WAY WIDOWED AND YOUNG

Registered charity 1164988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

i. To advance the education of the public to raise the awareness of the needs of people who are widowed and young. ii. To relieve persons in need, following bereavement by offering a peer-to-peer support network for anyone aged 50 or under, at time of bereavement, who is overcoming the loss of a partner, married or not, with or without children, inclusive of any sexual orientation.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are: (1) to advance the education of the public to raise the awareness of the needs of people who are widowed and young;(2) to relieve persons in need, following bereavement by offering a peer-to-peer support network for anyone aged 50 or under, at rime of bereavement, who is overcoming the loss of a partner, married or not, with or without children, inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race and religion.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £5,987 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £150,085. The trustees state that reserves remain above their policy target of 50% of anticipated running costs. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no material matters coming to the examiner's attention.

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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WAY - Widowed And Young (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Mainstay Recruitment — “Mainstay Recruitment 18 colleagues from the Walsall-based company Mainstay Recruitment took on an epic Snowdon challenge to raise funds and …” (source page)
• Irwin Mitchell — “A team of enthusiastic supporters from the law firm Irwin Mitchell – went head to head with two WAY teams at the Kingston Upon Thames Dragon…” (source page)
• Purple Goat Agency — “Purple Goat are a disability marketing agency and are supporting WAY after the wife of one of their staff, Chris, had received support from …” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanna Sedley-Burkechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Louise Charlesworth
• Gary McFarlane
• Katherine Denise Spikings
• Louise Jane Fisher
• Mike Etherington
• Nadir Keshani

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST.

• THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST income £114k
• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE income £475k
• STAR BEREAVEMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED income £135k
• BROOK YOUNG PEOPLE income £15.8m
• CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTRE income £388k

Side by side with its peers

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