Safe Steps

Registered charity 1177687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLYING FREE

Operation of projects for the benefit of domestic abuse victims in Essex.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE FROM THE SOUTH EAST REGION OF ENGLAND IN BY AIDING THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEE IN THEIR DISCRETION.TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE SOUTH EAST REGION OF ENGLAND;TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE SOUTH EAST REGION OF ENGLAND IN THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AND THE PREVENTION THEREOF, INCLUDING BY UNDERTAKING OR CONTRIBUTING TO RESEARCH INTO SUCH MATTERS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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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Registered contact address: Southend-on-Sea, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves have increased substantially to £571,667, meeting the trustees' policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure plus £20,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £82,078 for the year, with total funds increasing to £747,149. The auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Venthams. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Cardy
• Dr Kirstie Imber
• Elizabeth Daughters
• Lesley Dye
• Lesley Parks
• Louise Skinner
• Rebecca Eighteen

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOTSTEPS FOUNDATION.

• FOOTSTEPS FOUNDATION income £237k
• ESSEX CARERS SUPPORT income £232k
• SURVIVORS OF ABUSE income £23k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS income £95k
• SUCCESS TEMPLE income £198k
• SAFE HAVEN LONDON income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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