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Registered charity 1187529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ELLA'S

Providing independent long-term aftercare for women who have experienced abuse through trafficking and sexual exploitation

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR WOMEN AND OTHER VICTIMS AFFECTED BY HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND RESTORATIVE ACCOMMODATION, COUNSELLING, MEDICAL CARE, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, EDUCATION AND OTHER SERVICES TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM AFTERCARE AND RECOVERY; AND2) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES SURROUNDING SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 23% to £1,155,610, while total expenditure was £1,030,013, resulting in a surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £301,343, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £306,000 required to cover three months of core running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12178531

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ella's (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emily Chalke — Founding Director (source)
• Minke van Til — Managing Director (source)
• Joy Moyo — Director of Finance and Fundraising (source)
• Laragh Russell — Chair of the Board (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).

• TRIBE — “Their funding has ben crucial to our growth and development” (source page)
• Hyatt UK & Ireland — “Women@Hyatt UK have been collaborating with Ella’s for more than a year. They have raised donations” (source page)
• The Beauty Crop — “The Beauty Crop have been partnering with Ella’s for two years now. They have donated funds” (source page)
• The Present Tree — “The Present Tree chose Ella’s as one of their charities for International Women’s Day, and donated double their total profit from sales that…” (source page)
• Balham Baptist Church — “Balham Baptist have been supporting Ella’s for a number of years. They donate monthly” (source page)
• Hornsby House School — “Hornsby House School chose Ella’s as one of two charities to benefit from funds raised at their amazing Anniversary Ball.” (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.

• LANGFORD, Hannah Louise — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Gurpreet Kaur — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
• SLEVIN, Kieran Martin Joseph — director, appointed 08/05/2025on trustee list
• KIDDY, Caitlin — director, appointed 28/02/2025on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Laragh Anne — director, appointed 28/02/2025on trustee list
• JAFFER, Nimat Karim — director, appointed 13/10/2023on trustee list
• DAVIS, Charlotte Davina — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laragh Anne Russellchair
• Charlotte Davina Davis
• Dr Caitlin Kiddy
• Gurpreet Kaur Edwards
• Hannah Louise Langford
• Kieran Martin Joseph Slevin
• Nimat Jaffer

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE ELM FOUNDATION LTD.

• THE ELM FOUNDATION LTD income £2.2m
• WHAG income £3.7m
• ELAYOS income £161k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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