GIRLS ARE INVESTORS

Registered charity 1182317 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GAIN

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £1,519,327 in funding, which was sufficient to fully fund its operations during the period. At the end of the year, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1,557,844, with cash reserves of £1,369,471. The trustees consider the financial performance to have been strong and have a reserves policy set at £968,701, reflecting 12 months of forecasted operating expenses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rogers Spencer. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — GIRLS ARE INVESTORS (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anita Tiessen — Chair (source)
• Tilly Franklin — Founder & Trustee (source)
• Anne Marie Fleurbaaij — Co-Founder & Trustee (source)
• Caroline Hultman — Co-Founder & Trustee (source)
• Charlotte Yonge — Co-Founder & Trustee (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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE MARIE FLEURBAAIJ
• Anita Diane Tiessen
• CAROLINE HULTMAN
• CHARLOTTE YONGE
• Dr Lawrence Edward Foley
• NATASHA BRAGINSKY MOUNIER
• Rahul Nath Moodgal · trustee of 4 other charities
• TILLY FRANKLIN

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSPIRING GIRLS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED.

• INSPIRING GIRLS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED income £863k
• THE GIRLS' NETWORK income £1.3m
• GIRLS' EDUCATION COMPANY LTD income £36.2m
• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m
• GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £443k
• Women's Inclusive Team income £647k

Side by side with its peers

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