FOREST SENSORY SERVICES

Registered charity 1142207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FSS

Reduce the impact of sensory impairment by assessing needs and providing access and information on sensory aids, equipment, activities and training. We provide:Education to facilitate independent living;Self help, social contact and mutual support;One-to-one sensory assessments and supply of equipment;Activities and training

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £60,613 against a policy target of six months' expenditure plus potential redundancy costs, which is designated as £37,000. The charity reported a net surplus of £15,477 for the year, with total income of £95,504 and charitable expenditure of £80,112. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were materially non-compliant.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07441944 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Forest Sensory Services (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• GALE, Richard Gareth — director, appointed 01/10/2026not on trustee list
• HIGGS, Gillian Ann — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• WARNER, David Michael — director, appointed 30/01/2024on trustee list
• ANNIS, Darryl James — director, appointed 13/11/2023on trustee list
• SPIERS, James Edgar — director, appointed 17/11/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID JOHN ADAMSchair
• Darryl James Annis
• David Warner
• Gillian Ann Higgs
• James Spiers

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).