SURVIVING ECONOMIC ABUSE

Registered charity 1173256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC051495 (OSCR)

The only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £687,126, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £350,000. The charity reported a net income increase of £103,753 for the year, supported by diversified income streams including donations and charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to Under £60,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Surviving Economic Abuse (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Smethers — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Mary Goodwin
• Anna Marie Yearley
• Janqui Mehta
• Jonathan Speight
• Katie Marie Smith
• Kirsty Madden
• Shaun Paul Tyndall

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Safe Steps.

• Safe Steps income £1.7m
• LIVING WITHOUT ABUSE income £1.8m
• STAYING PUT income £3.4m
• SAVE ONE LIFE income £1.2m
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• RESPEITO LTD income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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