Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

WEST HAMPSTEAD WOMEN'S CENTRE 

We provide safe and supportive space for all women to meet and reduce isolation; activities aimed towards preventative health, education and Crisis Intervention; Asian and Somali women's group, Irish women's support group, Rape and Sexual Assualt Group,Nurse,CAB surgery,Asian Women's Health Calendar,Workshops, Volunteer's Project, Gardening Project, Massage, Cancer support Classes and Events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending is declining
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£363£160£202n/an/an/an/an/a54
31/03/22*£121£214£-94n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£274£213£61n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£233£255£-22n/an/an/an/an/a49
31/03/19£214£245£-31n/an/an/an/an/a57
31/03/18£263£258£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£235£236£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£233£250£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£253£248£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£215£240£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£192£185£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£214£171£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£179£197£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£182£209£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£134£197£-63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£417£238£179£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£348£222£126£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£275£252£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£241£228£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£144£197£-53£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 23 years

www.whwc.org.uk

info@whwc.org.uk

02073287389

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 54 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
Camden Giving£35,235
The London Community Foundation£4,655
DCMS£4,655
Greater London Authority£2,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Camden Giving - West Hampstead Women's Centre
£30,000 16/06/2022
West Hampstead Women’s Centre (WHWC) promotes equality of opportunity and we are committed to racial equality through embedding and implementing inclusive culture and a robust equal opportunities ....more
Camden Giving - West Hampstead Women's Centre
£1,500 11/08/2021
West Hampstead Women’s Centre (WHWC) provides a wide variety of services to empower women, to relieve poverty among women, to prevent isolation and to improve women’s quality of life.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to West Hampstead Women's Centre
£4,655 20/08/2020
The funding is for PPE, sneeze guard and partition, equipment, additional cleaning materials and extra cleaner's hours to enable West Hampstead Women™s Centre to deliver activities safely and ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,655 20/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Camden Giving - West Hampstead Women's Centre
£3,735 08/06/2020
2
This project wil continue to provide daily advocacy support by phone. In addition, they have introduced weekly general advice Q&A sessions where women can join via Zoom or on the phone to get ....more
Greater London Authority - "Legs, Bums and Tums"
£2,800 01/07/2019
We will run 12 weekly hour-long "Legs, Bums and Tums" (LBT) exercise sessions for 20 women at our premises. We have been running LBT classes since last October for women aged 60+, which are ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Womens' Resilience
£469,498 04/04/2016
60
A project to support disadvantaged black, minority and ethnic women. The scheme will include crisis support,intervention and advocacy, a daily drop-in, telephone or email advice service to provide ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Bridging Communities Volunteer Project
£201,790 20/11/2012
60
The project will develop practical and employment based skills for hard to reach vulnerable, unemployed women who are lacking basic skills, formal education, self confidence and motivation. It will ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to West Hampstead Women's Centre
£59,100 12/09/2012
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Giving and Gaining Project', for disadvantaged and marginalised women from BME communities in the London Borough of Camden
Nationwide Foundation - Grant to West Hampstead Women's Centre
£5,000 26/01/2011
Running costs of a drop-in crisis intervention service and help-line for survivors of domestic abuse and older women in relation to housing and finance support
National Lottery Community Fund - Isolation to Integration - Strengthening the Core
£343,339 08/12/2010
60
This project in West Hampstead supports marginalised women through the provision of crisis intervention, education and healthy living activities. The daily drop in and crisis intervention service ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 27-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/2001, number: 1085824
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/02/2000, number: 03919511
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 153 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR07: 14 days late, AR06: 0 days late,
Main office

West Hampstead Womens Centre
26-30 Cotleigh Road
London
NW6 2NP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN IN AND AROUND THE AREA KNOWN AS CAMDEN BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, INCLUDING THE PROMOTION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST WOMEN IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION ABOUT HEALTH, WELFARE, HOUSING AND OTHER SOCIAL BENEFITS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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