Safety Wellbeing and Challenging Abuse

Analysis

Safety Wellbeing and Challenging Abuse is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bootle. It was registered in December 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03448301). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Safety Wellbeing and Challenging Abuse reported income of £1.1m and spending of £1.2m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £706k to £1.1m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Safety Wellbeing and Challenging Abuse sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (£1.1m), The Hampstead School of Art (£1.1m) and The Howard League for Penal Reform (Incorporating the Howard Centre for Penology) (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 90%, donations and legacies 6.1% and trading 3.6%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 3.2%. Reserves of £273k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 32 people.