ARMY WIDOWS' ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1127921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AWA

The Association aims:a) Offer friendship, support to widows/ers and partners of deceased army personnel .b) Address issues relating to widows/ers and their children with the Army authorities.c) Work closely with other ex-Service specialist organizations in support of widows/widowers and their children.d] Bereavement counselling and life skills advice and support

Objects

TO PROVIDE WIDOWS AND THEIR DEPENDANT CHILDREN WITH RELIEF FROM THE EFFECTS OF BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS AND THE IMPACT ON THEIR PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND WELLBEING BY PROVIDING:A) COMFORT, SUPPORT, HOPE AND A SPECIAL UNDERSTANDING B) INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE ON FINANCIAL MATTERS AND OTHER BENEFITSC) PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted and restricted cash funds of £124,739 at the year end, which the trustees consider appropriate against their policy target of covering 12 months of activities and administration costs. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(36,879) for the year, resulting in a decrease in total cash funds from £161,618 to £124,739. The financial statements were examined by an independent examiner who confirmed that no material matters were identified that would cause concern regarding the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 31/03/2022 (received 01/03/2023, 29 days after the 31/01/2023 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 — AWA (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raqual Harper-Titchenerchair
• Audrey Hamilton-Nealon
• Darren Paul Doherty
• David Roberts
• Keith May
• Maggie Pedder
• Matt Lee
• Rev Adele Rees

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARMED FORCES WIDOWS AND BEREAVED FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (UK).

• ARMED FORCES WIDOWS AND BEREAVED FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (UK) income £51k
• ARMY FAMILIES FEDERATION income £1.4m
• THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST income £114k
• Army Benevolent Fund income £13.7m
• VETERANS ASSOCIATION income £986k
• WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

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