LIVERPOOL DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE 2006

Registered charity 1189308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LDAS

LDAS provides services to ALL women & girls,16 plus, who have been subjected to domestic violence & abuse. We support women whether they intend to stay in the relationship, want help to leave or have left and still suffering the effects. We do this by providing trained specialist DA advocates, one to one support, counselling, group programmes, safety planning, housing, legal and welfare support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) TO RELIEVE, WITHOUT LIMITATION; THE DISTRESS, SUFFERING, POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS, AND THEIR CHILDREN, WHO HAVE OR ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM ALL FORMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE BY PROVIDING: SPECIALIST SUPPORT SERVICES AND ACCESS TO SAFE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN LIVERPOOL AND ELSEWHERE AS APPROPRIATE;(2) TO PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES IN ALL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION;(3) TO SUPPORT ALL PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED, OR ARE IN DANGER OF SUFFERING, DOMESTIC ABUSE FROM PERPETRATORS KNOWN TO THEM.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £36,158 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £752,961 to £716,803. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £198,761 are held to cover three months of running costs, meeting their stated reserves policy target. The filing indicates the charity is exempt from audit and prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties noted.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12464566

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LIVERPOOL DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• OSHIKANLU, Susan Marie — director, appointed 17/07/2026not on trustee list
• BRANCH, Susan Georgina — director, appointed 09/02/2026on trustee list
• BALL, Rachel Jane — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• HARVEY, Lucille Bernadette — director, appointed 11/08/2020on trustee list
• FLOOD, Rachel — director, appointed 14/02/2020on trustee list
• NOLAN, Paula — secretary, appointed 11/08/2020

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RACHEL FLOODchair
• CARYN MARIE MATTHEWS
• Lucille Bernadette Harvey
• Rachel Ball
• SUSAN GEORGINA BRANCH

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

Operates in: Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).