BEACON CENTRE FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 216092 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Domiciliary care is provided for up to 71 elderly blind and partially sighted persons. Up to 400 blind and partially sighted persons attend our Day Centre each week to participate in stimulating and therapeutic activities. We provide Community Services to blind and partially sighted persons residing in the Midlands area. We facilitate employment opportunities for visually impaired people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES OTHER THAN BLINDNESS OR DEFECTIVE VISION AND WHO ARE RESIDENT FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON, THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY, THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL OR THE COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE OR SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.

Area of benefit: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL, COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE OR SUCH OTHER AREAS CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · 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 reported a net deficit of £565,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit of £181,000 in the prior year. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm that free unrestricted reserves of £2,133,000 remain sufficient to cover eight months of budgeted expenditure, and the auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• Investing charity funds 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 conflicts of interest 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Chamber members raise £3,701 for Beacon Centre for the Blind dudleynews.co.uk · 03/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00710129

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beacon Centre For The Blind (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lisa Sadler-Todd — CEO (source)
• Kathy Roper — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KNOX, Gillian — director, appointed 20/05/2026on trustee list
• ROCKETT, Peter Bernard — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• SPRUCE, Michelle Amanda Jayne — director, appointed 19/12/2025on trustee list
• WYNN-WILLIAMS, Bethan Sian — director, appointed 11/08/2021on trustee list
• SCOTT, Karen Ann — director, appointed 11/08/2021on trustee list
• SUWE, Jeanette — director, appointed 11/08/2021on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Sharon Scott — director, appointed 10/03/2021on trustee list
• TURNER, Philip John — director, appointed 26/02/2020on trustee list
• ROPER, Kathryn Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/08/2019on trustee list
• FOX, Deborah Louise — secretary, appointed 03/03/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Beacon Centre for the Blind — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/07/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Beacon Extracare: Good (03/09/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bethan Sian Wynn-Williams
• GILLIAN KNOX
• Jeanette Suwe
• Karen Ann Scott
• Kathryn Elizabeth Roper
• Michelle Amanda Jayne Spruce
• Peter Bernard Rockett
• Philip Turner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Jonathan Ennis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Scott Phillips

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Staffordshire · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURWELL AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST.

• BURWELL AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST income £165k
• WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £251k
• WALTHAM FOREST BLIND ASSOCIATION income £56k
• HENSHAWS SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE income £11.4m
• FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.1m
• BOURNEMOUTH BLIND SOCIETY income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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