LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S AID REFUGE

Registered charity 299975 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S AID, Latin American Women's Aid

We provide refuge space for Latin American women and children in the UK who flee domestic violence. Our Advice and Information Centre provides advocacy and support for women who are not ready yet to leave abusive relationships or might not be eligible to live in the refuge. We recently took on floating support and we are part of the Islington BME Outreach Project.

Objects

3. ObjectsThe objects of the CIO are to prevent and relieve poverty among women and their children from Latin America who have suffered domestic violence in the United Kingdom by3.1. providing refuge3.2 promoting women's independence and autonomy and3.3 promoting a non-violent environment for women and children

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 · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves amounted to £2,695,864, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 8-9 months of operational costs. The charity reported a net income surplus of £370,304 for the year, supported by total income of £2,645,933 against expenditure of £2,275,629. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £950k. 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 ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susana G Klienchair
• Camila Khan Carvalho de Castro
• Claudia Marcela Pari
• Diana Mora Trimino
• Nandita Rao
• Virginia Lechuga Molina

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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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 WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON.

• WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON income £1.1m
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• PETERBOROUGH WOMEN'S AID income £840k
• WARRINGTON WOMEN'S AID income £352k
• NOTRE DAME REFUGEE CENTRE income £379k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k

Side by side with its peers

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