WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED

Registered charity 1147170 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WSBPS

The charity provides services and facilities to support blind and partially sighted people in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. These include a resource centre, creative and social activities, training courses, an outreach support service.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION, TRAINING, WELFARE, INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION AND WELL-BEING OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WIRRAL. IN PURSUIT OF THESE OBJECTS, THE CHARITY SHALL PROVIDE OR FACILITATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COURSES, CREATIVE AND LIFESTYLE ACTIVITIES, INFORMATION ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES, INCLUDING ADVOCACY AND COUNSELLING, DEMONSTRATIONS OF INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS TO PROMOTE SELF-HELP AND INDEPENDENCE, ORGANISATION OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVENTS AND PROMOTIONAL AND FUND-RAISING ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS MEMBERS AND CLIENTS.

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: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £9,318 for the period, primarily due to lower unrestricted donations. However, reserves at 31 March 2025 stood at £92,039, which the trustees anticipate represents approximately six months of necessary ongoing costs. Forecasts for the coming year are described as positive with further funding already secured.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07982870

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted (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.

• HODGSON, Gary — director, appointed 12/01/2026on trustee list
• KELLY, Christopher John — director, appointed 07/08/2023on trustee list
• BROWN, Alan Melville — director, appointed 04/03/2019on trustee list
• JONES, Michael Andrew — director, appointed 30/11/2017on trustee list
• LAW, Adele — director, appointed 14/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN BROWN
• Adele Law
• Christopher Kelly
• Gary Hodgson
• Lynn Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Jones

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

Operates in: Wirral

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALSALL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND LIMITED.

• WALSALL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND LIMITED income £393k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £321k
• WIRRAL MENCAP income £414k
• THE CORNWALL BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED ASSOCIATION income £511k
• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.