REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 03692353 (England and Wales)

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1074897

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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COVENTRY HAVEN WOMENS AID

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The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).

CHAIR'S OVERVIEW

I am pleased to present the Annual Report for Coventry Haven Domestic Women`s Aid for the year ending 31 March 2025.This year has been marked by significant progress in delivering our charitable objectives, despite continued pressures on funding and increasing demand for services. Our core purpose remains unchanged: to provide safe accommodation, advocacy, and practical support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Despite ongoing challenges in the wider economic and social landscape, Coventry Haven has continued to provide life-saving services and empower survivors to rebuild their lives.Yet again, we have seen an increase in demand for our services, reflecting both the persistent prevalence of domestic abuse and the trust placed in our organisation by the community and wider partner agencies.

There is no doubt that the increasing cost of living has impacted on our fund-raising activities, but despite this we have been able to secure new funding to continue our Early Intervention Team and improve access to Legal rights and entitlements through funding from Access To Justice monies.

Financially, we have maintained stability through prudent management and successful grant applications.

We continue to monitor risks closely, particularly around funding volatility and rising operational costs, and have implemented measures to safeguard service continuity.

Our helpline, refuge and advocacy and outreach services have remained at the heart of our work, offering safety, advocacy, and practical support to those in crisis.

We take pride in all that we do and remain completely committed to delivering services to the highest standard.

Our achievements would not have been possible without the dedication of our staff, volunteers, and trustees, whose passion and professionalism underpin everything we do. I also extend heartfelt thanks to our funders and supporters, whose generosity enables us to continue this vital work.

Looking ahead, we remain committed to continuing to amplify the voices of survivors, influence policy, and develop services that respond to emerging needs. Together, we strive for a future where every woman and child can live free from fear and harm.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives and aims

The Charity's object is to provide a Public Benefit through:

"The relief of mental, physical and financial distress among women of all ages and/or their children who have been maltreated by their partners or family members or persons with whom they are or were living or having a relationship with or women/girls experiencing gender abuse or violence."

Significant activities

To achieve our objectives, we provide a range of specialist support and innovative services for the public benefit including:

- Refuge service for women and children escaping domestic abuse.

- Community based services including Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs), DA Practitioners, FGM service, and Sanctuary Scheme, Drop Ins and clinics.

- Groups including our own One Step Forward (Structured Programme of Support), You and Me, Mum and peer support groups

- Free, confidential helplines available 7 days a week.

- Training

- Access to counselling

- Access to support via Live Chat.

- A website, resources and Social Media

Early Intervention Pilot

We have a dedicated team of Practitioners based within Coventry Central Police Station, who provide first follow - up and contact to Standard and Medium Risk assessed victims of DVA who have reported an incident to the Police. The Practitioners offer advice, support, information and advocacy at the earliest point in a victims journey. The Service has received 3 year grant funding from National Lotteries to continue.

Refuge Service

We provide refuge services to approx. 60 families each year in Coventry.

In our refuges, every family has access to their own bedrooms and bathrooms with some shared facilities including kitchens, lounges and playrooms. We have a range of different sized units to accommodate people with or without children. In addition to accommodating people locally we are able to access other refuges across the UK via the 'refuges online' service. Our refuges are WAFE (Women's Aid Federation of England) affiliated which means that we fully support the principle of an open-door policy, believing victims accounts of their experiences rather than requiring proof of domestic abuse.

Community services

Our Community Team have continued to deliver a range of community based interventions as part of our Coventry City Council contract. Community Team deliver our Safetotalk helpline, we have Community IDVAs, Sanctuary Scheme Practitioners, and Community DA Practitioners with various community language specialisms between them. They provide advice, support and advocacy to victims living in our community, through helpline, 1:2:1 support sessions, drop ins at community venues, Family Hubs and clinics, or in their own homes for safety and security installations. Groupwork programmes and parenting programmes have been embedded now as part of this service offer, with good participation and successful outcomes.

Advocacy Services

The Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA) continued to receive high numbers of referrals of high risk victims and their children into service this year. These women are supported by the IDVAs with risk assessments and safety planning, and representation at Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC). We have been able to extend the team further this year to include specialist COURT support for women going through the court process.

IRIS Service has progressed the number of GP practices signed up to the scheme, and continues to train GPs to identify DA and make referrals in for support by an AE.

