Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

WELL WOMEN CENTRE 

We are a holistic women's centre working to improve the health and wellbeing of women in Wakefield District. We offer mental health services for women, including counselling and therapeutic groups and courses. We work with young women at risk of sexual exploitation, and we also work with women offenders and women at risk of offending. We have a complementary therapy clinic.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 19 years

www.wellwomenwomen.org.uk

governance@wellwomenwakefield.org.uk

01924211114

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£874£873£2£0£362£2954.1314
31/03/22£670£674£-3£2£380£3045.42111
31/03/21£612£591£21£12£383£3026.11920
31/03/20£607£609£-1£2£362£2685.32122
31/03/19£630£555£75£0£364£1633.52320
31/03/18£626£577£49£0£289£851.8220
31/03/17*£457£495£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£449£442£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£357£376£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£303£325£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£283£306£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£338£297£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£341£329£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£480£438£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£333£296£37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£190£188£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£185£214£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£168£172£-4£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 4.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of Wakefield,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 31 employees
  • 4 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
National Lottery Community Fund£294,934
Tudor Trust£137,000
Henry Smith Charity£126,800
DCMS£49,587
Charles Hayward Foundation£48,500
The Pilgrim Trust£43,380
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£10,444
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to WellWomen Centre Wakefield
£24,500 29/04/2022
A salary of Caseworker to provide emotional and practical support to women with complex needs who have experienced domestic abuse or criminal exploitation
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Impact Plus
£294,934 19/11/2021
The funding will provide a continuation of counselling casework and support services for women in Wakefield. The project 'Positive Impact Plus’ will increase provision for BAME women strengthen ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to WellWomen Centre Wakefield
£24,000 26/03/2021
A salary of Caseworker to provide emotional and practical support to women with complex needs who have experienced domestic abuse or criminal exploitation
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Well Women Centre
£126,800 18/03/2021
36
towards three years' salary of a Casework Manager and Caseworker for a project providing counselling and group support to women and girls in Wakefield who have experienced domestic abuse or trauma.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Well Women Centre
£43,380 03/03/2021
36
Casework service providing emotional and practical support for women recovering from trauma.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Well Women Centre
£2,000 11/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,587 11/08/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£25,000 31/07/2020
Well Women Together
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Well Women Centre
£10,444 24/07/2020
Grant to Well Women Centre meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Leeds Community Foundation - Covid-19
£10,000 24/04/2020
Grant to Well Women Centre
Tudor Trust - Grant to Well Women Centre
£135,000 08/11/2019
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over three years towards the chief executive's salary at a women's centre supporting vulnerable women in Wakefield
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£8,369 01/01/2019
Impact The impact of this project reaches much further than the women attending the sessions. Women will build better connections in their community and develop strategies to enable safe, healthy ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Well Women Centre
£8,369 10/12/2018
Funding to support a series of sessions that help with the complex needs faced by South Asian women living in Wakefield. The programme of activity has been developed by the service users and will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Well Women Centre
£75,000 28/11/2017
36
towards the salary of a Caseworker to support with women who have experienced trauma as they transition through their recovery from violence and historic abuse.
Comic Relief - Tipping Point
£35,328 30/11/2016
24
Well Women Wakefield provides a wide range of services to local women including counselling, self-help courses, group work and complementary therapies, work with women offenders and those who have ....more
DCMS - Tipping Point
£17,664 30/11/2016
Well Women Wakefield provides a wide range of services to local women including counselling, self-help courses, group work and complementary therapies, work with women offenders and those who have ....more
DCMS - Tipping Point
£17,664 30/11/2016
Well Women Wakefield provides a wide range of services to local women including counselling, self-help courses, group work and complementary therapies, work with women offenders and those who have ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Impact
£472,432 09/03/2015
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 46-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/01/2005, number: 1107523
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/08/2004, number: 05206205
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
18 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR07: 20 days late, AR06: 2 days late,
Main office

Well Women Centre
24 Trinity Church Gate
WAKEFIELD
WF1 1TX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF THE WOMEN IN WAKEFIELD REGARDLESS OF AGE, CLASS, CULTURE, RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR MEDICO-SOCIAL NEED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WAKEFIELD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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