STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID

Registered charity 1155364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of support, advice and accommodation to women and children living with, escaping or recovering from the effects of domestic and sexual violence. Support also provided to male victims of domestic and sexual abuse. Also educate, research and raise awareness on issues related to domestic and sexual violence.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND INCREASE THE SAFETY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE, TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION AND ANY OTHER SERVICES OR ACTIVITIES WHICH MAY RELIEVE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WHERE REQUIRED, WE WILL SUPPORT MEN IN THE SAME SITUATION.2) TO RELIEVE ANY WOMAN OR CHILD IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES WHO MAY BE TEMPORARILY HOMELESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS SERVICES OR FACILITIES AND BY THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN SUCH WAYS AS SHALL RELIEVE THEIR NEED.3) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE PREVENTION THEREOF AND TO UNDERTAKE OR CONTRIBUTE TO RESEARCH INTO SUCH MATTERS AND/OR PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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: Stafford, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £23,540 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £678,238. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £658,309 are within the stated policy target of three to six months of unrestricted expenditure. The independent auditors have concluded that there are no material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lawton Bradford Accountants. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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 — Staffordshire Women's Aid (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Rowcliffechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Tracy Ann Lorraine Redpath
• Linda Katherine Horne
• SANDRA KAREN MORREY

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID.

• BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £1.7m
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S AID income £605k
• PETERBOROUGH WOMEN'S AID income £840k
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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