BLESS COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Registered charity 1202061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bless offers daily activities which universally aim to reduce isolation and loneliness across a diverse range of ages, backgrounds, health and abilities. We currently deliver our services from our two bases: Upton and North Elmsall Village Hall and our centre in Hemsworth. Many of our activities centre around a creative, physical or educational theme to help people re-engage with their community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1,281 for the period, resulting in total net assets of £44,286. The trustees note that the charity has not yet reached its stated reserves target of £13,000, attributing this to increased demand for services directing funds toward frontline activity. Despite this, the trustees consider the current level of reserves sufficient for short-term needs and report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Cannon
• Beverley Williams
• Bradley David Ellis
• Elaine Griffin
• Julie Pauline Robinson

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Leeds City · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLESSED 2 BLESS COMMUNITY PROJECT.

• BLESSED 2 BLESS COMMUNITY PROJECT income £46k
• BLESS COMMUNITY CHURCH income £184k
• THE BLESS NETWORK income £26k
• BLISS -THE NATIONAL CHARITY FOR THE NEWBORN income £2.3m
• THE WELL COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £29k
• BLESSING IN DISGUISE income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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