RESPEITO LTD

Registered charity 1189055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

What we doProvide confidential services for men and women at risk of domestic abuse and those affected by it.Provide Information in Portuguese relating to matters of domestic abuse, British law, interventions and prevention.Run campaigns to raise awareness of domestic abuse and its impact.Signpost and enable access to support and services available in the community.Deliver educational

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PREVENTION AND REDUCTION OF DOMESTIC ABUSE IN PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COMMUNITIES IN THE UK BY:1. ADVANCING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) MEMBERS OF THE PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING COMMUNITY LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN ALL MATTERS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE BY:A) WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGENCIES TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO SERVICES THAT BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF THOSE SUFFERING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM PROBLEMS WITHIN THE FAMILY UNIT, COMBAT ISOLATION, AND LONELINESS.B) PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS TO VOICE CONCERNS AND FOR MUTUAL SUPPORT, TO SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITH AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.2. RAISING AWARENESS OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, FOCUSING ON PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND EMPOWERMENT OF CITIZENS OF THE PORTUGUESE- SPEAKING COMMUNITY, TO BUILD POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY BY:A) PROVIDING EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL TOOLS ON THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PROVIDING RESOURCES TO THOSE IN UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS TRAINING.B) PROVIDING INFORMATION IN PORTUGUESE TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE VARIED FORMS OF ABUSE AND THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES ON THE VICTIMS AND ON THE COMMUNITY.C) SUPPORTING FAMILIES AT RISK AND VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE TO IMPROVE FAMILY SAFETY

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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £48,155, causing its unrestricted reserves to decrease from £100,503 to £52,348. The trustees' reserves policy targets maintaining sufficient funds to cover core operating costs for at least six months but not greater than twelve months. Per the financial review, the current unrestricted reserves of £52,348 are below the lower bound of this stated policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2022 (received 09/02/2023, 9 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ana Margarida Abrantes Mateus
• David Porteous Dr
• Eugenia Lemos Ventura
• Felicia Marta Vanola Joachim Luvunba
• Graca Lessa Hall
• Liliana Teixeira
• Sandra Guerreiro
• Tania Fonseca Dr
• Timothy Lewin Dr

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• RESPECT income £3.1m
• DOMESTIC ABUSE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT SERVICES income £575k
• THE CHANGE PORTFOLIO income £937k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL income £1.8m
• THE PAUL LAVELLE FOUNDATION income £317k

Side by side with its peers

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