FEMINIST LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Registered charity 1174735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEMINIST LIBRARY

The Feminist Library provides a reference resource, meeting place and programme of activities relating to feminism. It is the largest collection of Second Wave Feminist material in the UK.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BY:1) OPERATING AND MAINTAINING FOR GENERAL USE A SPECIALIST LIBRARY OF FICTION, NON-FICTION AND ARCHIVE RESEARCH MATERIALS RELATING TO THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY AND;2) PROVIDING OTHER FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY.

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 incurred a net expense of £5,700 for the year, reducing total unrestricted funds from £53,147 to £47,447. The trustees confirm that sufficient funds are available to continue operating on a going concern basis for the foreseeable future. The charity is exempt from preparing a cash flow statement as a small reporting entity.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Arkwright
• Anna Reilly
• Babette May
• Elizabeth Ingram
• Emem Attah
• Lee Mauve Patrontasch
• Ruth Beale

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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