Safetotalk helpline

Our free to use, multi lingual and confidential helplines continues to be busy. It is the primary point of contact for all professionals, victims, perpetrators and children experiencing abuse in the city. It is also accompanied by a website. The Helpline has a dedicated co-ordinator and is supported by qualified staff and volunteers to meet demand. The helpline is delivered in partnership with Panahghar

FGM

Funded by the WMPCC, this service is specifically for to provide a support service to women and girls affected by FGM -through 1:2:1 support, group work and a friendship group delivered by our Co-ordinator and Champions, Our FGM worker has also presented training and awareness to schools and professionals.

Perpetrator Interventions

In Partnership with Relate we offer victim support services to their Perpetrator Programme "Choose to Change". We also delivered as part of a regional perpetrator intervention called "Pathways to Change", funded through OPPC

Training, consultancy and awareness raising

We continue to educate, inform and train people about how best to support people subject to abuse and violence. Over the year we have provided training to hundreds of professionals, including GPs, housing teams and key stakeholders such as police and social workers.

Awareness and Publicity

CHWA is committed to raising awareness of the causes and impacts of domestic abuse and VAWG as widely as possible and we have featured on radio interviews, local television news programmes and received widespread press coverage. We have trained a brilliant team of domestic abuse champions, through this we are able to reach people living in local communities to help spread the word about CHWA and the services we provide. Throughout the year we have engaged with students, health teams, local businesses and community members to build further awareness of what we do.

In November and December, we use the 16 days of action against violence against women to support a series of local online and public activities to raise awareness. We have supported National campaigns alongside other sector leaders - family courts and child contact have been key issues.

Fundraising activity

We organise fundraising events and co-ordinate the activities of our supporters both in the services we provide and in the wider community. We have a full time Funding and development officer to support this work. CHWA adheres to the guidance contained in the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Fundraising Practice

We have continued to receive funding from the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner for our IDVA service as part of a regional IDVA response for the highest risk victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA), this extends our service to include a dedicated Court IDVA. The WMPCC has also funded Perpetrator work in Coventry as part of a regional pilot, and this has enabled us to provide victim parallel support .

WMPCC have continued to provide funding for our Specialist Support Service for Women and Girls affected by FGM.

The now named ICB (Integrated Care Board, Cov & Warks) continued to fund our IRIS programme, which is a DVA programme which trains GP practices to identify and respond to DVA, and a referral pathway into a specialist support worker known as an AE (Advocate Educator).

We still receive significant funding from Coventry City Council, to deliver the contract for Community Based Services in the city, including Perpetrator programme (C2C) and support for child victims of DA alongside our consortia partners, Relate and Panahghar.

In addition to the core contract from Coventry City Council, "New Burdens" Funding to Local Authorities was allocated for a further year and we have received additional funds to enhance our Sanctuary Services, and Children`s and Families Support intervention in our refuge service.

Smallwood Trust Funding to further develop our Coventry Women`s Partnership agenda promoting strategic links with wider stakeholders across the city.

Public benefit

Coventry Haven provides a Public Benefit for the relief of mental, physical and financial distress among women of all ages and/or their children who have been maltreated by their partners or family members or persons with whom they are or were living or having a relationship with or women/girls experiencing gender abuse or violence.

The Public Benefit is served by providing a safe refuge, counselling and support, telephone help, and support through legal services.

The trustees also have had due regard to guidance published by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Volunteers

Our Volunteers

Coventry Haven Women's Aid would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the women who give their time to volunteer with us

Volunteer Activity - April 2024-March 2025

Helpline duty - answering calls and managing email contact boxes

Processing referrals into service

Proactively contacting clients awaiting counselling support - checking in and ensuring safe and well

Helping out on Pending Duty

Supporting staff at One Step Forward (Groupwork) sessions and Family Hub community Drop-ins as well as Just for Me sessions.

Volunteer attendance at numerous awareness and fundraising events throughout the year

Christmas Wrapping at Hen Lane for Refuge Residents was well attended by volunteers

Volunteers remain crucial to the work we do at Coventry Haven Women`s Aid (CHWA). Our huge thanks and appreciation to all our volunteers and student placements.

Amy Smith

Natalie Wintle

Aby Mur

Leanne Cox

Val Baker

Marion Corroon

Anne Pluska

Joyce Keng

Beth Caller

Skye Shepherd

Saddiqua Sheikh

Malaika Kalsoom

Jane Swain

Amerie Jeffers

Sapphire Bridge

The Charity attracts in kind support from a number of volunteers and donors; so many thanks for your kind donations and time.

