WELLBEING OF WOMEN

Registered charity 239281 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7981180 · Wikipedia · also known as BIRTHRIGHT, THE NATIONAL FUND FOR CHILDBIRTH RESEARCH, WELLBEING (THE HEALTH RESEARCH CHARITY FOR WOMEN AND BABIES) · also registered in Scotland as SC042856 (OSCR)

Wellbeing of Women is the charity dedicated to improving the health of women and babies to make a difference to everybody's lives today and tomorrow. * We provide information to raise awareness of health issues to keep women and babies well today.* We fund medical research and training grants, which have and will continue to develop better treatments and outcomes for tomorrow.

Objects

'4.1 TO RELIEVE THE SICKNESS OF WOMEN AND BABIES AND TO PROMOTE AND TO PROTECT THEIR HEALTH (WHETHER MENTAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL OR EMOTIONAL) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY: 4.1.1 THE PROMOTION OF THE SCIENCES OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS GENERALLY AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THEREIN; AND 4.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY AND RESEARCH WORK IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF ALL SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 26% to £2.36m, while total expenditure fell by 20% to £2.74m, resulting in a net deficit for the year. The charity held £1.64m in unrestricted funds at year-end, with free reserves of £819k, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £840k. The trustees concluded that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00824076
• Trading subsidiary: WELLBEING TRADING LIMITED Companies House 01646523

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wellbeing of Women (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.

• RENTON, Jean Mary — director, appointed 07/07/2026on trustee list
• PEARCE, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• ARIF, Nighat, Dr — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• JOSHI, Indra, Dr — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• CLEARE, Jos — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• GREEN, Karen Ann — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• THAKAR, Ranee — director, appointed 05/10/2021not on trustee list
• HORVATH, Margaret Ruffin — director, appointed 18/01/2019on trustee list
• WHITE, Debra Jayne — director, appointed 30/01/2013on trustee list
• JANSEN, Philip Eric Rene — director, appointed 01/01/2011on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, Claire Louise — secretary, appointed 21/10/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 41.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEBRA WHITE
• Dr Nighat Arif
• Indra Joshi
• Jean Renton
• Jos Cleare
• Karen Ann Green
• Margaret Ruffin Horvath
• PHILIP ERIC RENE JANSEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dame Lesley Regan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ranee Thakar MD FRCOG
• Sarah Pearce

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOMEN@THEWELL.

• WOMEN@THEWELL income £666k
• NETWORK OF WELLBEING income £209k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• WELL WOMEN CENTRE income £809k
• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• TYNESIDE WOMEN'S HEALTH income £297k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.