Charity Details

Dumfriesshire & Stewartry Women's Aid

SC017165Registered charity from 15 November 1993

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Charity Information:

Address c/o Farries, Kirk & McVean
Dumfries Enterprise Park
Heathhall
Dumfries

Postcode DG1 3SJ

Website No Link Provided

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

3. The Company's objects are:- A. (a) To encourage the provision of temporary refuge or refuges for women and their children (if any) where the women suffered abuse (mental, physical or sexual) in their home or within a relationship with a man. (b) To offer support, information and help to any women and their children (if any) who ask for such help whether or not they are refuge residents and also to offer support and advice to any women and children who have left a temporary refuge. (c) To promote equal opportunities for, and participation of women In society to enable them to determine their own futures. (d) To provide the opportunities for the educational and emotional needs of the children (if any) to be met, particularly those resident in refuges. (e) To encourage statutory authorities and other agencies to recognise their obligations, legal and otherwise, towards abused women and their children (if any) and to act accordingly towards the prevention of abuse and relief of suffering. (f) To promote education and to inform the community and their representatives including the media, the police, the judicial system, the social service and other authorities with respect to the abuse of women and its prevention. (g) To encourage research into the causes, prevention and relief of such suffering and abuse of women.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

The charity provides specialist services to women and children at risk from domestic violence and abuse. We provide a safe refuge with 24 hours security but we also provide a broader framework of support services including advocacy for our clients.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 15 Nov 1993

Main Operating Location: Dumfries And Galloway

Number of Staff: 12

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£673,294	£611,617	12 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£710,286	£638,756	15 Jan 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£673,911	£756,793	11 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£760,351	£807,489	19 Dec 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Irvine	Watson
Ann	Pearson
Robert	McColm
Janet	Drennan
Hannah	Turnbull
Fiona	Armstrong
June	Newark
Hannah	Stokes
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