WALTHAM FOREST DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE

Registered charity 800350 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Waltham Forest Disability Resource Centre is a Limited company and charity set up in order to relieve disabled persons by the provision of services for them in order to help them reach their full potential.WFDRC is run by a management committee selected from its users and employs people who identify as having a disability.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WIT PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITIES RESIDENT IN WALTHAM FOREST BY THE PROVISION OF A CENTRE TO BE KNOWN AS THE WALTHAM FOREST DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE THROUGH WHICH SUCH PERSONS MAY REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. THE CENTRE SHALL BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITIES IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR DISABILITY, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION OR ETHNIC ORIGIN. (2) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: WALTHAM FOREST

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased services in December 2024 and is no longer viable, with final liquidation expected in 2026. Reserves were minimal at £4,819 at year-end and had dropped to £2,653 by November 2025, with further administrative expenses anticipated. The trustees concluded the charity was unable to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beryl Carol Streader
• KAUSAR BUTT

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

Operates in: Waltham Forest

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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