Sheffield Women's Aid
Registered charity 1138460 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHEFFIELD AREA REFUGE AND SUPPORT, SHEFFIELD WOMEN'S AID LIMITED, Sheffield Women's Aid Limited
SARAS provide two Refuges, accommodating a total of 37 families at any one time. Families have to be eligible for public funding and a victim of domestic abuse including coercive control. We house dependent children of any gender or age and also accommodate female heads of house-holds who are 16 or 17. We provide ongoing support to move into independent living.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £306,986 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £761,058. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves represent approximately 10 months of anticipated total expenditure, which is above the charity's stated policy target of holding between 3-6 months of expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Barnett & Turner Accountants Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sheffield Womens Aid (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Hollie Venn — Chief Executive (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~12.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Clare Fowler
- Gail Lewis
- Jacqueline Davison
- Julia Storier
- Nicola Jayne Mosley-Walia
- Nicola Speake
- Sarah Sonne
- Zarah Khan
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Sheffield City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Sheffield Women's Aid financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £306,986 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £761,058. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves represent approximately 10 months of anticipated total expenditure, which is above the charity's stated policy target of holding between 3-6 months of expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Barnett & Turner Accountants Ltd.
Who funds Sheffield Women's Aid?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Sheffield Women's Aid as a grant recipient include SMALLWOOD TRUST.
Known funders
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