MY SISTER'S PLACE

Registered charity 1137319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Specialist service for female victims of domestic violence 16 years and over.We provide Advocacy, Support, Sanctuary Scheme, Counselling, Legal Advice, Training, Women's groups.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND WITH A VIEW TO PUBLIC PROTECTION AND THE PRESERVATION OF ORDER THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE2 THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE IN DANGER OF SUFFERING DISADVANTAGES EXPLOITATION AND/OR VIOLENCE FROM PERPETRATORS KNOWN TO THEM 3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY KNOWN MEN ITS CAUSES ITS REMEDIES AND PREVENTION PARTICULAR REFERENCE MUST BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME AS ADOPTED

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Middlesbrough, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a deficit of £156,937, a significant increase from the previous year's deficit of £57,812. Despite this loss, the trustees report that free reserves of £389,622 exceed their stated policy target of covering three months of expenditure, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Anderson Barrowcliff 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — My Sisters Place (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £190k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alana Tunney
• Amanda Oakley
• Christine Louise Nunn
• Helen Mather
• JENNIFER Shield
• Jo Capel
• Leah Duffield
• Melanie Wood
• Tina Clenaghan

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

Operates in: Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORTHING WOMEN'S AID.

• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £1.7m
• DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES income £575k
• 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.