WALTHAM FOREST BLIND ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1130235 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1)Drop In center activities to alleviate loneliness, 2) Providing weekly talking newspapers on audio tapes. 3) Taking blind and partially sighted people to various places of interest 4) providing advice and case work services. 5Training in mobility and providing music and bringing speakers to talk to the blind people on issues of blindness,. 6) Blindness awareness;. 7) Outreach:

Objects

THE OBJECT OF WHICH WILL BE TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY-SIGHTED PEOPLE, WHO ARE RESIDENT IN WALTHAM FOREST

Area of benefit: WALTHAM FOREST

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £881 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £55,760 and expenditure of £56,641. The trustees regard the current reserves of £16,773 as insufficient, noting that the target minimum level of general reserves is three months of unrestricted expenditure. Despite the deficit, the charity remains solvent with unrestricted funds of £5,595 and restricted funds of £11,178 carried forward.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREAS GEORGIOU
• ASMA MUSHTAQ
• GARY WIGGINS
• Naseem Yaqub
• TARIQ HUSSAIN
• hanif jinwalla

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

Operates in: Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALTHAM FOREST BLACK PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION.

• WALTHAM FOREST BLACK PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION income £170k
• WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £251k
• WALTHAM FOREST COMMUNITY HUB income £413k
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• WARWICKSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £565k
• DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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