FUTURES FOR WOMEN

Registered charity 313700 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE TRAINING OF WOMEN (WOMEN'S LOAN TRAINING FUND), WOMEN'S LOAN TRAINING FUND

PROVISION OF FINANCIAL HELP TO WOMEN WHO WISH TO PURSUE A CAREER

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:-(1) to advance the training of girls and women for business and other careers and occupations by the giving to such persons who are unable to meet the cost of training such assistance during the period of training by way of grant, loan or otherwise as may be thought fit out of the funds of the Society and other available funds of which the Society may have control; (2) the doing of all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object.

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.

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Registered contact address: Basingstoke and Deane, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a surplus of £106,131 for the year, driven by a significant increase in donations and legacies to £112,794. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £123,362, which is well above the stated target of £20,000, indicating a strong financial position to meet overheads and unforeseen expenditure.

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.

• 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ayesha Laila Bharmal
• Harriet Denys Anderson
• JOANNA MURRAY
• Louise Irene Paterson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• FORGOTTEN WOMEN income £2.9m
• THE CAMBRIDGE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £66k
• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• FAIRHOLT CHARITY TRUST income £39k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• REGENERATE TRUST income £804k

Side by side with its peers

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