WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON

Registered charity 1160555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides support, information and temporary accommodation for women with or without children suffering domestic abuse.

Objects

1. ObjectThe object for which the organisation is established is to relieve the distress and suffering experienced by women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse, as defined in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Domestic abuse involves any single incident or pattern of conduct where someone’s behaviour towards another is abusive, and where the people involved are aged 16 or over and = are, or have been, personally connected to each other (regardless of gender or sexuality). The abuse can involve, but is not limited to:• psychological• physical• sexual• financial• emotional• violent• threatening• controlling• coercive behaviour. ’Personal connection’ means the individuals concerned:• are due to be, are currently, or have been, married or civil partners to each other• are, or have been, in an intimate personal relationship with each other• are, or have been, parents (or had a parental relationship) to the same child• are relatives (the Act gives further definitions of ‘relatives’)The organisation will provide:a) refuge accommodation and outreach support where women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse can enjoy temporary rest and protection from abuse, with a view to their starting independent living, and obtaining a permanent legal separation or divorce if they are married or have a civil partnership.b) providing support and assistance in obtaining legal advice, medical care, emotional support and relevant information as part of a supportive process for women and their children who have suffered serious injury or impairment, physical, emotional, economic or sexual abuse.2. Powers:The CIO has power to do anything which is calculated to further its objects or is conducive or incidental to doing so. In particular, the CIO has power to:(1) borrow money and to change the whole or any part of its property as security for the repayment of the money borrowed. The CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 124 and 125 of the Charities Act 2022 if it wishes to mortgage land;(2) buy, take on, lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and to maintain and equip it for use;(3) sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the property belonging to the CIO. In exercising this power, the CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 117 and 119-123 of the Charities Act 2022(4) employ and remunerate such staff as are necessary for carrying out the work of the CIO. The CIO may employ or remunerate a charity trustee only to the extent that it is permitted to do so by clause 6 (Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons) and provided it complies with the conditions of that clause;(5) deposit or invest funds; employ a professional fund-manager, and arrange for the investments or other property of the CIO to be held in the name of a nominee, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the trustees of a trust are permitted to do by the Trustee Act 2000.

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: Luton, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves of £208,000 are above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £202,000, which represents three months of resources expended. The charity reported a net surplus of £78,337 for the year, with total unrestricted funds amounting to £1,244,645.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Associates Limited. 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
• 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
• 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 — Women’s Aid In Luton (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £270k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Pegrumchair
• Hannah Barber
• Harshinder Kaur Hundal
• Helen Nisbet
• Jessica Gondwe-Atkins
• Ramika Prajabati
• Samantha Walsh

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

Operates in: Luton

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TAUNTON WOMENS AID.

• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• LUTON ALL WOMEN CENTRE income £994k
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• PETERBOROUGH WOMEN'S AID income £840k

Side by side with its peers

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