WANDSWORTH BEREAVEMENT SERVICE

Registered charity 1074904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide bereavement counselling to residents of the Borough of Wandsworth and to residents of neighbouring Boroughs who have not been able to access bereavement counselling elsewhere.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH WHO ARE IN NEED AFTER SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS, OR DUE TO TERMINAL ILLNESS, AND ANYONE FROM NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS WHO HAS BEEN UNABLE TO ACCESS BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING ELSEWHERE, BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICE FOR SUCH PERSONS AND BY THE DISSEMINATION OF SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS WITH BEREAVEMENT AND LOSS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £22,072, increasing total reserves to £34,391. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £21,040 remain below the stated policy target of £40,000, though the financial trajectory is described as positive.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Power Diary — “We thank Power Diary for donating their client management system to us and thereby supporting our administrative staff in making the allocat…” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernard Randall
• Dr Samantha Cobb
• Professor Colin Feltham
• Robert Dominic Alexander
• Stephen Balogh

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALSALL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE.

• WALSALL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE income £106k
• WOODSIDE BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £49k
• WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £2.2m
• CAMDEN CITY ISLINGTON AND WESTMINSTER BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £445k
• THE BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING SERVICES income £44k
• THE BARNET BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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