Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
Women's Health Matters

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25

Women's Health Matters is a Leeds-based charity supporting disadvantaged and marginalised women and girls to live safe and healthy lives. Their 2024/25 annual report covers direct work with 1,702 women and girls across 26 services, including domestic violence support, art therapy, maternity advocacy, digital inclusion and peer support. All services are free of charge and delivered with a trauma-informed, woman-centred approach.

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📋About

26 services delivered including: Leeds Domestic Violence Service; North London Rape Crisis (outreach); Art Therapy; Breastfeeding Peer Support; Pregnancy Choices Advocacy; Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership; Digital Support and Inclusion; Emergency Fund and Product Bank; Rainbow Hearts; Rosebuds; Growing Together; Inside Out; Women's Lives Leeds; professional training and workshops; volunteering and student placements Custom geography from upload: Leeds

📊Key Metrics

1,702 women and girls worked with directly in 2024/25 (up from 1,554 the previous year) Key Metric 1
979 group sessions, 1,744 one-to-one sessions and 164 crèche sessions delivered Key Metric 2
311 children directly supported; a further 1,226 children impacted indirectly Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 100% of staff reported feeling confident in the leadership and direction of the organisation, valued in their contributions, and would recommend WHM as a good place to work
  • Over half of women intensively supported live in the top 3% most deprived wards in England; almost all live in the 20% most deprived wards — services reaching those most in need
  • 1,376 women and girls accessed intensive group and 1-to-1 support (up from 1,219 the previous year), with a further 326 reached through lighter-touch support

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