders and identities. We also support children and young people affected by domestic abuse.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS THE PREVENTION OF PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE OR THREATS OF VIOLENCE FROM ANY KNOWN PERSON (HEREINAFTER CALLED "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE") AND THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE IN DANGER OF SUFFERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THEIR CHILDREN AND DEPENDANTS, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE 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 · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Thanet, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £123,753 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,177,047 against total expenditure of £3,053,294. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves stood at £1,100,096, which is above the stated policy target range of £351,000 to £701,000. The charity holds significant tangible fixed assets valued at £4,846,561, secured by loans of £3,878,375, but maintains positive net current assets of £1,509,485.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 04/02/2025, 4 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oasis Domestic Abuse Service (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Albert Gubay Foundation — “We couldn’t do what we do without the funders whose generosity sustains our core services: Albert Gubay Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £5.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alaina Sharyn Crystal
• Beverley Ann Aitken MBE
• Bob Porter
• Claire Shelton
• Mary-Joyce Insaidoo
• Samantha Charlotte Clare Chessa
• Shoshana Goodman
• Sophie Michelle Grant
• Stacy Lorraine Williams
• Steve Fox
• Susan Baker

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD.

• WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD income £1.2m
• REDUCING THE RISK OF DOMESTIC ABUSE income £590k
• Oasis Charity Limited income £426k
• Oasis Project income £1.5m
• EAST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES (ESDAS) income £1.2m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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