ADVOCACY AFTER FATAL DOMESTIC ABUSE LTD

Registered charity 1185078 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AAFDA LTD

Support & advocacy for families by provision of information & providing advocates throughout the criminal justice process & statutory reviews arising as a resulting of domestic abuseWorking with organisations to improve guidelines, processes & practises. Provides education & training in all aspects of Domestic Homicide Reviews, preventing domestic abuse & working with those bereaved by homicide.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT, TRAUMA OR LOSS, WHETHER ARISING FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE OR OTHERWISE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, SUPPORT, BEFRIENDING AND ADVOCACY;4.2 TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE LIFE BY:4.2.1 ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC IN ISSUES RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE INCLUDING ITS NATURE, IMPACT, CAUSES, REMEDIES AND PREVENTION; AND4.2.2 ADVISING AND ASSISTING PERSONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOMICIDE REVIEWS AND INQUIRIES INTO VIOLENT AND UNEXPECTED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES AND OTHER ABUSE.4.3 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in surplus with unrestricted reserves of £409,843, which the trustees report is just over five months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue in operation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by David Owen & Co. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2021 (received 19/07/2022, 164 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09527065

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Frank Mullane — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Henry Smith Charity — “Supported by The Henry Smith Charity” (source page)
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — “Supported by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation” (source page)
• OPCC Norfolk — “Supported by OPCC Norfolk” (source page)
• OPCC Dyfed-Powys — “Supported by OPCC Dyfed-Powys” (source page)
• OPCC Humberside — “Supported by OPCC Humberside” (source page)
• OPCC South Wales — “Supported by OPCC South Wales” (source page)
• OPCC North Wales — “Supported by OPCC North Wales” (source page)
• OPCC Avon & Somerset — “Supported by OPCC Avon & Somerset” (source page)
• OPCC Surrey — “Supported by OPCC Surrey” (source page)
• OPCC Derbyshire — “Supported by OPCC Derbyshire” (source page)
• OPCC Kent — “Supported by OPCC Kent” (source page)
• OPCC West Midlands — “Supported by OPCC West Midlands” (source page)
• OPCC Thames Valley — “Supported by OPCC Thames Valley” (source page)
• OPCC West Yorkshire — “Supported by OPCC West Yorkshire” (source page)
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority — “Supported by Greater Manchester Combined Authority” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ANASTASIADOU, Eleni — director, appointed 19/08/2025on trustee list
• PERRYMAN, Rebecca Anne — director, appointed 19/08/2025on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Angelique Nicole — director, appointed 14/04/2025on trustee list
• LENIHAN, John Michael — director, appointed 18/04/2023on trustee list
• O'SULLIVAN, James — director, appointed 25/07/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James David Neil O'Sullivanchair
• Angelique Nicole Arnold
• Eleni Anastasiadou
• John Lenihan

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES.

• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• DOMESTIC ABUSE SURVIVORS income £40k
• ABERCONWY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £359k
• HERTFORDSHIRE DOMESTIC ABUSE HELPLINE income £65k
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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