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Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

BEXLEY WOMENS AID

The mission of Bexley Women's Aid is to enable and empower women and children experiencing domestic violence to obtain and sustain a safe living environment.Services provided include helpline, refuge, floating support, community outreach for women and children and education programs.
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Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely female?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£183£194£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£108£209£-101n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£157£229£-72n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£159£220£-61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£676£648£28£6£454£4408.1112
31/03/18£619£612£7£2£426£4007.8140
31/03/17*£625£620£5£1£419£4138100
31/03/16£626£572£54£8£413£4098.6120
31/03/15£578£590£-13£7£359£3567.2140
31/03/14£555£551£4£7£372£3387.4110
31/03/13£615£540£75£8£368£3537.8130
31/03/12£530£542£-12£9£293£2776.1110
31/03/11£624£566£58£9£305£2946.2120
31/03/10£590£552£37£5£247£2305120
31/03/09£588£511£76£6£209£1924.5160
31/03/08£529£536£-7£4£133£1172.6150
31/03/07£524£539£-14£23£140£1262.8130
31/03/06£532£533£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£523£490£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£456£454£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 27 years

www.bexleywomensaid.org.uk

clair@bexleywomensaid.org.uk

02083017841

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bexley, Kent,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£158,924
Greater London Authority£30,890
The London Community Foundation£21,061
The Fore£3,912
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Greater London Authority - Continuation Grant
£30,890 01/04/2022
Additional bedspaces  and helpline (5 bedspaces, 100 callers) 
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bexley Women's Aid
£21,061 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget. Please note that your application has been part funded as confirmed with you by MOPAC.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Bexley Women's Aid
£3,912 06/07/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Bexley Women's Aid, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund
£61,054 05/06/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - DOMESTIC ABUSE
£97,870 01/04/2020
A further 25 charities will receive a share of 1 million boost as part of the governments 10 million emergency fund.
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Coordinator
£9,773 12/09/2019
12
Volunteer Coordinator
DCMS - Ask Me Plus
£23,000 01/04/2019
The Ask Me Plus project will expand and develop the Womens Aid Federations Ask Me pilot project which aims to prevent and reduce the harm caused by domestic abuse.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-58
  • CHARLOTTE LYNCH Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director
  • SUSAN STANSFIELD (Chair) Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Police Officer
  • UZMA ALI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Development Projects Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/07/1997, number: 1063427
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/11/1995, number: 03123424
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 16 days late, AR17: 1 days late,
Main office

PO BOX 25
BEXLEYHEATH
KENT
DA7 4BS

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION OF REFUGE ACCOMMODATION AND BY SUCH OTHER MEASURES AS SHALL FURTHER THE SAID OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BEXLEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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