PETERBOROUGH RAPE CRISIS CARE GROUP

Registered charity 1170957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRCCG

Peterborough Rape Crisis provide safe, confidential support services for child and adult survivors of rape, sexual abuse and sexual violence regardless of when the abuse happened. Our services include trauma informed therapeutic support and advocacy. All services are free of charge and available to survivors in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS OF WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM THE RESULT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds generated during the year matched expenditure, resulting in a small general surplus of £3,461. The charity maintains a reserves policy of three to six months' expenditure, with free reserves reported at approximately £2,000, though the balance sheet shows total unrestricted funds of £216,423. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cathy Bateschair
• ELSIE APICELLA
• Ellena Edwards
• GEMMA HOUSDEN

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMBRIDGE RAPE CRISIS CENTRE.

• CAMBRIDGE RAPE CRISIS CENTRE income £916k
• SOS RAPE CRISIS income £723k
• Rape Crisis South London income £4.1m
• WEST MERCIA RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT CENTRE income £3.4m
• BARNSLEY SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES income £964k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE CENTRE income £836k

Side by side with its peers

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