Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED 

Rights of Women aims to promote the legal rights of women throughout England and Wales. Via legal advice telephone helplines, publications and training courses, we aim to increase women's understanding of their legal rights and improve their access to justice so they can live free from violence, oppression and discrimination and are able to make their own safe choices about the lives they lead.
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Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • The Board is completely female
Established: 12 years

www.rightsofwomen.org.uk

info@row.org.uk

02072516575

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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£873£932£-59£10£561£4946.42146
31/03/22*£841£802£39£5£620£3194.81750
31/03/21£882£695£187£0£582£2374.11350
31/03/20£520£489£31£0£395£1874.61050
31/03/19£453£425£28n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£321£360£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£358£355£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£336£335£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£398£360£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£290£319£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£214£170£44£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 6.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 7.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 21 employees
  • 46 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
Access to Justice Foundation£775,776
Henry Smith Charity£297,200
Esmee Fairbairn£216,000
Justice Together Initiative£195,000
John Ellerman Foundation£149,970
Home Office£97,538
Tudor Trust£93,500
Trust for London£85,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted funding for ROW's work
£25,000 28/09/2023
Rights of Women unrestricted funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rights Of Women
£16,000 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Trust for London - Rights of Women
£7,800 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9378
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£112,500 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£39,058 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rights of Women
£120,000 17/05/2022
36
towards three years‘ running costs of a project providing legal advice, advocacy and support for women who have experienced or are at risk of Violence Against Women and Girls across England and ....more
Trust for London - Rights of Women
£78,000 09/02/2022
The funding is for specialist immigration legal advice and advocacy work that results in improved access to justice, rights and protections for migrant women who are vulnerable due to insecure ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rights Of Women
£200,000 31/08/2021
60
Towards unrestricted core costs to increase access to justice for women experiencing gender-based violence
Rosa UK - JEF4 R1-RIGHTWOM-2021
£79,985 13/07/2021
To establish a new sexual harassment legal helpline
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rights of Women
£177,200 09/06/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salaries of two senior legal advisers for a project providing immigration and asylum law advice and advocacy for vulnerable women across the UK.
Justice Together Initiative - Increased access to justice through the law for migrant women survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG)
£195,000 20/04/2021
Influencing work that results in improved access to advice, rights and protections for migrant women who are vulnerable due to VAWG. Rights of Woemn will use a joined-up approach that connects ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
£51,340 01/04/2021
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Rights of Women Incorporated Limited
£2,000 22/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Greater London Authority - Grant to Rights of Women
£10,000 27/11/2020
European outreach work
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£124,218 13/10/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 07/05/2020
6
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Home Office - RIGHTS OF WOMEN (G)
£46,198 01/04/2020
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs of the Senior Legal Officer team
£149,970 30/01/2020
36
Core costs of the Senior Legal Officer team
Tudor Trust - Grant to Rights of Women Incorporated Limited
£91,500 20/05/2019
36
over three years towards salaries and running costs at a national legal advice service for women experiencing domestic violence
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 2019-20
£39,998 01/04/2019
This grants scheme is enabling organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens through information-giving, advice and provision of technology and assistance to help them make ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rights of Women
£120,000 14/03/2018
36
towards three years' salary costs of a National project providing immigration and asylum law advice and advocacy to vulnerable women including those at risk of, or experiencing, violence or abuse
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rights of Women
£50,365 30/10/2017
24
Towards the director’s salary and a contribution to core costs to increase access to legal advice for women affected by violence, influence policy and improve the sustainability of the organisation.
Trust for London - Rights of Women
£120,000 07/06/2017
36
The funding is to support the development and implementation of Phase 2 of the Athena project based on recommendations from an external evaluation. Athena will provide direct immigration advice to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rights of Women
£99,525 09/03/2017
24
to work with Public Law Project to develop action research into Exceptional Care Funding applications
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rights of Women
£75,160 29/01/2014
Towards the director’s salary and a contribution to core costs to continue and develop its frontline advice, training and policy work around women’s legal rights.
National Lottery Community Fund - Legal advice and information project
£396,714 17/04/2013
60
Rights of Women Incorporated (ROWI) is a continuation of an existing project open to all women throughout England. It works to provide justice, equality and respect for women by specialising in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-77
  • KAT HACKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Legal Protection
  • OLIVIA DEHNAVI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Policy And Research Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/07/2012, number: 1147913
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/03/2012, number: 08002509
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR22: 55 days late,
Main office

RIGHTS OF WOMEN
52-54 FEATHERSTONE STREET
LONDON
EC1Y 8RT

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A.THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER:B.EDUCATING WOMEN ABOUT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS;C.CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;D.RAISING AWARENESS OF AND CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY OF WOMEN AND DIVERSITY;E.CAMPAIGNING IN RELATION TO GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER;F.CONDUCTING POLICY WORK IN RELATION TO GENDER EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES

Data Sources

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