RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED

Registered charity 1147913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Rights of Women aims to promote the legal rights of women throughout England and Wales. Via legal advice telephone helplines, publications and training courses, we aim to increase women's understanding of their legal rights and improve their access to justice so they can live free from violence, oppression and discrimination and are able to make their own safe choices about the lives they lead.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A.THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER:B.EDUCATING WOMEN ABOUT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS;C.CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;D.RAISING AWARENESS OF AND CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY OF WOMEN AND DIVERSITY;E.CAMPAIGNING IN RELATION TO GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER;F.CONDUCTING POLICY WORK IN RELATION TO GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £390,823 in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees confirm represents approximately six months of core operating costs in line with their reserves policy. The charity reported a net income surplus of £121,996 for the year, with total income of £1,155,706 against total expenditure of £1,033,710. The trustees and auditor are satisfied that the charity remains in good financial health and is a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 27/03/2023, 55 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08002509

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rights of Women (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUTLER, Jayne Ruth — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• TURNBULL, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• OGUNLANA, Aramide — director, appointed 09/02/2022on trustee list
• DEHNAVI, Olivia — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• BENNETT, Laura Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• HACKER, Kat — director, appointed 10/09/2020on trustee list
• GLENN, Kristina — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• AUGUSTIN, Elisha — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• MINETT, Katherine Amy — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNIE HEDGE
• Aramide Ogunlana
• Elisha Augustin
• FIONA JANE TURNBULL
• Jayne Butler
• Kat Hacker
• Katherine Minett
• Kristina Glenn
• Laura Elizabeth Bennett
• Olivia Dehnavi

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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE income £987k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• WOMEN IN PRISON LIMITED income £4.0m
• FAIR TREATMENT FOR THE WOMEN OF WALES income £211k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.