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Registered charity (CIO) · Sunderland

Wearside Women in Need

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing
Where
Sunderland
Website
www.wwin.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 49%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, INCLUDING TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND PRACTICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PEER SUPPORT, DIRECTED TO THE SUPPORT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE IN DANGER OF SUFFERING DISADVANTAGE AND EXPLOITATION AS A RESULT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; (B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.

Grants received

24 grants · £1,091,947 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.

9 trustees on the board

6.3y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 2Other services 1Tech and media 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£2.4m 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.

5.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.7 in 2021

58 from 36 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
1181932
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Feb 2019
Contact on the register
0191 416 3550 · enquiries@wwin.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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