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Registered charity · London

Women and Girls Network

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £7.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.wgn.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Women and Girls Network
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.3m£7.5m
  • 2024£7.1m£7.0m
  • 2023£6.4m£6.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.9m£4.6m
  • 2021£3.8m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 98%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE "OBJECTS") ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 3.1.1 TO RELIEVE THE HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN AND GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN OR ARE BEING GRAVELY OR PERSISTENTLY MALTREATED BY THEIR HUSBANDS, CO-HABITEES, FATHERS OF THEIR CHILDREN OR DIVERSE OTHER PERSONS, AND ANY CHILDREN OF SUCH WOMEN OR GIRLS; AND 3.1.2 TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENT WORK RELATING TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Grants received

15 grants · £8,700,593 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

  • London Councils · £5,533,157
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £1,384,020 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,127,219 (3 grants)
  • Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime · £275,592
  • Ministry of Justice · £200,228 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime £275,5922024-02-27
  • Department of Health and Social Care £458,1002022-03-18
  • Department of Health and Social Care £475,9202022-03-18
  • Department of Health and Social Care £450,0002022-03-18
  • London Councils £5,533,1572021-11-24
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

5.8y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

6
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 8Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 6Hospitality 3Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£7.3m latest income
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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

93 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1150354
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08 NOV 2012
Companies House
Company number 08286856 · Active
Contact on the register
02076104678 · info@wgn.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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