WOMEN WITHOUT ROOFS - NEPAL

Registered charity 1132931 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WWR

Women Without Roofs (WWR) is a small, yet growing, charity that benefits women and their families living in Nepal. We help women that are on their own and are struggling to survive. Many of these women also have children and all of our women are vulnerable, sometimes a husband will abandon his wife because of the stigma of leprosy, or perhaps the husband is in jail or dead.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG ADULTS AND THEIR CHILDREN LIVING IN NEPAL BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS GRANTS OF MONEY TO PROVIDE OR PAY FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN NEPAL.

Area of benefit: NEPAL

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's end-of-year balance was approximately £42,000, which is almost identical to the previous year. The trustees report no financial concerns regarding the charity's ability to continue, noting that the source of funds is widespread and reliable. However, they identify potential risks related to insufficient ongoing funding and operational constraints imposed by Nepali authorities.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA TOWNSENDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Rachel Skett
• Jan Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARILYN JAQUES
• NIC HOPKINSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Nepal

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.