Our benefactors included:

1st for Cleaner Carpets

Allesley Festival

Alsters Kelly

Amazon

Buddy Bags Foundation

Church MCCMC

Coventry Building Society

Coventry Comfort Carers

Coventry College

Coventry University

Crystal Clear Estate Planning

Earlsdon Methodist Church

Escape Games

Heart Of England Foundation

Henley Netball Club

Jaguar Land Rover

Jan Rawnsley

Keller

Kids Out

Kite Packaging

Martin Bates Claverdon Fields

Masonic Foundation

Morrisons

Mothers Union

National Express

Rotary Club

Sainsburys

Seimens - energy

Soroptomists

Stelantis

St Michaels Church Stoke

Tesco

Tom Soprano

The Bell, Keresley

The Newlands Public House

The Sisters of the PCJ SRS

Tisski

University of Warwick - Mixed Hockey

University of Warwick - Medical School

University of Warwick - Tennis

Warwick Castle

Women's Institute

Women In Law

Youell Fund HoEF

These are just some of our generous benefactors and we know there are many more, which we would like to thank sincerely for the numerous ways that they support Coventry Haven Women's Aid.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Charitable activities

The numbers of women benefiting from the charities services for the year ended 31st March 2024 are detailed below.

Coventry Haven Service data 2024-25

Refuge Service

- 121 new applications for refuge accommodation.

- We accommodated a further 43 women and their 40 children into a full refuge service. The refuge was fully occupied on 31/3/25 with 17 families already in residence.

- We were unable to accommodate 96 of the referrals received during the period, The majority of these were because our accommodation was full on the day of enquiry. Demand for refuge was very high during the year.

- We were therefore only able to accept 20%of all the women who applied for a refuge space.

- 44%White British, 56% BAMER (Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refugee),

- 13 differing languages were supported

Outreach advice and Advocacy Support Services

Safetotalk Helpline

- An increase from 3073 to 4624 contacts were received by Safetotalk helpline during 2024-25

- A huge percentage rise in calls from professionals seeking help and advice on DVA or making referrals into services

IDVA Service

- We received an increase in referrals this year - rising from 1063 to 1323 for High Risk Victims requiring Marac IDVA intervention .

- 443 women received a full package of IDVA intervention

- The numbers of High Risk victims continues to be increasing year on year - a triage model for managing high demand of MARACs has been implemented and is proving to be effective..

IRIS Service

- 272 new referrals were received, following GP practice centres completing the IRIS training package.

- Advocate Educator case worked 143 clients

- 96% of practices have been trained in IRIS

- 90% of referrals made from GP`s, 10% self referrals.

FGM Service

- 67 women received specialist FGM support during the year, they had 66 associated children.and 5 women were pregnant

- 80% of women accessing service were Africa ethnicity

- Other Ethnicities recorded include were Arab, Indian, other Black African/Caribbean

- Women were supported with needs around FGM and the law, Health, Safeguarding, Finances, Immigration, Housing, Criminal and civil law, Children, Safety, Emotional health and wellbeing, Sexual health, working, training and education, children, and parenting.

Community Outreach Team

- 958 referrals into Outreach this year.

- 496 went into ongoing casework, 3.4 month average length of time in service

- 584 women exited service, 65% completed programme of support.

- We have increased the number of hubs and community venues we provide drop in from to improve access to service for victims,

- Groupwork programmes have been delivered

Early Intervention Team

- 1,768 victims have been identified by the EIP team, and contacted following reporting DVA incident to the police

- 1,688 female victims

- 80 male victims ( followed up by Panahghar)

Sanctuary Service

- 265 referrals in to Sanctuary Support Service

- 191 Completed home safety installations were completed for victims of DVA staying in their own homes

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Principal funding sources

Our largest contract is with Coventry City Council, which funds our range of Community Based Services.

Housing Benefits continue to be funded by Coventry City Council, to deliver our refuge services.

IRIS funding continues to be received from Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).

We received funding through West Midlands Police and Crime Commission for our FGM specialist support services, IDVA Services, and Victim Support alongside Perpetrator Programmes.

Investment policy and objectives

Under the memorandum and articles of association, the charity has the powers to make any investment that the trustees consider appropriate.

Reserves policy

The trustees regularly review the amount of funds that the charity requires to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity's continuing obligations.

These reviews encompass the nature of the income and expenditure streams, the need to match variable income with fixed commitments and the nature of the reserves.

