ANAWIM - BIRMINGHAM’S CENTRE FOR WOMEN LIMITED

Registered charity 1159706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANAWIM - WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER, ANAWIM ? WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER, ANAWIM OR ANAWIM - WWT

Women's Centre in Birmingham working to a 'one stop shop' approach. We support some of the most vulnerable &/or chaotic women who attend voluntarily or as part of their community sentences as alternatives to custody. We employ one-to-one interventions, counselling, a wide range of courses & specialised support services:Money Advice, Family Services and the IDVA service.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION BY PREVENTING VULNERABLE WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES FROM BEING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY ALL MEANS THAT ARE CHARITABLE IN LAW.SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER); ANDVULNERABLE WOMEN MEANS WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN, OR ARE AT RISK OF BEING, PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY ABUSED OR EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS, MENTAL, PHYSICAL HEALTH OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE PROBLEMS OR INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £93,803 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees confirm that reserves and cash positions are satisfactory and that the charity is operating in compliance with its reserves policy, which targets six to twelve months of unrestricted expenditure. The auditor has confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 07/02/2023, 7 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Anawim - Birmingham's Centre for Women (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alphonsine Kabagabo
• David Michael Heath
• Fiona Mctaggart
• Gemma Birkett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Anne Brown
• Paula Mitchell
• Peter Fahy · trustee of 6 other charities
• Professor Katherine Emily Brown
• Rehana Begum Ali
• Sabreena Mahroof
• Sheila MacGrath

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE.

• BIRMINGHAM DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.6m
• BIRMINGHAM CRISIS CENTRE income £877k
• BIRMINGHAM LGBT income £825k
• WOMEN'S COMMUNITY MATTERS income £1.5m
• CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE - BIRMINGHAM income £207k
• AFRICAN WOMEN'S CARE income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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