Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED 

The charity provides services and facilities to support blind and partially sighted people in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. These include a resource centre, creative and social activities, training courses, an outreach support service.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 12 years

www.wirralsociety.org.uk

hello@wirralsociety.org.uk

01516528877

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£171£202£-31n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£173£182£-9n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£260£150£110n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£133£139£-6n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£116£152£-36n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18£171£154£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£133£158£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£144£147£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£134£134£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£151£170£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£257£161£96£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Wirral,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£173,300
Steve Morgan Foundation£78,726
BBC Children in Need£45,000
DCMS£44,219
National Lottery Community Fund£9,800
John Moores Foundation£5,000
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£45,000 27/07/2023
This grant will provide funding to build core capacity in the organisation to deliver additional support for children and young people with varying levels of sight loss to support them with building ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£78,726 06/12/2022
3 years funding for the Centre Supervisor salary
National Lottery Community Fund - Celebrating Senses
£9,800 22/04/2022
The company will renew the garden space at their Community Resource Centre which has become neglected during the pandemic restoring and improving on what is there to add new sensory features. The ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£5,000 25/11/2021
Towards towards costs of our Counselling Service
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind & Partially Sighted
£75,000 23/10/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing support to people with sight loss impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Borough of Wirral.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£37,500 23/10/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,719 03/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
CAF - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£5,000 12/05/2020
3
Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted to support the organisation through COVID19
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind & Partially Sighted
£98,300 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' salary of an Advocacy Officer and Low Vision Training Officer at a project providing information, advice and low vision equipment training for individuals with different levels ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Celebrating senses
£9,510 14/03/2019
12
The aim of the project is to build the skills and confidence of visually impaired people by raising their awareness of what they can achieve. The organisation will mark its 30th anniversary by ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wirral Society of The Blind and Partially Sighted
£3,661 19/11/2018
We need to buy up to date computers and low vision software to enable visually impaired people to access computer technology.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£15,000 21/02/2018
24
This request would enable the charity to bring in consultants with the expertise to support them to develop M&E systems, explore income diversification opportunities and strengthen their ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 23/01/2018
Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£14,604 01/09/2017
Towards training for volunteers
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted
£35,000 29/04/2014
The charity provides a range of services to people with visual disabilities. Focusing on identified need, services are aimed at promoting, encouraging and facilitating self help and independence by ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Support Service
£100,542 09/06/2010
36
This project offers an outreach support service to blind and partially sighted people in Wirral. The service will create more accessible opportunities, improve independent living skills and maximise ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 46-78
  • ADELE LAW Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/05/2012, number: 1147170
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/03/2012, number: 07982870
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ashville Lodge
Ashville Road
Birkenhead
Wirral
Merseyside
CH41 8AU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION, TRAINING, WELFARE, INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION AND WELL-BEING OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WIRRAL. IN PURSUIT OF THESE OBJECTS, THE CHARITY SHALL PROVIDE OR FACILITATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COURSES, CREATIVE AND LIFESTYLE ACTIVITIES, INFORMATION ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES, INCLUDING ADVOCACY AND COUNSELLING, DEMONSTRATIONS OF INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS TO PROMOTE SELF-HELP AND INDEPENDENCE, ORGANISATION OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVENTS AND PROMOTIONAL AND FUND-RAISING ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS MEMBERS AND CLIENTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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