Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 1
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

CARDIFF WOMEN'S AID 

Offers advice, advocacy, support & information to women and their children who are experiencing domestic violence and abuse we do this via crisis, intervention, tenant support, refuge accommodation, counselling, prevention programmes, and work with children and young people.
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 well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 37 years

www.cardiffwomensaid.org.uk

cwa@cardiffwomensaid.org.uk

02920460566

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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£3,042£3,003£39£0£1,211£6672.76210
31/03/22£2,935£2,943£-8£0£1,172£6762.86535
31/03/21£3,143£2,906£237£0£1,132£5822.46070
31/03/20*£2,489£2,480£9£0£895£5002.45430
31/03/19£2,205£2,156£49£0£886£5272.93710
31/03/18*£1,273£1,268£5£0£837£4974.7370
31/03/17£1,173£1,131£42£0£832£4695350
31/03/16£1,207£1,163£44£0£790£4124.2380
31/03/15*£1,199£1,124£75£11£746£3603.8380
31/03/14*£1,349£1,183£166£12£671£2502.5370
31/03/13£1,430£1,402£28£11£505£890.8320
31/03/12*£1,413£1,429£-16£10£477£1961.6450
31/03/11*£1,155£1,285£-131£17£493£1541.4360
31/03/10*£1,155£1,139£16£11£181£1721.8330
31/03/09£1,005£1,008£-3£10£165£1631.9290
31/03/08£1,009£968£42£12£168£1642270
31/03/07£803£720£82£14£126£1041.7230
31/03/06£716£743£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£687£686£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£645£607£38£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 55%
Reserves/Spending: 2.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cardiff,
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 62 employees
  • 10 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - SHOUT Workshops and Women’s Library
£10,000 22/03/2021
9
Cardiff Women’s Aid Limited has received £10000 to provide safe and accessible online workshops for women and their children who are affected by domestic violence or abuse. Mae Cardiff Women’s ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 02/02/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - RECESSION - Recession Advice and Advocacy Services
£50,000 11/03/2010
24
The project is to create an extra/specialist advice and advocacy post within the crisis intervention centre to work with women who are escaping or experiencing domestic violence/abuse and who have ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-73
  • GEMMA CASEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Enterprise Support Leader
  • VERSHA SOOD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Dementia Care And Wellbeing Lead
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/03/1987, number: 518608
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/10/1986, number: 02065201
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
20 returns made; AR20: 2 days late, AR18: 47 days late, AR15: 25 days late, AR14: 3 days late, AR12: 56 days late, AR11: 11 days late, AR10: 1 days late,
Main office

Cardiff Women's Aid
50 Meteor Street
Adamsdown
Cardiff
CF24 0HE

Objectives

TO ASSIST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED AND WHO HAVE SUFFERED PERSISTENT ABUSE WHETHER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CARDIFF AND SOUTH GLAMORGAN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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