SENSORY PEOPLE

Registered charity 1164806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We help those with learning difficulties / a Sensory Processing Disorder (or Sensory Integration Dysfunction) affecting auditory, visual, tactile, taste, smell, vestibular and/or proprioceptive senses. Activities help neural development facilitating performance in everyday tasks, reducing long term motor clumsiness, behavioural problems, anxiety, depression, school failure, and other impacts.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS, DISABILITY, LEARNING DISABILITY OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, THEIR FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND CARERS BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE, EDUCATION, THERAPY, RECREATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OR APPROACHES DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £30,961 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £68,205. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds significant cash reserves of £625,509 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operating. The charity also holds a restricted Property Fund of £740,000, bringing total net assets to £808,205.

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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £175k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARION ROGERSONchair
• Andrea Natalee Grant-Palmer
• Joanne Elizabeth Corcoran
• Joy Christie High
• Julie Grainger

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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