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Berkshire Women's AID

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit to provide for the relief of need, hardship or distress among persons who are victims of, or in fear of, domestic violence and/or abuse, and to reduce the...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Accommodation/housing
Where
Bracknell Forest, Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire
Website
www.berkshirewomensaid.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Berkshire Women's AID
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2023£2.0m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 56%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit to provide for the relief of need, hardship or distress among persons who are victims of, or in fear of, domestic violence and/or abuse, and to reduce the occurrence of domestic abuse, in particular but not exclusively by providing refuge, advocacy, items, services, facilities or practical support, by raising public awareness of domestic abuse issues or in such other ways as the trustees may from time to time decide.Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom

Grants received

11 grants · £726,031 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

4.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 6Property 1Tech and media 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

43 from 40 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1050484
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 JULY 1995 as amended on 25 Sept 2013 as amended on 24 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 03081670 · Active
Contact on the register
01189500182 · info@bwaid.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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