RISING SUN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & ABUSE SERVICE

Registered charity 289253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RISING SUN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT, RISING SUN WOMEN'S REFUGE

Support, advice, counselling and therapy for women and children exposed to Domestic Violence. Raising awareness among others in the community to relieve and educate about the impact of Domestic Violence through talks and training. Developing and delivering relating to Domestic Abuse schools programmes across county to offer safe relationship information to secondary school young people

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE MENTAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRESS AMONG WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED BY THEIR HUSBANDS OR THE MAN WITH WHOM THEY ARE LIVING AND AMONG THE CHILDREN OF SUCH WOMEN. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG SUCH WOMEN AND CHILDREN OR WOMEN IN GENERAL BY SUCH MEANS AS THE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT MAY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,187,603, which the trustees consider to be at a satisfactory level for the continuation of the charity's objectives. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operating.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rising Sun Domestic Violence and Abuse Service (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Amy — Trust & Foundations Officer (source)
• Elaine — Head of Adult Services (source)
• Ingrid — Head of Children & Young People Services (source)
• Brooke — Hospital IDVA (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Marks and Spencer — “We were thrilled to be chosen as Marks and Spencer in Canterbury’s Charity of the Year for 2024-25” (source page)
• Marks & Spencer, Canterbury — “Our local Marks & Spencer store in Canterbury named Rising Sun as their chosen charity in 2025.” (source page)
• NFU Mutual Canterbury & Sittingbourne — “This year, the Canterbury & Sittingbourne NFU Mutual office kindly chose to support Rising Sun with a generous donation of £6,504” (source page)
• Bridges Impact Foundation — “We were incredibly grateful to the Bridges Impact Foundation for choosing Rising Sun as their charity partner. Through a two-year partnershi…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Marian Clare DUGGANchair
• Ana Sofia Grilo Carapeto Graca
• Dr Carin Tunaker
• Dr Daniela Peluso
• Elizabeth Ann Coldwell
• Kristina Massey
• Ms P J Hazelton
• Titilola Oluseun Olufunso Triumph
• Tracey Duckett
• janine hodges

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

Operates in: Kent

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 ADVOCACY AFTER FATAL DOMESTIC ABUSE LTD.

• ADVOCACY AFTER FATAL DOMESTIC ABUSE LTD income £1.1m
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• SOUTH WEST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £923k
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m
• DOMESTIC ABUSE SURVIVORS income £40k
• TAUNTON WOMENS AID income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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