WALSALL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE

Registered charity 1152724 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To help relieve distress and poor health amongst bereaved people by listening, individual counselling, peer support and information sharing; without distinction of age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or social class; to advance the education of the public to understand the needs of bereaved people including the sharing of information on good practice with other helping agencies.

Objects

1) TO HELP RELIEVE HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND POOR HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED BEREAVEMENT THROUGH THE DEATH OF A CLOSE RELATIVE OR FRIEND, BY PROVIDING SERVICES SUCH AS LISTENING, BEFRIENDING, ADVICE, INFORMATION, COUNSELLING, PRACTICAL HELP ON AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP BASIS IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE, SEX, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR SOCIAL CLASS.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE NEEDS OF BEREAVED PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE SHARING OF INFORMATION ON GOOD PRACTICE WITH OTHER AGENCIES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £49,138 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £127,321 to £78,183. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £58,212, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of nine months' anticipated expenditure. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees expressing confidence that sufficient funds can be raised to secure viability over the next 12 months despite current funding uncertainties.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 13/02/2025, 13 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Walsall Bereavement Support Service (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)
• The Henry Smith Charity — “The Henry Smith Charity” (source page)
• BBC Children in Need — “BBC Children in Need” (source page)
• The Eveson Charitable Trust — “The Eveson Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Rosie’s Helping Hands — “Rosie’s Helping Hands” (source page)
• Zurich Community Trust — “Zurich Community Trust” (source page)
• Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust — “Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust” (source page)
• Baron Davenport’s Charity — “Baron Davenport’s Charity” (source page)
• William A Cadbury Charitable Trust — “William A Cadbury Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Harry Payne Trust — “The Harry Payne Trust” (source page)
• Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust — “Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Souter Charitable Trust — “The Souter Charitable Trust” (source page)
• George Henry Collins Charity — “George Henry Collins Charity” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jim Greenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Louise Smith
• Alyson Green
• Frances Brant
• Joanne Emma Barlow
• Linda Ann Dines

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

Common questions

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• WANDSWORTH BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £211k
• BUTTERFLIES BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT income £29k
• SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE income £475k
• WOOLWICH SERVICE USERS PROJECT income £185k
• WOODSIDE BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £49k
• WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED income £204k

Side by side with its peers

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