WEST END WOMEN AND GIRLS CENTRE CIO

Registered charity 1160161 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WE AIM TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN TRADITIONALLY DISENFRANCHISED FROM ACCESS TO EXISTING SERVICES, TO EFFECT POSITIVE CHANGE IN THEIR LEISURE, WORK AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS. WE DO THIS BY PROVIDING GROUP WORK WHERE WOMEN AND GIRLS CAN MEET, HAVE FUN, LEARN NEW SKILLS AND LOOK AT ISSUES RELEVANT TO THEIR LIVES, BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EQUALITY OF, AND TO HELP AND EDUCATE GIRLS AND WOMEN THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL CAPACITIES THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED WHO LIVE IN THE AREA OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND THE SURROUNDING NORTH EAST REGION.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £65,852 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £440,635. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £23,450, which is below the stated policy target of five months of expenditure plus redundancy costs (designated at £148,846).

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — West End Women and Girls Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sara Brysonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dhina Kajani
• Gill Hunter
• Hayley Davidson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jemma McLachlan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Keegans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Gallagher
• Rachel Pain

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE.

• CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE income £987k
• WOMEN AND GIRLS NETWORK income £7.3m
• WEST END (BURNLEY) CIO income £196k
• IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE income £995k
• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD income £364k

Side by side with its peers

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