Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID

To provide safe and secure temporary refuge accommodation, support and other related services to women and their children fleeing domestic violence. These services are confidential, non-judgemental and aim to empower women so that they are able to make informed choices and decisions about their future.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£1,954£1,913£41£0£1,622£1,62210.2410
31/03/22£1,557£1,529£27£0£1,581£1,56512.3350
31/03/21£1,731£1,459£272£0£1,554£1,54712.7320
31/03/20£1,339£1,294£45£0£1,282£1,24211.52835
31/03/19£1,261£1,258£4£0£1,237£1,20511.52443
31/03/18*£1,204£1,229£-25£0£1,233£1,15111.2200
31/03/17*£1,102£836£266£0£1,259£1,18717130
31/03/16*£807£759£47£0£993£98115.5110
31/03/15£755£751£4£4£946£93715120
31/03/14£800£813£-13£4£942£93313.8130
31/03/13£889£797£92£4£955£94214.2120
31/03/12£735£762£-26£5£863£84913.4130
31/03/11£776£702£74£5£890£88015120
31/03/10£738£708£30£6£816£80413.6120
31/03/09*£737£588£150£6£786£77515.8120
31/03/08*£741£635£106£6£637£61411.6140
31/03/07*£741£658£83£6£531£4898.9140
31/03/06£722£599£124n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£685£639£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£666£559£108n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 63%
Liabilities/Income: 141%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 10.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 27 years

www.bcwa.org.uk

info@bcwa.org.uk

02083139303

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bromley, Croydon,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£408,848
City Bridge Trust£323,842
Henry Smith Charity£194,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£139,344
BBC Children in Need£120,000
The London Community Foundation£92,357
DCMS£69,672
The Clothworkers Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid Ltd
£242,200 20/10/2023
24
£242,400 over four years (£54,400, £59,500, £61,800, and £66,700) towards the costs of two part-time volunteer managers to manage the volunteer provision, increase the number of volunteers and gain volunteer accreditation.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Bromley & Croydon Women's Aid
£194,000 21/09/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing a counselling service for people with experience of domestic abuse in the London Boroughs of Bromley and Croydon.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Bromley & Croydon Women's Aid
£50,000 11/07/2023
Building a garden office for a charity which works with victim-survivors of domestic abuse in Bromley
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Women's Aid Bromley & Croydon
£120,000 05/06/2023
36
This grant will fund support and activities for children affected by domestic abuse and living in refuges. The work will help to reduce stress, strengthen relationships, and increase confidence and self-esteem for participants.
London Catalyst - BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID - 1
£2,000 03/05/2022
Hardship Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - Young People's Domestic Abuse Service
£408,848 24/03/2022
The project is using funding to deliver the 'Young people's domestic abuse service' in Bromley and Croydon. The project will support young people aged 11-24 experiencing domestic abuse through 1:1 or group support delivering early intervention and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid Ltd
£50,000 22/04/2021
towards the salary of a Volunteer Manager, administration and other core running costs as agreed with your assessor
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid
£72,167 22/12/2020
16
To support staff costs, including: volunteer management; Resettlement Officer; Outreach Workers Support Line Worker and Administrator. The grant will also support the purchase of equipment for staff: 4 mobiles and 4 laptops, to support their remote ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid Ltd
£27,357 28/09/2020
towards the development of a mental health programme to support the resilience and wellbeing of staff and therapeutic arts activities for service users, costs of interpreters and digital capacity building to support organisational capacity and the ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bromley & Croydon Women's Aid
£20,190 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund
£69,672 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
DCMS - Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund
£69,672 05/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid
£2,800 12/05/2020
12
Covid Fund Small Grant unrestricted core costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley and Croydon Women's Aid Ltd
£4,285 04/05/2020
A grant of £4,285 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - DOMESTIC ABUSE
£69,672 01/04/2020
A further 25 charities will receive a share of 1 million boost as part of the governments 10 million emergency fund.
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£88,258 01/10/2018
#RelationshipGoals To develop a project to raise awareness of healthy relationships in secondary schools and youth settings, by providing talks and group work with the aim of tackling gendered attitudes and behaviours that lead to criminal ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bromley & Croydon Women's Aid
£2,734 29/11/2017
We would like to meet the emergency needs of women and children who come to our local refuges when fleeing domestic abuse.
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI stage 2
£684,080 22/03/2016
60
The project is aimed at sustaining the tailored support for victims of domestic abuse with complex needs such as drug and alcohol dependencies, mental health problems. The organisation will recruit outreach workers who will develop partnerships with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BWA Self Help Support Group Network
£101,296 12/05/2010
48
This project provides Self Help Support Groups in the London Borough of Bromley for women who have experienced domestic violence. The groups will enable like minded women who have all had similar experiences and are in need of each other's support ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-64
  • AMBER ANDRADE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
  • CATHERINE JANE WARWICK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • DORETTE HANLEY-OSBORNE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • ELAINE JENNIFER ESTEEN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Facilitator
  • FRANCES BROWNHILL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Commercial Director
  • LAURA JOHNSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • SARAH JANE CASEBERRY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Digital Marketing
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/02/1998, number: 1068007
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/1997, number: 03320296
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds 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; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR08: 5 days late, AR07: 45 days late,
Main office

3rd Floor
20 King Street
EC2V 8EG

Objectives

TO PROVIDE A PLACE OF SAFE REFUGE AND SUPPORT TO WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED AND PURSUANT TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONGST SUCH WOMEN THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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