SOMERSET AND AVON RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT

Registered charity 1126682 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL RAPE CRISIS

SARSAS offers a specialist sexual violence support service for survivors of any type of sexual violence at any time in their lives. We do this through running our helpline 0808 801 0456 or 0117 929 8868, telephone and face to face support, email support and counselling.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £297,989 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted reserves from £358,108 to £194,835. The trustees note that while reserves are above the minimum policy level, they are below the ideal level and are focused on increasing reserves over the next 2-3 financial years. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06738639

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SARSAS Somerset & Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lorri Weaving — CEO (source)
• Laura Bates — Patron (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.

• WOLFE, Tara — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• MERAZ, Clare Theresa — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• PICKERING, Hannah — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• TAILOR WHYTE, Aysha — director, appointed 07/12/2023not on trustee list
• MAY, Rosie — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• DEKALB-POYER, Jennifer — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• NOTLEY, Rachel Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• CHAPPELL, Charlotte — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aysha Tailor Whyte
• Charlotte Chappell
• Clare Meraz
• Hannah Pickering
• Jennifer Dekalb-Poyer
• Rachel Notley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosie May
• Tara Wolfe

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE (RASA) CENTRE LTD.

• RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE (RASA) CENTRE LTD income £1.5m
• SOS RAPE CRISIS income £723k
• COVENTRY RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE CENTRE income £1.2m
• BARNSLEY SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES income £964k
• RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROJECT income £1.9m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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