BARNSLEY SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES

Registered charity 1166591 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSARCS

Barnsley Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Services offers Counselling and Advocacy support for victims of sexual abuse.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS OF MAINLY, BUT NOT ENTIRELY, WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VIOLENCE AT ANY TIME IN THEIR LIVES.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £72,819 and total funds of £607,279. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £214,927, which is below the stated policy target of four months' expenditure (approximately £300,000). The trustees declare that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BSARCS (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FIONA RUTH STEPHENSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALISON DIANE WILKINSON
• Adele Louise Gladman
• JULIE KEEN
• Jeanette Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEELY FIRTH
• SHERIDAN NICOLLE POWELL

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD RAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS SERVICE.

• BRADFORD RAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS SERVICE income £1.2m
• COVENTRY RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE CENTRE income £1.2m
• Rape Crisis South London income £4.1m
• RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT SERVICE (SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE) income £199k
• RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT CENTRE (CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE) income £1.6m
• SOS RAPE CRISIS income £723k

Side by side with its peers

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