STAY SAFE EAST

Registered charity 1153615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Stay Safe East is a user-led organisation providing advocacy and support to Deaf and disabled victims or survivors of hate crime and harassment, domestic and sexual violence, carer abuse and other human rights abuses in East London and across London. We work for change across London and nationally to ensure that disabled people get equal access to justice. We provide training and consultancy.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING CAUSED TO DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE BY HATE CRIME, HARASSMENT, DOMESTIC OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE OR OTHER FORMS OF ABUSE(2) TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES(3) SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £56,324, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £407,053 to £350,729. Despite the deficit, the trustees report that the organisation is in a sound financial position and satisfied that it is a going concern, with unrestricted funds of £76,823 and designated funds of £82,939 for running costs.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 — Stay Safe East (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Three Guineas Trust — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)
• Trust for London — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)
• London Community Response Fund — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)
• the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)
• the Home Office — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)
• The Ministry of Justice — “Stay Safe East is funded by Three Guineas Trust, Trust for London, London Community Response Fund, the Mayor’s office for Policing and Crime…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Irvingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Delameilleure
• Bennett Obong
• Isabel Cristina Ros Lopez · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Lesley Jutsum
• Kirsten Hearn
• Parimal Lokhande
• SAVITRI MAITREYI MARIA HENSMAN

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SAFE START FOUNDATION.

• THE SAFE START FOUNDATION income £69k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• WOMEN ASYLUM SEEKERS TOGETHER income £125k
• EASST income £590k
• SAFE Foundation income £268k
• C.A.S.T. income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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