Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

WOMEN@THEWELL

To promote the benefit of the women inhabitants of England and Wales and in particular vulnerable women by the relief of those who are in need, hardship or distress, the advancement of good health, the provision of a safe place and advice training and support services and by assisting in the provision of education, training and support in finding employment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • 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
31/12/23£746£658£88£35£218£1953.51510
31/12/22£691£650£41£34£130£671.21211
31/12/21£488£657£-169n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£776£755£21£42£259£1732.81534
31/12/19£804£755£49£30£238£12821536
31/12/18£670£682£-12£26£189£1071.9150
31/12/17£662£600£62£23£201£1292.6140
31/12/16£507£500£7£22£139£842120
31/12/15£406£402£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£349£412£-63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£339£395£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£248£384£-136n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£452£343£110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£200£287£-87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£231£201£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£310£149£161n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07*£203£34£169n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 3.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 3.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 18 years

www.watw.org.uk

janet.morris@watw.org.uk

02075201710

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • 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£418,973
City Bridge Trust£243,590
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£200,000
Henry Smith Charity£105,000
Comic Relief£83,461
Smallwood Trust£60,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Protecting frontline services for women 18+
£60,000 25/04/2024
36
Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to women@thewell
£243,590 06/04/2023
60
£243,590 over 5 years (£43,210; £45,800; £48,550; £51,470; £54,560) for a Senior Outreach Worker, external supervision and related project overheads.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Our Neighbourhood Fund 2022-2023
£90,000 28/03/2023
Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to women@thewell
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
London Catalyst - Women at the Well- 4
£1,500 15/11/2022
Day Centre - Hardship Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Team
£418,973 25/08/2022
The funding will be used to develop the project's outreach work with women affected by street-based prostitution and trafficking in the sex trade in the following throughout London. The project aims to work with women who have experienced trauma to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to women@thewell
£50,000 21/07/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of women@thewell
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 04/04/2022
Women@thewell DayCentre
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to women@thewell
£105,000 07/12/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for women affected by prostitution or trafficking throughout London.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Women@thewell
£2,000 12/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 17/02/2021
6
Women @ the Well are a registered charity that supports women in North London whose lives are affected by sex work. They offer a creative and supportive space for vulnerable women and aim to develop a holistic response to their needs and empower ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Women at the Well: core support
£90,000 01/12/2020
Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are ....more
Camden Giving - Women@thewell
£10,000 26/06/2020
3
The funding is to help women@thewell reopen services for women and towards the Support and Advocacy team as they reorganise our proceedures to allow us to offer women support in basic needs like food, showers and laundry as well as housing and ....more
Comic Relief - women@thewell Recovery Funding
£23,461 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
The London Community Foundation - Grant to women@thewell
£21,640 14/05/2020
The funding is for the way we are planning to deliver services differently for the coming six months; recruitment of a Support and Advice Team Leader, reception support so the team can deliver doorstep triage and one-to-one support, adjustments at ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£40,000 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Comic Relief - Delivering training co-developed by women affected by prostitution and trafficking
£60,000 21/01/2020
18
Women at the Well (W@TW) will build capacity across the system of services that surround women affected by trafficking, street-based prostitution & sexual violence. Current practices marginalise these women from mainstream provisions so, based ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Women@thewell
£105,000 09/05/2019
36
over three years towards the salary of a new caseworker, and core costs, for a charity working with women affected by prostitution, slavery and trafficking in London
DCMS - Tampon Tax Fund
£10,057 01/04/2019
to provide women with a credible exit strategy from prostitution
City Bridge Trust - Grant to women@thewell
£77,000 21/03/2019
24
£77,000 over two further years (£38,000; £39,000) towards salary costs of a Support and Advocacy Worker and running costs of a life-skills programme for women who have offended or are at risk of offending or re-offending.
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Connections; building trusting relationships
£44,150 28/02/2019
25
The project will develop their drop-in activities and build on existing delivery of activities and therapeutic services. They will also develop further links with external organisations in order to better support women who are involved in, or whose ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£30,000 04/02/2019
Women at the Well (W@TW) will build capacity across the system of services that surround women affected by trafficking, street-based prostitution & sexual violence. Current practices marginalise these women from mainstream provisions so, based ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£15,000 04/02/2019
Women at the Well (W@TW) will build capacity across the system of services that surround women affected by trafficking, street-based prostitution & sexual violence. Current practices marginalise these women from mainstream provisions so, based ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support over two years
£80,000 09/01/2019
24
Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are ....more
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£8,100 01/01/2019
Outputs: Over the year we will provide access to - 130 acupuncture sessions - 170 massage sessions - 260 reflexology sessions - 100 sessions of a new well being treatment, which will be decided in consultation with the women. - provision of at least ....more
DCMS - Tampon Tax Fund
£40,222 01/04/2018
to provide women with a credible exit strategy from prostitution
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to women@thewell
£74,392 30/11/2017
36
Women@theWell is a London charity providing centre based and outreach support to women involved in prostitution to help them to address a range of issues and to find ways to exit. It is seeking funding for a volunteer coordinator
Co-Operative Group - Grant to women@thewell
£4,364 04/08/2017
We will create an oasis where women affected by prostitution can come, be safe and start to rebuild their confidence and their lives.
DCMS - Tampon Tax Fund
£39,628 01/04/2017
to provide women with a credible exit strategy from prostitution
London Catalyst - Women at the Well - 2
£4,000 08/12/2016
Health and Well Being - massage and accupuncture therapies
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI Stage 2
£643,320 22/03/2016
60
The aim of the project is to support and empower women trapped in prostitution. The project will work with women involved in street-based prostitution including those trapped by organised crime and are enslaved within the sex trade industry. The ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to women@thewell
£105,000 23/09/2015
36
£105,000 over 3 years (£34,600; £34,800; £35,600) towards four days/week salary costs of a Senior Support Worker and running costs of a life skills programme for women who have offended or are at risk of offending or re-offending.
London Catalyst - Women at the Well - 1
£4,000 27/05/2015
Support for mental and physical well being of women through Chinese medicine, massage and pilates
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Women at the Well
£90,000 18/02/2015
36
Towards support for marginalised women in King's Cross, London to break free from prostitution, drugs and alcohol, homelessness and domestic abuse.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-79
  • AMY LOUISE DAUGHTON (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Professor
  • DR ANNA FRANCES ROWLANDS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lecturer
  • FIONA JANE DICK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Communications Consultant
  • JANET MORRIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Support Manager
  • MAUREEN MEATCHER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: President Of Board Of Union Of Catholic Mothers
  • SISTER MARY BERNADETTE HOLMES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Religious Sister
  • SARAH CECELIA TARIRO GALLOWAY Appointed: 2024
  • SISTER KATHLEEN HERON RSM Appointed: 2020
  • SR SUSAN BROWNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Religious Sister
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/2007, number: 1118613
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/01/2006, number: 05664659
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
17 returns made; AR07: 18 days late,
Main office

54-55 BIRKENHEAD STREET
LONDON
WC1H 8BB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE WOMEN INHABITANTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR VULNERABLE WOMEN BY THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOOD HEALTH, THE PROVISION OF A SAFE PLACE AND ADVICE TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICES, AND BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION TRAINING AND SUPPORT IN FINDING EMPLOYMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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