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Registered charity · London

Women in Prison Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £3.8m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.womeninprison.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Women in Prison Limited
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.8m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.4m£3.0m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.8m
  • 2021£2.8m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 66% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE THE RESETTLEMENT, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF WOMEN IN, OR WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM, PRISON OR YOUTH CUSTODY.(II) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF SUCH WOMEN AND THEIR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.(III) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE BROADER ISSUES OF PREVENTION, OFFENDING, IMPRISONMENT, RESETTLEMENT AND RECIDIVISM.(IV) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND POLICY MAKERS ABOUT THE REALITY OF WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

Grants received

48 grants · £6,027,953 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,741,823 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,319,869 (4 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £585,320 (2 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £415,999 (3 grants)
  • Ministry of Justice · £359,342 (4 grants)

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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.

12 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 12Professional services 2Arts and leisure 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£3.8m 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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.2 in 2021

57 from 53 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.
77%
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
1118727
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 OCTOBER 2005 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 MAY 2006 as amended on 14 Nov 2018 as amended on 13 May 2020
Companies House
Company number 05581944 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7359 6674 · info@wipuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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