Women's Employment Resource Centre of Oxford County
Publicly funded institution · Woodstock, Ontario · BN 896380532RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($512,379) as filed with the CRA.
Women's Employment Resource Centre of Oxford County is a charitable organization based in Woodstock, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $523K in revenue and $512K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $67K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
A: To establish maintain and operate a Non-Profit community pre-employment training center for low-income women the majority of whom experienced multiple barriers to employment including poverty and trauma from abuse. B: To Provide counselling and educational programs. C: To liaise with charitable Non-Profit services government agencies and community organizations in providing training and support for unemployed women.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $523K | $512K | $436K | — | — | $77K |
| 2023 | $520K | $514K | $479K | — | — | $66K |
| 2022 | $502K | $485K | $405K | — | — | $78K |
| 2021 | $447K | $453K | $359K | — | — | $57K |
| 2020 | $572K | $572K | $490K | — | — | $63K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $67K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$287K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cathy Austin (chair); Anne Macmeekin (co-chair); Heather Bree Davis (executive director); Loraine McLean (treasurer); April Wray (secretary); Linda Leyton (secretary); Melissa Deverell (co-chair); Emily Cotter (board member); Karen Kilsson (interim/co-executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's Employment Resource Centre of Oxford County’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896380532RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.