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Registered charity · Leicester

Shama Womens Centre

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £697k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Leicestershire, Leicester City
Website
shamawomenscentre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shama Women's Centre
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£697k£549k
  • 2024£597k£451k
  • 2023£397k£380k
Earlier years
  • 2022£315k£301k
  • 2021£409k£394k
Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE HIGHFIELD AREA OF LEICESTER AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE PRIMARILY ASIAN WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN (A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING, (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PARTICULARLY IN WAYS WHICH MAY ASSIST THOSE WHO ARE BEING EDUCATED AND TRAINED TO FIND EMPLOYMENT, (C) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS

Board analysis for researchers

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.

7 trustees on the board

5.2y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 7Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7

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

Other services 8Education 1Property 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£697k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

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

27 from 21 in 2024
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.
15%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1087995
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED ON 21 JUNE 1990 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 8 NOVEMBER 1998, 11 SEPTEMBER 2000 AND 4 JUNE 2001
Companies House
Company number 02514040 · Active
Contact on the register
01162514747 · shama_womens_centre@hotmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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