Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

HILLINGDON WOMEN'S CENTRE 

Hillingdon Womens Centre provides a confidential safe space and support for all women in Hillingdon and surrounding areas. We promote the empowerment of women through friendship, opportunity, practical and emotional support and advice. At HWC, we provide services related to domestic abuse, general wellbeing, unemployment, isolation, as well as legal and benefits advice.
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 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:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

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

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£182£171£11n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£104£128£-24n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£202£148£54n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£66£62£4n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£52£53£-2n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£49£38£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£44£53£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£69£93£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£72£81£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£74£76£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£67£60£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£35£48£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£54£50£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£43£62£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£32£55£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£52£56£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£78£76£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£98£79£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£72£84£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£69£78£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 35 years
(38 years as a company)

www.hillingdonwomenscentre.org

Info@hillingdonwomenscentre.org

01895259578

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of London, Hillingdon,
Who it helps
  • 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
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 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£224,700
The London Community Foundation£100,032
Henry Smith Charity£75,200
National Lottery Community Fund£57,000
DCMS£11,302
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£8,579
The Clothworkers Foundation£6,100
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£224,700 04/01/2024
£224,700 over five years (£40,600, £42,700, £44,900, £47,200, and £49,300) towards the costs of a full-time support worker and associated costs overheads for the domestic abuse service at ....more
Greater London Authority - Hillingdon Women's Centre
£5,200 29/07/2022
This is a partnership Programme between City Bridge Trust, the National Lottery Community Fund and the GLA. Hillingdon Women’s Centre supports women in Hillingdon. The funding would allow staff to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£75,200 07/12/2021
36
towards three years' salary of a Domestic Abuse Worker at a project offering domestic violence support services for women in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£4,464 23/10/2021
We would like to develop and run our own recovery programme of workshops for women who have suffered from domestic abuse.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,500 30/03/2021
Core costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Domestic Abuse Recovery Program
£57,000 01/03/2021
36
The project is using funding to take on a case worker who can provide more specialised one to one support as well as building a Domestic Abuse Recovery Program which would be delivered to women in ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£4,115 24/10/2020
We would like to help women experience and learn new skills in arts and crafts workshops.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£7,802 09/09/2020
The development of a domestic abuse recovery program consisting of online workshops delivered over a 6 week period, supported with 1-2-1 introductory sessions and follow ups post the workshops as ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£7,802 09/09/2020
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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 21/08/2020
HWC Core Costs
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£7,764 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£84,466 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£3,500 08/07/2020
"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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Hillingdon Women's Centre
£6,100 13/03/2020
purchase of furniture and IT equipment for a charity that works with sexual and domestic abuse in Hillingdon
National Lottery Community Fund - The Aasiya Project; a multi-agency hub to tackle the injustice of FGM
£9,440 15/11/2017
12
This project will carry out a planning and feasibility study into setting up a partnership which will deal with the issue of female genital mutilation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women Into Volunteering
£130,610 07/05/2012
48
This project will support women to improve their employment skills and gain experience and knowledge by getting them involved in volunteering in the local community. The project will particularly ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-64
  • REENA SHAH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Investment Banker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/05/1989, number: 801433
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/04/1986, number: 02009021
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 28 days late,
Main office

333 LONG LANE
HILLINGDON
UXBRIDGE
UB10 9JU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN RESIDENT IN HILLINGDON AND THE SURROUNDING BOROUGHS, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE LIFE OF THE SAID WOMEN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HILLINGDON AND AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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