ELAYOS

Registered charity 1185455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, VULNERABLE AND/OR ISOLATED WOMEN BY THE PROVISION OF PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, VULNERABLE AND/OR ISOLATED WOMEN BY THE PROVISION OF PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD. THE DEFINITION OF “VULNERABLE” WOMEN INCLUDES WOMEN AFFECTED BY PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS, REFUGEES/MIGRANTS/ASYLUM SEEKERS, VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, HUMAN SLAVERY AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OR ANY OTHER VULNERABILITY.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,241 for the year, with total income of £161,014 against total expenditure of £169,255. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £51,139, which complied with the policy target of maintaining three to six months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources are available to continue operations in the near future.

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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Support Elayos Light — “Support Elayos Light” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael William Eric Hornechair
• Jenny Sadler
• Lorraine Stevens
• Margaret Coleman
• Tonita Whittier
• Wendy Ewins

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• ELBWO income £44k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• ETHOS-EXTENDING THE HAND OF SUPPORT income £411k
• TEESVALLEY WOMENS CENTRE LIMITED income £387k
• ELLY CHARITY income £83k
• CEYLON TRUST income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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