STROUD BERESFORD LIMITED

Registered charity 1132626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide short-term accommodation, resettlement and outreach services to women and children who have experienced domestic abuse alongside a package of support information and advocacy.We provide individual tailor made services and promote group led, peer-led support that promotes safe, sustainable independent living.

Objects

"THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISTRESS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED BY THEIR SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, FAMILY MEMBERS OR OTHER INDIVIDUALS WITH WHOM THEY HAVE HAD AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP AND AMONG THE CHILDREN OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS, BY THE PROVISION OF HOSTEL ACCOMMODATIONAND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS SHALL FURTHER THE SAID OBJECTS.'

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £1,210,934, with unrestricted income funds rising to £230,790. The charity reports a surplus for the year and confirms it can meet obligations as they fall due, although it notes uncertainty regarding future funding streams.

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
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 17/03/2022, 45 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05128281

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stroud Women's Refuge (Stroud Beresford) (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).

• Friends of Stroud Women’s Refuge — “We are supported by Friends of Stroud Women’s Refuge, a compassionate community who increase awareness of domestic abuse and fundraise to su…” (source page)

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.

• MOORE, Georgia Peace — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• NAIR, Carly Victoria — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• RIGBY, Andrea — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
• TELFORD, Sarah — director, appointed 26/02/2024on trustee list
• COATES-HOWARD, Alison — director, appointed 28/01/2024on trustee list
• CLARKE, Alexandra Eleanor — director, appointed 23/03/2023on trustee list
• LAMOND, Angela Mckenny — director, appointed 14/05/2004on trustee list
• RICHMOND, Helen Catherine — director, appointed 14/05/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA MCKENNY LAMOND
• Alexandra Eleanor Clarke
• Alison Coates-Howard
• Andrea Rigby
• Carly Victoria Nair
• Georgia Peace Moore
• HELEN CATHERINE RICHMOND
• Sarah Telford

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED.

• BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED income £536k
• PETERBOROUGH WOMEN'S AID income £840k
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £1.7m
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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