Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

EQUALITY NOW

Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world. Working with national women's rights organisations and individual activists, we document violence and discrimination against women and girls and add an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£2,085£2,381£-296£0£784£6443.2170
31/12/22£2,295£1,809£486£0£1,081£8465.6130
31/12/21£1,478£1,263£215£0£595£960.990
31/12/20£982£1,015£-32£0£379£3754.490
31/12/19£1,217£1,010£207£0£411£3153.7106
31/12/18£1,601£1,836£-235£0£204£1491100
31/12/17£1,365£1,015£350£27£439£180.270
31/12/16£621£600£20£11£89£-53-1.170
31/12/15£1,821£1,837£-16£4£69£-95-0.670
31/12/14£595£529£66£44£84£461.160
31/12/13£428£471£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£494£461£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£243£287£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£192£256£-64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£311£275£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£245£277£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£359£264£96n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£159£147£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£156£157£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 42%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 7.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 20 years

www.equalitynow.org

ukinfo@equalitynow.org

02073046902

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Comic Relief - Protekt Wi Gal Pikin Dem: Addressing sexual violence and discrimination against adolescent girls
£444,465 17/03/2020
36
This programme will address multiple & acute forms of violence experienced by girls in & around primary schools Sierra Leone, with a particular focus on Sexual Violence. It will be delivered in three areas: Bo, Kenema & Freetown & ....more

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: 54-66
  • CHADIA EL MEOUCHI Appointed: 2022
  • DIANE FEENEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Owner
  • JULIA MARY MIDDLETON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Founder
  • PATRICIA AMIRA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Media Specialist
  • SHARMILA SINHA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • YASMIN WALJEE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hogan Lovells International Pro Bono Director And
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/01/2005, number: 1107613
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/10/2003, number: 04926476
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
  • 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
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

c/o Azets Holdings Ltd
Burnham Yard
London End
BEACONSFIELD
Buckinghamshire
HP9 2JH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (AS DEFINED IN THIS CLAUSE) OF WOMEN AND IN PARTICULAR:1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE MAINTENANCE AND OBSERVANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;2. TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, BY DISSEMINATING MATERIALS REGARDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE VIOLATION OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;3. TO PROCURE, THROUGH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY, THE ABOLITION OF DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN;4. TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO NEEDY VICTIMS OF BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY WOMEN;DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS THOSE HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH:(1) CONSTITUTE FREEDOM FROM GENOCIDE, SLAVERY OR THE SLAVE TRADE, UNLAWFUL FORCED LABOUR, EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING OR TORTURE; OR(2) ARE ENSHRINED OR INCORPORATED INTO THE DOMESTIC LAW OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT IS SOUGHT TO PROMOTE THOSE RIGHTS; OR(3) DEFINED IN ANY INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON HUMAN RIGHTS (INCLUDING THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS OF 1950, AND ANY SUCH DECLARATION RESOLUTION OR CONVENTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR ANY OF ITS ORGANS OR AGENCIES OR ANY TREATY OR INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY ANY MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER ARTICLE 102(1) OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, INCLUDING IN ALL CASES ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENT AND ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT AND INCLUDING THOSE RULES AND LAWS WHICH FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND WHICH MAY BE DESCRIBED AS INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW WHICH CAN BE ENFORCED IN RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL).INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS ANY RIGHTS SECURED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, WHICH DO NOT FALL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WORLDWIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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