Women in Academia Support Network – Charity Number 1192281
Trustee’s report for the period ending 31[st] March 2025 Directors and advisors
Directors and trustees at the time the Professor Amy Bonsall (Chair) reporting period Professor Eleonora Belfiore Professor Jennifer Leigh Dr Pamela Yeow
Registered office 23 Park Road West Chester CH4 8BQ Additional office address 23 Park Road West Chester CH4 8BQ Registered charity number 1192281
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Women in Academia Support Network – Charity Number 1192281
Directors and trustees report.
The directors, who are also the trustees of the charity, submit their reports and accounts for the year 1 April 2024 to year ended 31 March 2025.
Objects and principal activities .
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To advance the professional education of women in academia through the creation, moderation and promotion of professional peer support networks to identify and meet through collective effort, the needs of women in academia
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To promote equality and diversity in academic professions through conducting / commissioning research for public dissemination and campaigning
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To relieve poverty of women academics facing disadvantage or discrimination through grant-giving and provision of services & access to events / facilities
Results.
The deficit for the year amounted to £5,306
Income £641 (rounded up to the nearest £) Expenditure £5,947 (rounded up to the nearest £)
Activity Report.
The Women in Academia Support Network (hence forth WiASN)
WiASN has continued its activities and has focused on developing 2 key areas. The membership of the Facebook group has remained fairly stable with a high rate of member engagement.
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To support women in academia who are at risk of redundancy or who are being made redundant
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To develop ideas for income generation via the once per month business post and a WiASN training offer
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To sit on research steering committees and develop the reach of the network beyond the Facebook group
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To develop channels for developing the opportunity for research funding and other types of funding, potentially via a research centre sitting within a UK university.
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Women in Academia Support Network – Charity Number 1192281
The board has remained stable throughout this financial period.
Taxation status .
The company is a registered charity (CIO) and under the provisions of section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 is exempt from liability to taxation.
Risk Review.
The directors of the company carry out a risk analysis for each project to be entered into by the company and update this throughout the life of each project, identifying and quantifying the level of risk exposure that the company is subject to. Strategies are implemented to mitigate identified risks and their potential impact on the company.
Reserves policy .
The directors have forecast the level of unrestricted reserves available to the company for the foreseeable future and consider those reserves to be sufficient to enable the company to operate at the levels of activity proposed. They are currently 0 but efforts are being made to ensure an adequate and sustainable reserve.
Appointment of Trustees.
The directors of the company are the trustees of the charity for the purposes of charitable law. New directors are appointed by the board.
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Women in Academia Support Network – Charity Number 1192281
Statement of directors’ responsibilities
Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the surplus or deficit of the company for that period. In preparing those accounts, the directors are required to:-
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select suitable accounting policies and then to apply them consistently;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting policies have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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prepare the accounts on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The accounts are provided in a separate document
Signed on behalf of the board
Amy Bonsall
Date 23 January 2026
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Women in Academia Support Network Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31st March 2025 Charity Number 1192281
| Income Donations Advertising income Grants Total income Expenditure Consultancy Fees Northern digital awards Computer expenses Insurance Travel Total Expenditure Net Surplus/(deficit) |
2025 76 15 550 5,350 - 292 214 91 |
2025 641 5,947 (5,306) |
2024 586 - 7,110 - 382 305 - |
2024 7,696 687 7,009 |
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Women in Academia Support Network
Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2025
Charity Number 1192281
2025 2025 2024 2024
Current Assets
Bank 1,808 7,114
Creditors due in less than one year
Accruals - -
Net Current Assets 1,808 7,114
Represented by
Unrestricted Funds 1,808 7,114
Signed on behalf of the trustees:-
Amy Bonsall
23.1.2026
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Women in Academia Support Network Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025 Charity Number 1192281
Accounting policies
Basis of preparation and format of the accounts
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014
and with the Charities Act 2011.
Going Concern
It is the policy of the board of the company to take careful account of the funding available for each event before entering into financial commitments for that event in order to ensure that the company will be able to meet its financial commitments. The board has no reason to believe that for the foreseeable future any events are likely to occur which would put achievement of this policy at risk. Therefore the board continues to adopt the going concern policy when preparing the accounts of the company.
Gifts in kind
The statement of financial activities includes gifts in kind as resources arising and expended when they are received by the company.