WALSALL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1189701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Health and social care - provide a luncheon club and social environment for the community, run social events and gatherings, function room hire, health awareness and advice in conjunction with doctors and health personnel from Walsall Manor Hospital.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF WALSALL AND THE NEIGHBOURING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES, LEARNING HANDICAPS OR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL SPECIFICALLY HAVE THE POWER TO MAINTAIN A COMMUNITY CENTRE. ALSO, TO CO-OPERATE WITH ANY TYPES OF ORGANISATIONS IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £2,590 for the year ended 30th September 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £40,570. The trustees confirm the financial health remains in the black, supported by income from Emmanuel School and facility hires, despite high maintenance costs. The organization maintains sufficient funds to cover liabilities and continue its community activities.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• YVONNE VASSELLchair
• BASIL ELLIS
• Camille Ebanks-Powell
• Evadne Harris
• Hartley Walker
• LESLIE CHARLTON HAYE
• MICHAEL IDOWU · trustee of 1 other charity
• NORMAN WASHINGTON REID
• XXX PEACE

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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