BURY ST EDMUNDS WOMEN'S AID CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 276883 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Restore Women's Aid

We provide support and accommodation for people affected by Domestic Abuse. We offer temporary accommodation in a safe and supportive refuge where women and their children can recover from the traumatic effects of Domestic Abuse and make informed choices. We also offer a range of community services, courses and counselling to support women to rebuild their lives after abuse.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OR COERCIVE CONTROL BY THE PROVISION OF SAFE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION AND PRACTICAL, EMOTIONAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £41,649, restoring reserves cover to 3.5 months. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted net current assets were £165,586, which sits at the lower threshold of the stated reserves policy range of 3.5 to 5.5 months. While the financial position has improved, the trustees note that continuity of service provision depends on securing sufficient future funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knights Lowe Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 01338724

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bury St Edmunds Womens Aid Centre Limited (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.

• CONNACHER, Andrew John — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• COTTINGTON, Nicola Marie — director, appointed 13/10/2025on trustee list
• BADMAN, Henry Allen Wallace — director, appointed 18/09/2025on trustee list
• BOYARAM, Charlene Marie — director, appointed 10/07/2023on trustee list
• STAMMERS, Hannah Rachel — director, appointed 12/07/2021on trustee list
• IANNELLI-POPHAM, Nicola — director, appointed 12/07/2021on trustee list
• BURNETT, Jacqueline Anne — director, appointed 09/07/2018on trustee list
• LARCOMBE, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 14/04/2009on trustee list
• HARBRON, Fiona — director, appointed 08/07/2008on trustee list
• HARBON, Fiona Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 13/07/2010

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Iannelli-Pophamchair
• Andrew John Connacher
• CHRISTINA BETTY DYE
• Charlene Marie Boyaram
• ELIZABETH LARCOMBE
• FIONA HARBRON
• HENRY ALLEN WALLACE BADMAN
• Hannah Rachel Stammers
• JACQUELINE ANNE BURNETT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicola Marie Cottington

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID.

• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• PORT TALBOT AND AFAN WOMENS AID income £1.8m
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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