FRIENDS OF SURVIVORS AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE (SADA)

Registered charity 1199030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Friends of SADA is a charity that supports the work of Survivors Against Domestic Abuse. The team offer advice, support and housing to anyone who is suffering or has suffered from domestic abuse.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING FACED BY WOMEN, MEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED, OR ARE EXPERIENCING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH STATUTORY, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS, THIS RELIEF SHALL BE PROVIDED IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMIT, ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION AND THE RELIEF OF ITS CONSEQUENCES.

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: Stevenage, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had total income of £38,286.59 and expenditure of £8,243.35 for the year ending 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £36,212.19. The trustees report that the charity is able to carry over £30,043.24 into the next financial year to continue supporting its services. An independent examiner noted that while financial reporting appears reasonable, improvements to internal controls and the adoption of a reserves policy are recommended.

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 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 03/04/2024, 63 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Francis John Ewan
• Sarah Muncey
• Sean Prendergast

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 SATEDA LIMITED.

• SATEDA LIMITED income £755k
• EAST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES (ESDAS) income £1.2m
• Society Without Abuse income £668k
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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