MY SISTERS' HOUSE CIO

Registered charity 1188070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Embedded in the Bognor Regis community, My Sisters' House Women's Centre works across the coastal area of West Sussex.We provide a range of services to women from all backgrounds facing all kinds of issues, including individual work with specialist support workers, peer groups, counselling, and support for women to access training and employment.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN IN WEST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO HAVE COMPLEX NEEDS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHO HAVE SUFFERED DOMESTIC AND/OR CHILD ABUSE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, WORKSHOPS AND SUPPORT GROUPS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Arun, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 33% to £975,637, driven largely by a major fundraising event, while total expenditure rose to £760,916. The charity reports free reserves of £486,359, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy of maintaining six months' expenditure, and confirms the entity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — My Sisters' House (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allison Galbraith
• Dianne Smith
• Emily Perry
• Joanna McSweeney
• Joy Elizabeth Garbett
• Louise Rigglesford
• Stephanie Emery

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 MY SISTER'S PLACE.

• MY SISTER'S PLACE income £1.3m
• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON income £474k
• OUR HOUSE COMMUNITY income £256k
• BRIGHTON WOMEN'S CENTRE income £1.4m
• Good Shepherd Sisters GB CIO income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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