Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

TOGETHER WOMEN PROJECTS (YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE) 

Reduce women's offending & re-offending.Influence decision-making by Criminal Justice System partners positively to reduce number of women given custodial sentences or remanded into custody &increase the number of women diverted from prosecution.Increase number of women accessing & being sustained in appropriate community provision.Reduce number of avoidable family breakdowns.
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Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 15 years

www.togetherwomen.org

admin@togetherwomen.org

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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*£2,288£2,130£158£0£1,009£7884.45315
31/03/22£2,352£1,948£404£0£851£7814.85048
31/03/21£1,676£1,542£133£0£447£3973.14825
31/03/20£1,420£1,397£23£0£314£1661.44655
31/03/19£1,344£1,289£55£0£291£890.84084
31/03/18£1,272£1,255£18£0£237£330.3410
31/03/17*£1,136£1,204£-68£0£219£3373.4420
31/03/16£1,262£1,259£4£0£287£3753.6460
31/03/15£1,367£1,354£13£4£283£2862.5420
31/03/14£833£822£11£4£271£2703.9230
31/03/13£874£873£1£4£260£2593.6240
31/03/12£1,011£1,041£-30£4£259£2583240
31/03/11*£1,377£1,260£117£46£289£2892.8290
31/03/10*£1,225£1,053£172£43£172£1722240

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City, Kingston Upon Hull City, Leeds City, Rotherham, Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 53 employees
  • 15 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
Comic Relief£110,000
DCMS£36,135
Two Ridings Community Foundation£10,000
The Bromley Trust£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£1,000 10/05/2022
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 ....more
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£5,000 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 ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 01/07/2020
This group work in Hull to intervene before women enter into the criminal justice system and also to assist first time offenders. This project is intended to help women specifically experiencing ....more
Comic Relief - Together Women Project (Yorkshire and Humber)Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Together Women Project 2020
£6,000 07/05/2020
To help with the delivery of new programmes
DCMS - SAFE in Hull (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 01/04/2020
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence ....more
Comic Relief - Restore Project
£70,000 21/01/2020
12
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted to the Inside out Project
£7,500 01/08/2019
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of ....more
DCMS - SAFE in Hull ? (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 01/04/2019
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£35,000 04/02/2019
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the ....more
DCMS - CR TTX 3
£23,333 04/02/2019
The Restore Project has been designed to meet the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage. It will offer two new dedicated Caseworkers to support women referred for help through the ....more
Ministry of Justice - Community Investment Fund
£52,190 01/01/2019
To improve current service provision across West Yorkshire for women affected by a cycle of repeat offending, mental health problems and homelessness underpinned by experience of domestic abuse
DCMS - SAFE in Hull ? (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£36,135 10/12/2018
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence ....more
DCMS - SAFE in Hull (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£27,101 10/12/2018
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence ....more
Comic Relief - SAFE in Hull – (Supporting, Aspiring, Fulfilling, Empowering)
£108,404 06/11/2018
36
Together Women Project works with women with multiple and complex needs, many of whom are involved with the criminal justice system. The majority of those it works with report experience of violence ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards the Inside out Project
£10,000 01/08/2018
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of ....more
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£4,000 18/10/2017
Advice and information, training, mentoring, advocacy and resettlement support for women involved in the criminal justice system.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - East Riding diversion from court project
£9,433 25/09/2017
Funding to enable Together Women to expand their work in to the East Riding enabling them to support more vulnerable women.
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards the 'Inside Out' Project
£12,500 07/06/2017
12
Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex needs across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North of England. This is a one year grant restricted to the work of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - From Hell to Hull
£10,000 23/09/2016
12
From Hell to Hull
National Lottery Community Fund - Emerge
£306,439 27/07/2016
36
This project will focus on an emerging community of women from Eastern Europe who live in Sheffield, Bradford and Leeds and are becoming increasingly marginalised. These women will be either ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI stage 2
£1,238,716 22/03/2016
60
Vulnerable young girls who may be at risk of falling into harmful behaviours will be supported at an early stage in their teenage years. Consultation identified key triggers which start negative ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - New Way Forward: Early Intervention for Women at Risk of Crime
£266,535 17/10/2012
36
This project will increase life chances for vulnerable women at risk of committing crime in specific local communities in Sheffield and Leeds. It will do this by providing early intervention that ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-74
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/2009, number: 1128892
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/02/2009, number: 06814757
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR23: 14 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 1 days late,
Main office

13 PARK SQUARE EAST
LEEDS
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Objectives

TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, PARTICULARLY WOMEN WHO HAVE OFFENDED OR ARE AT RISK OF OFFENDING BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

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