SUPPORT AND ACTION FOR WOMEN'S NETWORK (SAWN)

Registered charity 1184501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUPPORT AND ACTION FOR WOMEN (SAWN)

Our activities include Offering a culturally appropriate space for womenOne to one support for women in crisis,Female Genital Survivor's group therapy. Volunteering and retail experience at the Furniture Mill,training for communities and professionals to become more culturally competent,supporting women to get back into work through job preparedness sessions and one to one enterprenual skills.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN AND AROUND GREATER MANCHESTER WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OF CREED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT AND ADVICE.2) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN GREATER MANCHESTER IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF VOUCHERS FOR EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oldham, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an operating surplus of £164,116 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £696,781 against total expenditure of £532,665. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a stable financial position with unrestricted funds of £158,174 and total net assets of £650,014, supported by robust budgetary controls.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Williams
• Michelle Leacock
• Rose Kirunda
• Tendayi Madzunzu
• Yetunde Folasade Olurin

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

Operates in: Throughout England · Uganda

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 Women's Association For Networking and Development.

• Women's Association For Networking and Development income £159k
• SWAN WOMEN'S CENTRE income £286k
• COMMUNITY OF AFRICAN WOMEN income £28k
• THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON income £474k
• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• THE TYNE AND WEAR SOUTH FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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