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Registered charity 1173653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOMEN AND GIRLS (DEVELOPMENT)

Women and Girls (Development) focuses on empowering women and girls to fulfil their potential. This is primarily, but not exclusively, achieved through the provision of long-term, sustainable sanitary napkins. Each napkin has a life of twelve months, and a pack of three napkins enable a woman or girl to have an excellent napkin while she is menstruating, enabling her to live life to the full.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG WOMEN AND GIRLS IN INDIA AND SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE BY THE PROVISION OF SANITARY PRODUCTS THAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO AFFORD DUE TO LACK OF MEANS AND BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION REGARDING THE USE OF SANITARY PRODUCTS AND MENSTRUATION AND PERSONAL HYGIENE.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had total funds of £18,986 at the end of the period, a decrease from £23,075 in the previous year. Net incoming resources were £4,090, resulting in a net movement in funds of £4,090. The charity reported total incoming resources of £75,085 and total resources expended of £79,175.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ameeta Chatterjee
• Andrea Csupa
• Andrew Gordon
• DAVID CROSWELLER
• Uma Gordon

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LOVING HUMANITY.

• LOVING HUMANITY income £300k
• UN WOMEN NATIONAL COMMITTEE UK income £2.6m
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• WOMEN'S COMMUNITY MATTERS income £1.5m
• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• WELLBEING OF WOMEN income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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