LINCOLNSHIRE HUMBER FEDERATION OF WOMENS INSTITUTES

Registered charity 506278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUMBERSIDE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

The WI is the largest voluntary women's organisation in the UK. It exists to educate women to enable them to play an effective role in the community, to expand their horizons and to develop and pass on important skills.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE FEDERATION ARE TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE ORGANISATION IN EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE CITY OF KINGSTON UPON HULL AND ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE CITY OF KINGSTON UPON HULL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the federation faces considerable strain on its fundraising activities due to substantial increases in energy costs and the living wage, alongside the cost of living crisis. Despite these pressures, the organization maintains a reserves policy targeting six months of expenditure to ensure continuity in the event of a fall in membership subscriptions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill Dawsonchair
• Barbara Drury
• Denise Butler
• Eleonore Ransom
• Joanne Gander
• Margaret Rawden
• Mavis Reade
• Tracey Moutrie
• Tracy Louise Hindley

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · North East Lincolnshire · North Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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