The financial reserves required to enable the charity to be managed efficiently and to provide a buffer for uninterrupted services are:

- A general reserve equivalent to 6 months unrestricted operating costs (currently £600,000)

- A fund for the emergency or extraordinary needs of clients of £15,000

- A property maintenance fund of £35,000

- A property reserve of £250,000. The Charity is planning on buying its own refuge and relocating Head Office at an additional investment of around £250,000.

This amounts to £900,000.

The current level of unrestricted free reserves is £869,029 (2024: £634,833). The charity is currently slightly under its target reserves and will continue to fund raise to aim to meet its target reserves. The charity will re-assess its reserves policy once the tendering process is complete for its main contract that is due by March 2028.

FUTURE PLANS

We have a change in government, to Labour - who have an ambitious plan to halve VAWG in a decade. We find ourselves in an uncertain position in terms of funding available, and await publication of a new VAWG Strategy which is expected in autumn 2025.

Existing bodies within government are subject to change, as are the infrastructures around ,systems such as The Office of Police & Crime Commissioners and NHS England. We must work closely with Commissioners and partners to ensure that we are prepared for significant future changes.

We have made great progress with our Governance review exercise, establishing new systems such as sub groups which examine areas of business such as Finance and Quality and Standards, and we are now ready to recruit new Trustees, and develop our new Strategic Plan.

We hope to seize new opportunities within responses to service users calling 999 services as we prepare to partner with BSWA and WMP to support the Home Office initiative "Raneems Law"

We will continuously review our service offer to victims in the city, and also support our partner agencies .

We are committed to continual improvement and to developing new and unique services where we identify gaps in provision - demonstrated, for example, in our support of Relationships C&W bid to Lotteries to improve male victim support in the city.

We will :

Further develop our work with local large businesses and employers and offer HR support and training and development for professionals

Having now completed the governance review and review of our organisational values and mission, we will be moving forward with new branding and marketing exercise.

We will be embedding a new way of working for Trustees, and developing our sub group activities.

We continue in our success in building corporate relationships, with growing interest from employers and banking institutions who want to financially or benevolently support our work.

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Continue to support LA Partners and Commissioners in their duties around the DA Act

We will continue to seek funding opportunities and diversify our income to create further resilience.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a Memorandum and Articles of Association, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

Recruitment and appointment of new trustees

New trustees generally come forward through volunteering and are trained in all aspects of the organisation.

Organisational structure

The charity has been in existence since the early seventies and is a charitable company limited by guarantee having been incorporated in England on 6th January 1999.

The Board of Directors meets approximately bi-monthly to monitor work and oversee the delivery of the charity's objectives. An Annual General Meeting is held where the wider membership of the charity are invited to attend.

Employees have been consulted on issues of concern to them by means of regular consultative committee and staff meetings and have been kept informed on specific matters directly by management.

Staff at 31st March 2025

Elaine Yates

CEO/ Company Secretary

Jaime Richards

Funding and Development Officer

Tessa Stewart

Volunteers / Champions

Elizabeth Cooke

IRIS AE

Abigail Frost

IRIS AE

Danielle Furlong

Finance Worker

Jane Collins

IDVA

Sharon Miller

DVA Practitioner (Refuge Based)

Holly Harrison

DVA Practitioner/ CF Worker (Refuge Based)

Lucky Basra

DVA Worker (Refuge based)

Amanpreet Sandhu

DVA Practitioner (Refuge Based)

Sarah Bhayat

Champions Network Co-ordinator

Esther Okonkwo

DVA Practitioner (Community Based FGM)

Kelsey Hughes

DVA Practitioner (Refuge Based)

Seto Sullivan

Service Manager (Community contract)

Michelle Eales

IDVA

Connie Hunter

IDVA

Jen Lawton

Service Manager

Baljit Kaur

IDVA (Sanctuary)

Sophie Montgomery

DVA Practitioner (Community)

Lianne Fox

DVA Practitioner (EIP)

Karolina Leclerc

IDVA (Polish Women)

Sophie Hadlum

DVA Practitioner (EIP)

Beverly Rowan

DVA practitioner (DVPP)

Sanita Sahota

Administration

Channiece French

DVA Practitioner (Community)

Natalia Puczynska

DVA Practitioner (Community / CFW)

Hayley Lenton

Service Manager

Amerie Jeffers

DVA Practitioner (Community / helpline)

Jasbinder Kaur

DVA Practitioner (EIP)

Amrit Bassi

DVA Practitioner ( Refuge Based)

Javeria Ijaz

IDVA

Jody Watson

DVA Practitioner (Community)

Induction and training of new trustees

New trustees are generally co-opted and elected at the following AGM.

