Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION

Providing accessible, quality and gender sensitive enterprise; employment, education, management development services to women. Supporting women in the improvement of health and wellbeing. Stimulating research to support women's economic development. Influencing policy to improve the position of women. Delivering gender friendly incubator and meeting spaces.Maintaining a sustainable organisation
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

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£6,663£5,999£664£117£5,976£3,0606.1473
31/12/22£5,468£4,937£531£117£5,313£2,3605.7562
31/12/21£5,670£5,219£451£69£4,619£1,6283.7503
31/12/20£4,850£4,736£114£73£4,168£1,1332.9402
31/12/19£3,872£3,781£91£113£4,216£8052.6352
31/12/18£3,284£3,079£204£179£4,125£6712.6410
31/12/17£3,301£2,869£431£176£3,921£3901.6340
31/12/16£1,285£1,914£-629£131£3,490£1831.1270
31/12/15£2,095£2,086£9£10£4,118£1681250
31/12/14£1,547£1,536£10£8£4,140£1351.1230
31/12/13£1,315£1,279£36£8£4,130£790.7220
31/12/12£1,049£1,165£-116£8£4,094£10200
31/12/11£1,457£1,145£312£7£4,332£2042.1270
31/12/10£4,239£1,635£2,604£6£4,020£1961.4300
31/12/09*£3,074£1,416£1,658£1,551£1,416£1461.2360

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 49%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 51%
Reserves/Spending: 6.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

www.thewomensorganisation.org.uk

info@thewo.org.uk

01517068111

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department of Health£187,138
National Lottery Community Fund£95,670
DCMS£87,436
Smallwood Trust£57,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Funding used to support organisational needs to strengthen role as distributor of grants to individuals
£9,000 05/04/2023
33
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder ....more
Smallwood Trust - Funding to support Community Grant Partners' employability programmes for individual women
£30,000 05/04/2023
33
This funding will be used to increase individual women's proximity to the labour market with a view to securing sustainable employment opportunities. 
Department of Health - The Women's Organisation
£187,138 16/12/2022
The Health and Wellbeing (HW) Programme is a joint initiative managed by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) and (soon to be confirmed UKHSA) (the system partners), providing a framework for ....more
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£18,000 16/12/2021
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£87,436 04/06/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Progress to Success- Change I (2)
£95,670 12/12/2019
11
The organisation supports women and delivers a range of services that helps to upskill them. Funding will go towards a bespoke programme of activities that aims to boost the confidence of beneficiaries and preparing them for work
National Lottery Community Fund - Liv/2/2 - Better Off Finance (BOF)
£1,055,027 22/09/2016
36
The funding will be used for a project that will aim to improve the financial skills of the hardest to reach people across the Liverpool City Region LEP area. It will support those furthest away from the labour market to become more job ready ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Progress to Success
£422,587 27/07/2016
36
The group will use the funding for a new project that will provide local women with advice and support around wellbeing and health, employment, education and development services. The project will also provide training in literacy, confidence, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Liv/2/2 - Better Off Finance (BOF)
£40,539 26/04/2016
12
This grant will be used to develop plans for a project that aims to improve participant’s financial literacy and will prepare them to progress to employment or training. There will be a range of activities including a confidence programme and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Women's Organisation
£102,200 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to women with mental health problems in deprived areas of Liverpool
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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: 37-78
  • ALEX MORGAN Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Paralegal
  • GILLIAN ANNE MOGLIONE Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Manager - Voluntary Sector
  • JULIE ANN GILLESPIE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Corporate Banker
  • JAYNE CROFT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor
  • LISA PEARSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Marketing Director
  • MONA MEALEY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Accountant
  • SUSAN OSHIKANLU (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Finance Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/01/2009, number: 1127631
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/09/2008, number: 06706841
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
15 returns made; AR09: 198 days late,
Main office

54 ST. JAMES STREET
LIVERPOOL
LIVERPOOL
L1 0AB

Objectives

3.1 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND THE PROVISION OF MANAGED WORK SPACE AND OTHER SERVICES TO SUPPORT BUSINESS START AND DEVELOPMENT.3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN AREAS THAT WILL ENHANCE THEIR ECONOMIC POTENTIAL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY BELIEVES FIT INCLUDING: THE PROVISION OF PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PROVISION OF CARER AND TRAVEL COSTS TO SUPPORT ACCESS TO THE CHARITY'S LEARNING PROGRAMMES; PROVISION OF GRANTS TO PREPARE FOR ENTRY INTO SELF-EMPLOYMENT FOLLOWING THE CHARITY'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES.3.3 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF THEIR POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF ENSURING THAT THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE ARE IMPROVED.3.4 THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY, AND CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC.3.5 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, TRAINING, EDUCATION, COUNSELLING AND PRACTICAL

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINDED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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