Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +13

WELSH WOMEN'S AID 

We represent and campaign for our member services across Wales who provide frontline support to survivors of all forms of violence against women & girls-Delivery of the Live Fear Free Helpline, providing first contact advice and signposting to ongoing support such as refuge and advocacy-Training-Campaigning and consultancy on relevant policy-Community engagement and fundraising
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 13 years

www.welshwomensaid.org.uk

info@welshwomensaid.org.uk

02920 541551

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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£3,303£3,319£-17£0£1,131£7602.7633
31/03/22£3,146£3,088£58£0£1,148£7613567
31/03/21*£3,044£2,910£133£0£1,091£6872.8510
31/03/20£2,160£2,276£-116£0£958£56134113
31/03/19£2,465£2,550£-86£0£1,073£5732.75412
31/03/18£2,025£2,038£-12£0£1,159£5903.5490
31/03/17*£1,871£1,942£-72£0£1,171£5893.6460
31/03/16£1,865£1,882£-17£0£1,243£5713.6440
31/03/15£1,757£1,824£-67£12£1,260£6294.1410
31/03/14£1,629£1,608£21£21£1,327£5984.5450
31/03/13£1,866£1,361£505£16£1,307£4984.4400
31/03/12£2,156£1,354£802£14£802£3843.4310

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 44%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 2.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 63 employees
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout Wales,

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£400,000
Esmee Fairbairn£340,000
Home Office£235,635
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£80,000
DCMS£59,520
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WELSH WOMEN'S AID
£165,000 06/12/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to deliver preventative community interventions and influencing work that will help to reduce gender-based violence, while also centring work to better support deaf ....more
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£80,000 02/03/2023
Towards pilot project
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£103,633 06/07/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Comic Relief - Resourcing domestic abuse services in a time of crisis
£400,000 26/05/2020
12
COVID19 - Welsh Women's Aid will receive and distribute a grant, from funds raised through The Big Night In, to support them & their 20 members to respond to the impacts of Covid-19 on women ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Home Office - WELSH WOMEN'S AID
£28,369 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more
Home Office - WELSH WOMEN'S AID
£103,633 01/04/2020
This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£150,000 04/12/2019
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Towards core unrestricted costs to continue to support specialist violence against women services across Wales and work towards policy and practice which better supports victims/survivors.
DCMS - Ask Me Plus
£59,520 01/04/2019
Make onward grants on a competitive basis to Specialist Domestic Abuse Services to enable them to participate in and shape Ask Me Plus in their area
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£30,000 15/11/2018
12
Survivors Empowering and Educating; funding towards the further development of a national programme aiming to incorporate the voice of survivors into service development
DCMS - Ask Me Plus
£59,520 01/04/2018
Make onward grants on a competitive basis to Specialist Domestic Abuse Services to enable them to participate in and shape Ask Me Plus in their area
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£54,400 24/11/2017
Forty Voices, Forty Years
National Lottery Community Fund - Forty Voices, Forty Years
£9,842 15/11/2017
12
Forty Voices, Forty Years
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Welsh Women’s Aid
£24,508 16/03/2016
12
To support shared learning and strategic alliance between the work of Women’s Aid, Welsh Women’s Aid and Lankelly Chase on place-based systems change and ensure equality-, gender- and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£48,400 14/10/2015
12
Part of the National Programme
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Welsh Women's Aid
£5,000 14/10/2015
part of the National Programme
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-60
  • KERRY-LYNNE DOYLE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior External Communications Manager
  • KIRSTY PALMER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director Of Student Services
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/03/2011, number: 1140962
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/01/2011, number: 07483469
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR21: 15 days late, AR17: 0 days late,
Main office

PENDRAGON HOUSE
CAXTON PLACE
PENTWYN
CARDIFF
CF23 8XE

Objectives

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ANY WOMEN OR HER CHILDREN FROM DIFFERING SOCIAL GROUPS WHO HAVE OR ARE EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC ABUSE AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF 'VIOLENCE AGINST WOMEN', INCLUDING THE WIDER SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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