THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION

Registered charity 1127631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOMENS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Providing accessible, quality and gender sensitive enterprise; employment, education, management development services to women. Supporting women in the improvement of health and wellbeing. Stimulating research to support women's economic development. Influencing policy to improve the position of women. Delivering gender friendly incubator and meeting spaces.Maintaining a sustainable organisation

Objects

3.1 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND THE PROVISION OF MANAGED WORK SPACE AND OTHER SERVICES TO SUPPORT BUSINESS START AND DEVELOPMENT.3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN AREAS THAT WILL ENHANCE THEIR ECONOMIC POTENTIAL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY BELIEVES FIT INCLUDING: THE PROVISION OF PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PROVISION OF CARER AND TRAVEL COSTS TO SUPPORT ACCESS TO THE CHARITY'S LEARNING PROGRAMMES; PROVISION OF GRANTS TO PREPARE FOR ENTRY INTO SELF-EMPLOYMENT FOLLOWING THE CHARITY'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES.3.3 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF THEIR POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF ENSURING THAT THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE ARE IMPROVED.3.4 THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY, AND CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC.3.5 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, TRAINING, EDUCATION, COUNSELLING AND PRACTICAL

Area of benefit: UNDEFINDED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a planned deficit of £0.47 million for the year ended 31 December 2025, attributed to strategic investment in staff capacity and programme development. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains a strong financial position with total reserves of £5.9 million and cash balances of £2.6 million, providing a robust base for future activities. The trustees confirm 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 Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 5.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN OSHIKANLUchair
• ALEX MORGAN
• JULIE ANN GILLESPIE
• Jayne Croft
• Lisa Pearson
• Mona Mealey

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOMENCENTRE HOMES.

• WOMENCENTRE HOMES income £162k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• BEING WOMAN income £122k
• THE WOMEN & FAMILIES RESOURCE CENTRE income £85k
• THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN income £298k

Side by side with its peers

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