DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Registered charity 1178877 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DFWI

The education of women in Derbyshire through various activities, meetings and outings. Inspiring women through friendship and cooperation.Working within communities for the improvement of people's lives and environments.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE FEDERATION ARE TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE ORGANISATION IN DERBYSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £244,000 are above the trustees' stated policy target of 12 months of resources expended (approx. £214,000). The charity reports a net income of £3,725 for the year, with total funds carried forward increasing to £442,141.

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
• 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Joyce Levasseur
• Fay Rumley
• Judith Marjorie Ruth Stanhope
• Linda Anne Odell
• Lois Elizabeth Mary Wilkes
• Margaret Hall
• Rosemary Fisher
• Ruth Ann Davison
• Sherri Lynn Medcalf
• Susan Elizabeth Murgatroyd

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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