SAFETY4SISTERS NORTH WEST

Registered charity 1191686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S4S

To promote the human rights of migrant women experiencing gender based violence through support services, individual advocacy, group work, training for agencies, partnerships and networks and awareness raising activities throughout the North West

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS) AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) AND IN PARTICULAR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UK EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND WHO HAVE NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUND BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSEOBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSESCOMMENTING ON HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATIONRAISING AWARENESS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WOMEN EXPERIENCING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCEPROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTSPROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONSIN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENGAGE IN NON-PARTY POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT IT OBJECTIVES.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £57,666 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £727,034 and total expenditure of £669,368. The trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves stood at £137,879, which they consider sufficient to cover approximately three months of unrestricted expenditure.

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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Rubina JASANIchair
• Amy Wilson
• Dr Laura Whitter
• Dr Lynne Fanthome
• Jessica Marie Bull
• Naz Asghar
• Stephanie Bechelet
• Tuana Selvi

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 WORTHING WOMEN'S AID.

• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k
• NOTRE DAME REFUGEE CENTRE income £379k
• DIVERSITY MATTERS NORTH WEST LTD income £455k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• WOMEN ASYLUM SEEKERS TOGETHER income £125k

Side by side with its peers

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