WEST MERCIA WOMEN'S AID 

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Herefordshire Community Foundation - What I wish you knew: increasing understanding of the impact of domestic abuse for Herefordshire’s public sector
£5,796	17/10/2023	Grant to West Mercia Women's Aid
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Grant to West Mercia Women's Aid
£260	31/05/2023	Grant to West Mercia Women's Aid
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Laptop
£500	07/09/2022	Grant to West Mercia Women's Aid
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£58,465	03/07/2020	"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."
Comic Relief - The Sotaria Project ? online training Recovery Funding
£4,748	23/06/2020	COVID19 - The development of online training materials to support the work that we are doing to promote a greater understanding of the impact of domestic abuse in relation to women's offending ....more COVID19 - The development of online training materials to support the work that we are doing to promote a greater understanding of the impact of domestic abuse in relation to women's offending behaviour. The training will be primarily for magistrates and professionals working with female offenders in the four authorities of West Mercia. This will support the delivery of the Soteria Project, also funded by Comic Relief, by enabling us to use content - illustrated by local case studies and shaped by our service users - that we have developed with our partners Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service. The restrictions on travel and gatherings in person due to the COVID-19 crisis is preventing us from delivering face-to-face training to promote understanding of the impact of domestic abuse at a time when women's experience of domestic abuse is amplified. We need to do this now more than ever.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to West Mercia Women's Aid
£5,000	11/06/2020	COVID19 : Purchase furniture and equipment for a charity working providing refuge accommodation to victims and survivors of domestic abuse across West Midlands
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund
£51,483	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
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Grant to West Mercia Womens Aid
£4,560	27/05/2020 6	additional cost of delivering services remotely
DCMS - The Sotaria Project
£51,126	01/04/2019	West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise ....more West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on women offenders; improve how they include abuse in their pre-sentencing reporting and develop alternatives to custody and prison sentencing, and pre-release support. Advice, accommodation and practical support will be provided to women exiting custody to return to the West Mercia region safely, to reduce the risk of further abuse and support their resettlement. The grant will fund two link workers and associated overhead, project and evaluation costs
DCMS - The Sotaria Project
£51,126	10/12/2018	West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise ....more West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on women offenders; improve how they include abuse in their pre-sentencing reporting and develop alternatives to custody and prison sentencing, and pre-release support. Advice, accommodation and practical support will be provided to women exiting custody to return to the West Mercia region safely, to reduce the risk of further abuse and support their resettlement. The grant will fund two link workers and associated overhead, project and evaluation costs
DCMS - The Sotaria Project
£34,084	10/12/2018	West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise ....more West Mercia Womens Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on women offenders; improve how they include abuse in their pre-sentencing reporting and develop alternatives to custody and prison sentencing, and pre-release support. Advice, accommodation and practical support will be provided to women exiting custody to return to the West Mercia region safely, to reduce the risk of further abuse and support their resettlement. The grant will fund two link workers and associated overhead, project and evaluation costs
Comic Relief - The Sotaria Project
£102,252	06/11/2018 24	West Mercia Women’s Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise ....more West Mercia Women’s Aid and Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service will provide training, information and support to the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company staff to raise understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on women offenders; improve how they include abuse in their pre-sentencing reporting and develop alternatives to custody and prison sentencing, and pre-release support. Advice, accommodation and practical support will be provided to women exiting custody to return to the West Mercia region safely, to reduce the risk of further abuse and support their resettlement. The grant will fund two link workers and associated overhead, project and evaluation costs
DCMS - Ask Me Plus
£50,000	01/11/2018	The Ask Me Plus project will expand and develop the Womens Aid Federations Ask Me pilot project which aims to prevent and reduce the harm caused by domestic abuse.

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Trustees (12)

Legal constitution

• Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/12/1999, number: 1078496
• Registered at Companies House on 07/09/1999, number: 03837084

Gift Aid

• Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Filing Record

Main office

West Mercia Womens Aid
Berrows Business Centre
Bath Street
Hereford
HR1 2HE

Objectives

The Charity is established for the benefit of abused women and their children and is working to end violence against women. The Charity believes that violence against women is an obstacle to the achievement of equality and development. The Charity understands that violence against women is both a cause and a consequence of women’s unequal position in society. The Charity believes that violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms.2.1 The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit to:(a) relieve the distress and increase the safety of women and children who have experienced or are exposed to domestic abuse by the provision of specialist support, advice, temporary accommodation, grants of money, items, facilities and any other services or activities that may relieve their circumstances and protect their mental and physical health;(b) relieve the distress and increase the safety of anyone who has experienced or is exposed to domestic abuse by the provision of specialist support, advice, temporary accommodation, grants of money, items, facilities and any other services or activities that may relieve their circumstances and protect their mental and physical health, on the basis that such activities ultimately benefit women and children by improved understanding and the reduction of domestic violence;(c) work in partnership with third sector, statutory and other relevant agencies to promote and facilitate effective responses to domestic abuse; and(d) inform and educate agencies, organisations and the general public through talks, training and publicity about the causes, effects and prevention of domestic abuse and about the services provided by the Charity and to undertake or contribute to research into such matters and to publish the useful results of such research.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE HEREFORDSHIRE