AVA (AGAINST VIOLENCE AND ABUSE)

Registered charity 1134713 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q50040063 · also known as AVA

To offer a range of high quality and expert services to facilitate specialist and generic agencies to contribute towards our vision of a world free from violence against women and girls; to identify and fill gaps in the field, find innovative solutions to current and emerging situations and inspire effective strategic approaches to reducing and preventing violence against women and girls.

Objects

3.1.1 PROMOTE EQUALITY BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN;3.1.2 ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ISSUES RELATING TO INEQUALITY BETWEEN MEN ANDWOMEN, AND IN ISSUES RELATING TO VIOLENCE AND ABUSE;3.I.3 PROVIDE EDUCATION, INFORMATION, SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO VICTIMS AND POTENTIALVICTIMS, SURVIVORS AND PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, AND TOCHILDREN AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, AND TO AGENCIES ANDINDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO SUCH PERSONS;3.1.4 ADVANCE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF VICTIMS AND POTENTIAL VICTIMS, SURVIVORS, AND PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, AND CHILDREN AFFECTEDBY VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, AND TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT THE HARDSHIP ANDDISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS;3.1.5 UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN RELATION TO ENDING VIOLENCEAND ABUSE AND HELPING THOSE AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE AND ABUSE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

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

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

2 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shani Leechair
• Bridget Symonds
• Joanna Kelly
• Kiri Thayaparan
• Rena Sodhi

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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