HULL WOMEN'S AID

Registered charity 1160440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HWA

HWA supports women, children & young people that are suffering or have suffered domestic abuse to establish safe independent lives. Core work is delivered in a secure refuge for women & children. Support is also delivered on outreach basis to women, children & young people. HWA delivers training and awareness raising programmes and also works in partnership with statutory and voluntary bodies.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SAFE ACCOMMODATION, PRACTICAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING OR WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC ABUSE.TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN HOMES TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE FREE FROM ABUSE.TO RECOGNISE AND RESPOND TO THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED. TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE PUBLIC, THE MEDIA AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ABUSE OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.TO WORK WITH PARTNER ORGANISATIONS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING WITH/FLEEING DOMESTIC ABUSE.TO SUPPORT WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ESTABLISHING SAFE, INDEPENDENT LIVES FREE FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE. TO OPERATE PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE CITY OF KINGSTON-UPON-HULL.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £150,663 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £867,495 to £716,832. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves are sufficient to meet their target and ensure continuity of services, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. 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
• 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
• 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 — Hull 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 ~0.5 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 (79% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREA ELAINE WILSON
• Dr Anjali Gupta
• Elizabeth Thompson
• JOANNA DAVIS
• Janet Leonard
• Lindsay Jillian Brocklesby
• Tuesday Whybrow

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Hull City

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 WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

• WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £503k
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• WHAG income £3.7m
• LEEDS WOMEN'S AID income £4.7m
• SAFETY WELLBEING AND CHALLENGING ABUSE income £1.1m
• WIRRAL WOMEN & CHILDRENS' AID income £903k

Side by side with its peers

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