CAMBRIDGE WOMENS RESOURCES CENTRE

Registered charity 801240 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CWRC

CWRC provides information, support and training for women in Cambridge and surrounding areas.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE ACQUISITION OF SKILLS AND RETRAINING PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO NEW TECHNOLOGY. (2) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS. (3) TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNGER GIRLS IN PARTICULAR BETWEEN THE AGES OF 14 AND 20 THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a total surplus of £111,136 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Free reserves stood at £25,924, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £75,000 (three months of unrestricted expenditure). The trustees report that the charity has stabilized under new leadership and secured sufficient medium-term funding.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 27/03/2024, 56 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02192672

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cambridge Women's Resources Centre (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.

• MARSHALL, Sara Louise — director, appointed 12/09/2025on trustee list
• KENWORTHY, Laura Margaret Huia — director, appointed 23/05/2025on trustee list
• THOMSON, Anne — director, appointed 06/12/2024on trustee list
• BIRCH, Michelle Jane — director, appointed 22/03/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Sarah Antonia — director, appointed 03/08/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Antonia Johnsonchair
• Anne Thomson
• Laura Margaret Huia Kenworthy
• Michelle Jane Birch
• Sara Louise Marshall

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE.

• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• THE WOMEN & FAMILIES RESOURCE CENTRE income £85k
• THE CAMBRIDGE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £66k
• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• RELEASE COUNSELLING AND THERAPY FOR WOMEN CIO income £156k
• CAMBRIDGE RAPE CRISIS CENTRE income £916k

Side by side with its peers

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