Key management remuneration

The arrangements for setting pay of key management personnel subject to benchmarking against similar roles in the local area and the achievement of performance objectives.

Wider network

We are a member of the Women's Aid Federation of England and adhere to their policy and practices including the principle of a women only organisation, services are delivered "for women by women".

Partnership working

Coventry Haven WA are widely represented at a range of local strategic and partnership Boards and Fora -which includes the Coventry Police and Crime Board, Safeguarding Partnerships, MARAC and Marac Governance Group, Coventry DVA Operational Group, Supported Housing sub group, Hidden Harms Steering group, Sexual Abuse Board and IRIS Steering group, Domestic Homicide Review Panels, Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Board (DALP).

We are founder members of the West Midlands Regional Women's Aid Consortia, meeting regularly to work collaboratively on funding bids. CEO is a representative on the Regional DA Board, and contributes to the work and agendas such as WMPCC Victims Commission and WM Perpetrator Forum.

We are working locally to develop stronger, collaborative partnerships to deliver the Councils contracts on DVA in the city. We are leading a consortia of partners (Coventry Haven, Panahghar, Relate) in the delivery of community DA services for Coventry City Council.

We continue to be members of Coventry Women`s Partnership, VCSE Leaders Forum and The Poverty Alliance.

Related parties

Trustees are not permitted to be involved in any financial relationship with the charity as this would be a conflict of interest.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

The management committee are aware of the major strategic, business and operational risks the charity faces and have a business continuity plan which is reviewed annually.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Registered Company number

03692353 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity number

1074897

Registered office

22 Marlborough Road

Stoke

Coventry

West Midlands

CV2 4EP

Trustees

L Currie Treasurer

V E Williams (resigned 14.8.24)

H K Sohal

T J Raisbeck Chair

E J Stephens

H R Barrett

L E Gill Vice Chair

J Devine (appointed 24.9.25)

A Simkin (appointed 24.9.25)

Company Secretary

E Yates

Auditors

Luckmans Duckett Parker Limited

1110 Elliott Court

Coventry Business Park

Herald Avenue

Coventry

West Midlands

CV5 6UB

Bankers

Lloyds Bank PLC

30 High Street

Coventry

West Midlands

CV1 5RA

Solicitors

Band Hatton Button

25 Warwick Road

Coventry

CV1 2EZ

Advisers

Legal Clinic

Kunderts Solicitors

Key Management Personnel

E Yates (CEO)

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Coventry Haven Womens Aid for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law).

Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

-	select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

-	observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;

-	make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

-	prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

-	there is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company's auditors are unaware; and

-	the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditors are aware of that information.

AUDITORS

The auditors, Luckmans Duckett Parker Limited, have indicated their willingness to be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 22 December 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

T J Raisbeck - Trustee

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Coventry Haven Womens Aid (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

-	give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs as at 31 March 2025 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;

-	have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

-	have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

-	the information given in the Report of the Trustees for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

-	the Report of the Trustees has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

-	adequate accounting records have not been kept or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

-	the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

-	certain disclosures of trustees' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

-	we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or

-	the trustees were not entitled to take advantage of the small companies exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Report of the Trustees.

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Enquiring of management and employees, including obtaining and reviewing supporting documentation, concerning the charity's policies and procedures relating to:-

- Identifying, evaluating, and complying with laws and regulations and whether they were aware of any instances of non-compliance.

- Detecting and responding to the risks of fraud and whether they were aware of any actual, suspected, or alleged fraud and.

- The internal controls established to mitigate risk relating to fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations.

We identified areas of law and regulation that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our general commercial and sector experience, discussions with management (as required by auditing standards) and discussed with management the policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations.

All identified laws and regulations were communicated throughout the audit team, and they remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit.

The most significant considerations for the charitable company were as follows:-

- The Charity is subject to laws and regulations that affect the financial statements which include financial reporting legislation (namely The Companies Act 2006), taxation legislation and the Charities Act. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures concerning items recorded in the financial statements.

- The charity is also subject to other operational laws and regulations where the consequences of non-compliance could have material effect on the amounts or disclosures in the financial statements through imposing fines or withdrawal of funding contracts. Areas where this would have an effect include health and safety, Bribery Act 2010, employment law, data protections and child protection legislation (DBS checks for staff and volunteers).

