BRAILLE IT

Registered charity 1195127 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Braille It delivers free UEB Braille Classes to adults in the community in East Lancashire.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED COMMUNITY, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT THROUGH:3.1 THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING FACILITIES FOR ADULTS;3.2 THE AREA COVERED BY THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE IN EAST LANCASHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREA.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure deficit of £699, resulting in total funds of £60,611 held in the bank account. The trustees' policy is to hold sufficient funds to meet at least twelve months of operating costs, and unrestricted reserves stood at £14,181. The filing confirms that no material matters came to the examiner's attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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
• Risk management
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Jolly
• Rebecca Thornber
• Stuart Ian Barnes

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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• BRAILLE CHESS ASSOCIATION income £94k
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Side by side with its peers

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