London-based Against Violence & Abuse (AVA) is reported to be winding down because it is technically insolvent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision to close has been a difficult one, and comes following a period of operational and financial difficulty which the charity has tried to work through,\u201d the board of trustees said in a letter quoted by charity sector journal Civil Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n AVA\u2019s operations will shut down with immediate effect and the organisation will hold a formal meeting of members and creditors in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n The trustees wrote: \u201cAs AVA closes, we look back and reflect on our mission and the women the organisation was set up to support, directly and indirectly. Today, we look around and see a strong, passionate women\u2019s sector, voicing the needs of those they support, and recognised for their expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n Charity Commission data puts AVA\u2019s total income at \u00a31.20m and total expenditure at \u00a31.28m for the financial year ending 31 March 2023. Income included \u00a3582,377 from the public purse.<\/p>\n The charity describes itself as committed to ending gender-based violence and abuse by improving services for survivors through training and published material, as well as consultancy, policy, research and preventative work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London-based Against Violence & Abuse (AVA) is reported to be winding down because it is technically insolvent. \u201cThe decision to close has been a difficult one, and comes following a period of operational and financial difficulty which the charity has tried to work through,\u201d the board of trustees said in a letter quoted by charity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}