We Stand with Families

Registered charity 1139077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MOSAC

We Stand provides specialist emotional, practical and legal support to non-abusing parents and carers of children who have been sexually abused. By strengthening the protective capacity of the non abusing parent, we help reduce risk, improve safety and stability contribute to long-term recovery and wellbeing and improve outcomes for sexually abused children and their families.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS SUFFERED BY MOTHERS AND LEGAL GUARDIANS WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SEXUALLY ABUSED, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF GREENWICH

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF GREENWICH

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: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £90,262, which the trustees note was 'only just below' their stated policy target of three months of operating expenses. The charity reported a net outgoing of resources for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £164,984 to £90,777, and explicitly acknowledges reliance on Trusts and Foundations as a significant risk to future sustainability.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — We Stand (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 4.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexia Awanchair
• Andrew Abboud
• Anne-Marie Lawrence
• Benjamin Joshua Ravenhill Morgan
• David Richards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Daniella Chambers
• Miguelle James
• Mohammad Abdurraheem Gani Comrie
• Nelson Alfonso

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse.

• Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse income £4.4m
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k
• SPACE income £256k
• CHESHIRE WITHOUT ABUSE income £2.3m
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• WEST MERCIA RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT CENTRE income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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