WESTON SUNBEAMS

Registered charity 1048667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESTON AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR THE SPASTIC AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED

The charitable welfare of spastic & mentally handicapped children & adults

Objects

THE RELIEF CARE WELFARE INTEREST EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ANY FORM OF CEREBRAL PALSY OR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH RELATED DISABILITIES AND WHO ARE RESIDENT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF the BS22, BS23, BS24 and BS29 postcodes

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE WESTON SUPER MARE AND NORTH WEST SOMERSET

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £72,290 for the year ended 31 December 2024, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £725,176. Per the trustees' report, this increase was driven by significant legacy donations and investment income, allowing the charity to maintain adequate reserves for at least 12 months of future activity. The charity operates with no paid staff, relying entirely on volunteer trustees and committee members.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03085243

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ROWLANDS, Shaun — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• CORBETT, Ross — director, appointed 21/07/2024on trustee list
• SMALL, Michael — director, appointed 25/08/2022on trustee list
• PAINTER, William Timothy — director, appointed 12/09/2016on trustee list
• TOWNLEY, Jayne — director, appointed 12/09/2016on trustee list
• PALMER, Ian — director, appointed 24/05/2004on trustee list
• PALMER, Ian Leslie — secretary, appointed 31/08/2021

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ross Corbettchair
• Ian Palmer
• JAMES LAURENCE DOUGLAS GOULBOURN
• Jayne Townley
• KEVIN SMALE
• Martin Townley
• Maureen Painter
• Michael Small
• Shaun Rowlands
• William Painter

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUNBEAMS LONDON LTD.

• SUNBEAMS LONDON LTD income £351k
• WEST DORSET MENCAP SOCIETY income £160k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICHOLAS WITH ST BARNABAS, WESTON-SUPER-MARE income £115k
• SONSHINE CLUB income £137k
• MID WARWICKSHIRE SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS income £1.6m
• THE CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (WESTMINSTER) income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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