Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE 

The Women's Resource Centre is a charity which supports women's organisations to be more effective and sustainable. We provide training, information, resources and one-to-one support on a range of organisational development issues. We also lobby decision makers on behalf of the women's not-for-profit sector for improved representation and funding.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities
  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 26 years
(34 years as a company)

www.wrc.org.uk

admin@wrc.org.uk

02076973450

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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£656£663£-7£31£248£112282
31/03/22£652£827£-175£31£254£1041.591
31/03/21£1,003£642£361£41£430£109273
31/03/20£415£578£-163n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£557£637£-80£8£232£1823.470
31/03/18£654£697£-43£9£311£1953.4100
31/03/17£963£867£96£7£355£2133100
31/03/16£779£801£-22£6£259£2183.3110
31/03/15£725£763£-38£16£280£2353.750
31/03/14£904£885£19£19£318£2914110
31/03/13£683£684£-1£18£299£2534.4130
31/03/12£692£741£-49£32£300£2444150
31/03/11£1,253£1,280£-26£49£349£3102.9230
31/03/10£1,237£1,208£29£20£375£3483.5190
31/03/09£1,154£1,084£70£11£346£1481.6200
31/03/08£565£651£-86£19£276£2564.780
31/03/07£959£843£116£5£362£2894.190
31/03/06£744£699£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£495£430£65£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£456£411£46£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 45%
Reserves/Spending: 2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
  • 2 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
Comic Relief£276,000
National Lottery Community Fund£179,193
Smallwood Trust£105,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£80,600
City Bridge Trust£50,947
Rosa UK£50,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£31,625
The London Community Foundation£26,472
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Delivering Services to Women
£105,000 21/12/2022
A pilot project to facilitate and develop a Greater Manchester Women's Media Hub (GMWMH) where marginalised, poor, working class, Black and Minority Ethnic women from the Manchester Women's Network ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Exhale Retreat
£4,500 26/08/2021
3
Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) work to ensure that the lived experience of women and girls inform policy and practice through a well-resourced and sustainably supported women’s sector. This grant ....more
Rosa UK - WTF-WRC-2021
£50,000 12/07/2021
£50,000 has been awarded to Women's Resource Centre to support the Network for Black Women Leaders for women from the African diaspora across the UK. The project aims to support women’s ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - National Programmes grant to Women's Resource Centre
£31,625 25/06/2021
12
One year grant to Women's Resource Centre under the National domestic and sexual abuse grant programme.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£2,000 08/04/2021
in order to support you to ensure the London Community Response increases its reach
Comic Relief - Black and Minoritised Women's Fund
£276,000 26/01/2021
COVID19 - We will prioritise organisations led by and for women of African descent, but the programme will be open to all women's organisations who are led by and for communities experiencing racial ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Protecting women & girls against increased vulnerabilities due to Covid-19
£79,180 13/11/2020
6
The funding will allow the project to support small and diverse women’s organisations with the skills and information needed to sustain and develop their services improve fundraising capabilities ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£48,947 13/08/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application to adapt support to specialise VAWG providers by moving to digital governance and maintaining digital communication and strategic advocacy to ensure the ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£26,472 07/05/2020
To increase our support to London Women’s organisations in response to heightened and different needs as a result of COVID-19, by moving training into webinar format, increasing our online forums ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Civil Society Roots
£100,013 02/03/2020
23
The funding will be used to support capacity building, strengthening of networks, collaboration and the development and building of a collective voice with London based women's civil society ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£80,600 07/08/2019
Sisters Doing It For Themselves
London Councils - The ASCENT project (This stands for Amplifying, Supporting, Capacity building, Engaging, Networking, Training)
£963,132 15/02/2017
48
ASCENT is part of the Pan London VAWG Consortium and will specifically address the long term sustainability needs of the provision of services to those affected by sexual and domestic violence ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£220,000 24/05/2016
36
£220,000 over three years (£85,000; £75,000; £60,000) towards securing the long-term sustainability of the London VAWG Consortium.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£25,000 09/07/2015
£25,000 over 6 months towards the preparation of a business case for a third sector Women's Building.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Women's Resource Centre
£500,000 05/03/2015
36
Towards a new Women’s Sector Commissioning Support Unit to support the sector to access commissioning processes and help develop consortia.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Making Women’s Equality Real: women’s sector asks
£24,300 09/02/2015
5
To support a partnership of women's organisations to campaign together
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 53-62
  • SHARON FACEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Acting Chair Of Wrc / Counsellor
  • ARLENE RIVET Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Data Administrator Clerk
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/1998, number: 1070606
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/01/1990, number: 02462336
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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Womens Resource Centre
United House
North Road
London
N7 9DP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF WOMEN WHO ARE IN NEED BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION AND SUCH OTHER ASSISTANCE AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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