Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE WOMENS' CENTRE SUTTON 

Support and services for women to improve lives and status for all women in the area. Counselling, Freedom Programme for victims of domestic/sexual abuse. IT support for women returning to work, English as a Second Language classes, creche facilities, mother and toddler group. Activities such as Art Therapy and various workshops
Analysis by Giving is Great

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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 38 years

www.suttonwomen.co.uk

info@suttonwomen.co.uk

02086611991

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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£212£228£-16n/an/an/an/an/a42
31/03/22£244£210£34n/an/an/an/an/a43
31/03/21£237£230£8n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/20£158£148£11n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£194£138£56n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/18£130£119£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£115£94£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£93£81£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£67£61£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£69£45£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£26£27£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£30£38£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£42£36£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£19£31£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£60£68£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£87£82£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£84£76£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£63£59£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£65£60£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£56£52£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey, Sutton,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 42 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
City Bridge Trust£121,850
Greater London Authority£48,840
DCMS£15,797
The London Community Foundation£9,990
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
BBC Children in Need£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Centre Sutton
£121,850 27/01/2023
60
£121,850 over five years (£24,128; £24,248; £24,370; £24,491; £24,613) towards ESOL classes for refugee and migrant women and associated costs.
Greater London Authority - Sutton Women's Centre
£48,840 29/07/2022
This is a partnership Programme between City Bridge Trust, the National Lottery Community Fund and the GLA. An organisation in Sutton supporting victims of domestic abuse, their mission: To provide a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Migrant Women's Group
£9,900 06/08/2021
The funding will be used to provide English and Maths tutoring for migrant women. The project aims to reduce isolation increase confidence and self esteem and provide educational and learning ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Women's Centre Sutton
£9,990 25/09/2020
Extend our current services, 12 week Freedom Programme, Counselling and therapy courses from face to face contact by Zoom or telephone for victims of domestic abuse. Funding would enable us to employ ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,990 25/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£2,882 10/08/2020
"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 ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Womens Centre Sutton
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund summer provision for disadvantaged children and their siblings impacted by Covid-19. Activities will help improve language and social skills, whilst building ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,925 25/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ESOL for Empowerment
£9,956 29/11/2018
12
The project will provide English and IT workshops for women who do not speak English. The aim is to empower women to be more confident and socially active.
National Lottery Community Fund - Domestic Violence Service for Women
£242,359 31/10/2018
60
The project will provide a domestic violence support and advocacy service for women. The aim is to help them understand, what has happened to them and the effect it has had on them and their ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sutton Women's Centre
£6,200 31/08/2018
refurbishment of rooms for a charity which works with survivors of sexual or domestic violence in Sutton
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Women's Centre Sutton
£57,700 27/11/2014
36
£57,700 over three years (£18,700; £19,200; £19,800) towards English classes for women speakers of other languages in Sutton.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Counselling Service
£154,051 14/03/2013
60
This existing project will continue and develop support services to women and children who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic violence and sexual abuse and living in and around ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
  • EMMA MATTHEWS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/04/1986, number: 294067
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/06/1984, number: 01829008
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

3 PALMERSTON ROAD
SUTTON
SURREY
SM1 4QL

Objectives

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR FOR WOMEN RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCAITION)

Defined Area of Benefit:

SUTTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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