Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

TOGETHER WOMEN PROJECTS (YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE)

Reduce women's offending & re-offending.Influence decision-making by Criminal Justice System partners positively to reduce number of women given custodial sentences or remanded into custody &increase the number of women diverted from prosecution.Increase number of women accessing & being sustained in appropriate community provision.Reduce number of avoidable family breakdowns.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • 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*£2,288£2,130£158£0£1,009£7884.45315
31/03/22£2,352£1,948£404£0£851£7814.85048
31/03/21£1,676£1,542£133£0£447£3973.14825
31/03/20£1,420£1,397£23£0£314£1661.44655
31/03/19£1,344£1,289£55£0£291£890.84084
31/03/18£1,272£1,255£18£0£237£330.3410
31/03/17*£1,136£1,204£-68£0£219£3373.4420
31/03/16£1,262£1,259£4£0£287£3753.6460
31/03/15£1,367£1,354£13£4£283£2862.5420
31/03/14£833£822£11£4£271£2703.9230
31/03/13£874£873£1£4£260£2593.6240
31/03/12£1,011£1,041£-30£4£259£2583240
31/03/11*£1,377£1,260£117£46£289£2892.8290
31/03/10*£1,225£1,053£172£43£172£1722240

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

www.togetherwomen.org

admin@togetherwomen.org

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Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City, Kingston Upon Hull City, Leeds City, Rotherham, Sheffield City,
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
Comic Relief£110,000
Smallwood Trust£103,000
DCMS£36,135
Barrow Cadbury Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Barrow Cadbury Trust - National Women’s Justice Coalition- Development Manager staff costs
£20,000 30/01/2024
12
To support the development of Women's Centre leadership
Smallwood Trust - Supporting women at risk of poverty build key financial and employability skills
£75,000 09/06/2023
31
Enabling financially vulnerable women to access a package of financial, employability and confidence building support through the delivery of LifeSkills sessions, empowering them to thrive and be more financially resilient.
Smallwood Trust - Funding used to support organisational needs to strengthen role as distributor of grants to individuals
£15,000 04/04/2023
33
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £75,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder ....more
Smallwood Trust - Funding used to support organisational needs to strengthen role as distributor of grants to individuals
£7,000 16/12/2022
12
A one-off payment (Uplift Grant) to support organisation's operations and overheads, as well as the provision of grants to service users during the cost-of -living crisis
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£1,000 10/05/2022
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support ....more
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£5,000 16/12/2021
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 01/07/2020
This group work in Hull to intervene before women enter into the criminal justice system and also to assist first time offenders. This project is intended to help women specifically experiencing mental health issues. Funding will pay for staff time ....more
Comic Relief - Together Women Project (Yorkshire and Humber)Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Together Women Project 2020
£6,000 07/05/2020
To help with the delivery of new programmes
DCMS - SAFE in Hull (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 01/04/2020
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence and abuse. This grant will contribute funding to a ....more
Comic Relief - Restore Project
£70,000 21/01/2020
12
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the statutory Liaison & Diversion pathway of the criminal ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted to the Inside out Project
£7,500 01/08/2019
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of the 'Inside Out' Project working in prisons.
DCMS - SAFE in Hull ? (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 01/04/2019
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence and abuse. This grant will contribute funding to a ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£35,000 04/02/2019
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the statutory Liaison & Diversion pathway of the criminal ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£23,333 04/02/2019
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the statutory Liaison & Diversion pathway of the criminal ....more
Ministry of Justice - Community Investment Fund
£52,190 01/01/2019
To improve current service provision across West Yorkshire for women affected by a cycle of repeat offending, mental health problems and homelessness underpinned by experience of domestic abuse
DCMS - SAFE in Hull ? (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 10/12/2018
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence and abuse. This grant will contribute funding to a ....more
DCMS - SAFE in Hull (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£27,101 10/12/2018
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence and abuse. This grant will contribute funding to a ....more
Comic Relief - SAFE in Hull – (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£108,404 06/11/2018
36
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence and abuse. This grant will contribute funding to a ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards the Inside out Project
£10,000 01/08/2018
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of the 'Inside Out' Project working in prisons.
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£4,000 18/10/2017
Advice and information, training, mentoring, advocacy and resettlement support for women involved in the criminal justice system.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - East Riding diversion from court project
£9,433 25/09/2017
Funding to enable Together Women to expand their work in to the East Riding enabling them to support more vulnerable women.
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards the 'Inside Out' Project
£12,500 07/06/2017
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of the 'Inside Out' Project working in prisons.
National Lottery Community Fund - From Hell to Hull
£10,000 23/09/2016
12
From Hell to Hull
National Lottery Community Fund - Emerge
£306,439 27/07/2016
36
This project will focus on an emerging community of women from Eastern Europe who live in Sheffield, Bradford and Leeds and are becoming increasingly marginalised. These women will be either refugees, migrants or long-term stays who are unable to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI stage 2
£1,238,716 22/03/2016
60
Vulnerable young girls who may be at risk of falling into harmful behaviours will be supported at an early stage in their teenage years. Consultation identified key triggers which start negative behaviour such as inter-generational impacts, poor ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - New Way Forward: Early Intervention for Women at Risk of Crime
£266,535 17/10/2012
36
This project will increase life chances for vulnerable women at risk of committing crime in specific local communities in Sheffield and Leeds. It will do this by providing early intervention that diverts them from crime and improves their health, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-75
  • ALISON NATALIE KAY LOWE Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • CLAIRE VILARRUBI Appointed: 2012, Occupation: N/A
  • DR ALEXANDRIA BRADLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Criminology Lecturer
  • DR CHLOE JOANNA WILSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Lecturer In Law
  • JENNIFER COLEMAN-PEERS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Social Impact Consultant
  • LINDA CHRISTINE BAINES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • NATALIE LOUISE RUTTER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Lecturer
  • PERMINDERJEET KAUR BANWAIT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Managing Director
  • RACHEL DAVIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Probation Officer
  • REBECCA CHALONER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Civil Servant
  • ROSIE MCKNIGHT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Student
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/2009, number: 1128892
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/02/2009, number: 06814757
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR23: 14 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 1 days late,
Main office

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Objectives

TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, PARTICULARLY WOMEN WHO HAVE OFFENDED OR ARE AT RISK OF OFFENDING BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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