WALSALL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND LIMITED

Registered charity 1075854 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Walsall Society for the Blind mission is to provide information, support and friendship to all the visually impaired people within the Borough of Walsall.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SUCH ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES AS ARE THOUGH FIT TO THOSE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS REGISTERED AS SUCH OR CAPABLE OF REGISTRATION AS SUCH, AND RESIDING WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WALSALL AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS AND SUCH OTHER PERSONS, HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AS THE CHARITY MAY DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS MEMORANDUM THE WORDS "BLIND" AND "BLIND PERSONS" SHALL INCLUDE PERSONS WHO THOUGH NOT TOTALLY BLIND ARE SUBSTANTIALLY VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND WHO ARE THE INTENDED RECIPIENTS OF THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS

Area of benefit: METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WALSALL AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Walsall, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £37,332 for the year, resulting in a deficit. However, the Trustees confirm that the charity's financial resources are adequate for the continued provision of its core services for the foreseeable future, supported by unrestricted reserves of £2,234,034.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Walsall Society for the Blind (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN HAROLD COOKE JPchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amara Ismail-El-Banna
• DAVID SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• JULIE HARRIS
• RICHARD MEERE
• Stephanie Jane Neal
• Timothy Clifft

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

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• JOHN HAROLD COOKE JP — trustee here and at THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATION

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 WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED.

• WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £251k
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £321k
• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• THE CORNWALL BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED ASSOCIATION income £511k
• WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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