CHRYSALIS CENTRE FOR CHANGE

Registered charity 1188750 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer a range of support services to women in St Helens and surrounding areas who are struggling with the impact of mental health issues and domestic abuse. Services include one-to-one counselling and CBT, in person and remotely, and weekly groups for social inclusion, health and wellbeing and domestic abuse support. We also offer a monthly menopause support group and online courses.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN IN ST. HELENS AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO HAVE COMPLEX NEEDS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHO SUFFER WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AS A RESULT FROM DOMESTIC 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total receipts of £361,988 against total payments of £340,395, resulting in a net surplus of £21,593 for the year. Cash reserves increased from £80,182 to £101,775, with unrestricted funds comprising £14,861 of the total. The accounts were prepared on a receipts and payments basis, and the independent examiner reported no material issues.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chrysalis Centre for Change (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian James Thomson
• Laura Hutchings
• Maureen Norton
• Michelle Blake
• Mollie Bird

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

Operates in: St Helens

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOMEN'S CENTRE.

• WOMEN'S CENTRE income £173k
• THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON income £474k
• RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT CENTRE (CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE) income £1.6m
• WELL WOMEN CENTRE income £809k
• LANCASHIRE WOMEN income £3.9m
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k

Side by side with its peers

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