WELSH WOMEN'S AID
Registered charity 1140962 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
We represent and campaign for our member services across Wales who provide frontline support to survivors of all forms of violence against women & girls-Delivery of the Live Fear Free Helpline, providing first contact advice and signposting to ongoing support such as refuge and advocacy-Training-Campaigning and consultancy on relevant policy-Community engagement and fundraising
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The charity reported a surplus of £39,428 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £568,709. The trustees state that these unrestricted reserves are adequate to meet the charity's stated Reserves Policy, which assesses the level required to meet costs of closure, foreseeable exceptional expenditure, and temporary reductions in funding.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Welsh Government (39% of income)
“The Welsh Government is the principal funder providing 39% of the charity's income for continuing operations.” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: level of unrestricted reserves required to meet costs of closure, foreseeable exceptional expenditure and temporary reductions in funding (held: £569k)
“We have a Reserves Policy which assesses the level of unrestricted reserves required to meet costs of closure, foreseeable exceptional expenditure and temporary reductions in funding.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cymorth i Ferched - Welsh Women's Aid (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Sara Kirkpatrick — CEO (source)
- Julie McCarthy — Chair (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.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (07/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Julie McCarthychair
- Michelle Pooley
- Nicola Rae Danson
- Patricia Diaz-Rhys
- Patricia Louise Sadler-McGrath
- Professor Fiona Vera Gray
- Shawni Singh
- Treena Davies
- Victoria Friis
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is WELSH WOMEN'S AID financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £39,428 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £568,709. The trustees state that these unrestricted reserves are adequate to meet the charity's stated Reserves Policy, which assesses the level required to meet costs of closure, foreseeable exceptional expenditure, and temporary reductions in funding. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited.
Who funds WELSH WOMEN'S AID?
Funders whose own accounts filings name WELSH WOMEN'S AID as a grant recipient include WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION, THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, MOONDANCE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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