Auditing standards limit the audit procedures to identifying non-compliance of these laws and regulations to enquiry of management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if there is any. Therefore, if a breach of operational regulations is not disclosed to us or evident from relevant correspondence, and audit will not detect the breach.

To identify risk of material misstatement due to fraud, we carried out discussions amongst the audit team to assess areas where and how fraud might occur in the financial statements and any potential indicators. The following areas were identified :-

- Management override of controls through the posting of inappropriate accounting entries or journals

- We do not believe there is a fraud risk relating the revenue recognition as the revenue is straightforward, with limited opportunity for manipulation.

We did not identify any additional fraud risks.

We tested the appropriateness of accounting journals and other adjustments made in the accounts preparation based on a risk criteria.

Owing to the inherent limitation of the audit , there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulation is from the events and transaction reflected in the financial statement, the less likely in the inherently limited procedure required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of fraud, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. Our audit procedures are designed to detect material misstatement. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance or fraud and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Natalie Sellers FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)

for and on behalf of Luckmans Duckett Parker Limited

1110 Elliott Court

Coventry Business Park

Herald Avenue

Coventry

West Midlands

CV5 6UB

27 December 2025

2025

2024

Unrestricted

Restricted

Total

Total

funds

funds

funds

funds

Notes

£

£

£

£

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM

Donations and legacies

2

53,807

-

53,807

49,231

Charitable activities

4

Support services

1,381,454

343,762

1,725,216

1,577,985

Independent Domestic Violence Advisors

151,290

-

151,290

140,581

FGM & FM/HBA

-

38,278

38,278

36,455

Parallel support

-

105,824

105,824

65,924

Investment income

3

11,593

-

11,593

7,395

Total

1,598,144

487,864

2,086,008

1,877,571

EXPENDITURE ON

Charitable activities

5

Support services

1,141,416

424,710

1,566,126

1,669,554

Independent Domestic Violence Advisors

200,118

-

200,118

136,886

FGM & FM/HBA

-

23,170

23,170

27,113

Parallel support

-

130,531

130,531

41,218

Total

1,341,534

578,411

1,919,945

1,874,771

NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)

256,610

(90,547

)

166,063

2,800

Transfers between funds

15

(28,052

)

28,052

-

-

Net movement in funds

228,558

(62,495

)

166,063

2,800

RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS

Total funds brought forward

914,833

125,911

1,040,744

1,037,944

TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD

1,143,391

63,416

1,206,807

1,040,744

2025

2024

Unrestricted

Restricted

Total

Total

funds

funds

funds

funds

Notes

£

£

£

£

FIXED ASSETS

Intangible assets

11

91

-

91

121

Tangible assets

12

274,271

-

274,271

265,837

274,362

-

274,362

265,958

CURRENT ASSETS

Debtors

13

134,024

7,739

141,763

106,040

Cash at bank and in hand

893,973

133,332

1,027,305

724,208

1,027,997

141,071

1,169,068

830,248

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

14

(158,968

)

(77,655

)

(236,623

)

(55,462

)

NET CURRENT ASSETS

869,029

63,416

932,445

774,786

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

1,143,391

63,416

1,206,807

1,040,744

NET ASSETS

1,143,391

63,416

1,206,807

1,040,744

FUNDS

15

Unrestricted funds

1,143,391

914,833

Restricted funds

63,416

125,911

TOTAL FUNDS

1,206,807

1,040,744

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 22 December 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

T J Raisbeck - Trustee

Cash flows from operating activities

Cash generated from operations

1

305,564

177,004

Net cash provided by operating activities

305,564

177,004

Cash flows from investing activities

Purchase of tangible fixed assets

(14,060

)

-

Interest received

11,593

7,395

Net cash (used in)/provided by investing activities

(2,467

)

7,395

Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period

303,097

184,399

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period

724,208

539,809

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period

1,027,305

724,208

1.	RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

2025

2024

£

£

Net income for the reporting period (as per the Statement of Financial Activities)

166,063

2,800

Adjustments for:

Depreciation charges

5,656

2,832

Interest received

(11,593

)

(7,395

)

(Increase)/decrease in debtors

(35,723

)

221,325

Increase/(decrease) in creditors

181,161

(42,558

)

Net cash provided by operations

305,564

177,004

2.	ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

At 1.4.24

Cash flow

At 31.3.25

£

£

£

Net cash

Cash at bank and in hand

724,208

303,097

1,027,305

724,208

303,097

1,027,305

Total

724,208

303,097

1,027,305