Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 5

WISH

WISH provides support and services to women with mental health needs within the Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems, and in the community; and influences local and national policy and practice.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£242	£237	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£217	£258	£-41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21		£233	£233	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/20	*	£178	£150	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19		£169	£157	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£172	£156	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£157	£180	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£178	£159	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£249	£235	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£370	£308	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£370	£308	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£304	£312	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£206	£203	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£272	£276	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£431	£425	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£397	£406	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£415	£404	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£422	£420	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£463	£446	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£438	£448	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 28 years

www.womenatwish.org.uk

info@womenatwish.org.uk

02089803618

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Rosa UK	£18,750
DCMS	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,400
CAF	£4,250
London Catalyst	£2,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Community Link Project
£9,400	18/08/2023	This project will support women resettling in London after leaving prison or secure hospital (when detained under the Mental Health Act). It aims to stop the revolving door of re-offending and ....more This project will support women resettling in London after leaving prison or secure hospital (when detained under the Mental Health Act). It aims to stop the revolving door of re-offending and detention. It will fund the specialist staff team to deliver advice; counselling and coaching for another 12 months. It offers intensive casework to help women address contributory factors to mental ill-health such as poor housing; addiction; poverty; abusive relationships and family issues.
Rosa UK - WTF-WISH-2021
£18,750	28/06/2021	£18,750 has been awarded to Wish to contine running its Community Link project which supports women with complex and multiple issues (including mental health problems) who are leaving prison in ....more £18,750 has been awarded to Wish to contine running its Community Link project which supports women with complex and multiple issues (including mental health problems) who are leaving prison in London.
London Catalyst - Wish - 1
£2,600	11/11/2020	Free, gender-specific and trauma-informed counselling for women with complex needs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	28/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to Wish charity
£4,250	08/06/2020 3	Grant to Wish charity to support the organisation through COVID19
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to WISH
£60,000	05/12/2013 24	towards two years' running costs of the Community Link Intensive Support Project for women with mental health problems in the prison system in London and the South East of England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Women in Secure Hospitals
£60,000	29/01/2013	Towards the Why Gender Matters project - to work with the sector to improve mental health services for women and share best practice.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to WISH (Women in Secure Hospitals)
£36,000	25/08/2011	the costs of the Intensive Support Service including the salary and on costs of the Intensive Support Service Manager, volunteers training, supervision and expenses and office and management costs

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

TRACY PIERCY Appointed: 2024

ALEXANDRA PHILLIPS Appointed: 2020

CHRISTINE PAULINE SPOONER Appointed: 2019

SARAH WILSON Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/04/1996, number: 1054621
Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: 03161744

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; AR20: 25 days late, AR17: 32 days late, AR16: 66 days late, AR12: 6 days late, AR10: 15 days late, AR06: 49 days late, AR04: 164 days late,

Main office

15 Old Ford Road
London
E2 9PL

Objectives

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”). FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN PRISONS, SECURE UNITS OR SIMILAR UNITS; TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH OF SUCH WOMEN AND OF WOMEN WHO ARE AT RISK OF ENTERING THE MENTAL HEALTH AND/OR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS; TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT AND TO CARRY OUT, PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE NEEDS OF SUCH WOMEN AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RAISE AWARENESS IN GENDER EQUALITY IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS; ANDTO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTIVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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