Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Reasonable growth: +1
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 10

WALSALL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE

To help relieve distress and poor health amongst bereaved people by listening, individual counselling, peer support and information sharing; without distinction of age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or social class; to advance the education of the public to understand the needs of bereaved people including the sharing of information on good practice with other helping agencies.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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 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
Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 11 years

www.wbss.org.uk

admin@wbss.org.uk

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Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£180	£226	£-46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/22	£293	£163	£130	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	32
31/03/21	£168	£159	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/20	£170	£158	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/19	£137	£127	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/18	£107	£129	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£145	£143	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£154	£144	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£240	£141	£99	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Walsall,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
25 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	£183,300
DCMS	£36,194
BBC Children in Need	£19,990
True Colours Trust	£5,000
CAF	£2,273
Heart Of England Community Foundation	£2,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards its child bereavement support service, The SWING
£5,000	17/05/2022	Towards its child bereavement support service, The SWING
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Services
£93,300	17/05/2022 36	towards three years' salary of a Child Counsellor at the 'Swing bereavement support service' project for children and young people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Walsall, West Midlands.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - The Swing
£2,000	15/09/2021	Towards the annual running costs of the organisation’s children and young people’s counselling service ‘The Swing’.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Service
£19,990	30/07/2021	This project will deliver therapeutic support sessions to young people experiencing bereavement and/or mental ill health. Outcomes include improved emotional wellbeing, a sense of empowerment and ....more This project will deliver therapeutic support sessions to young people experiencing bereavement and/or mental ill health. Outcomes include improved emotional wellbeing, a sense of empowerment and positive relationships.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Services
£90,000	12/08/2020 36	towards three years' continuation funding of a children, young people and family bereavement support service in Walsall, West Midlands.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£36,194	29/07/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Service
£2,273	03/06/2020	Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Service to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Walsall Bereavement Support Service: Let?s Talk
£159,079	14/12/2018 36	This project will address the mental health and practical needs of bereaved adults who are struggling with their grief. This will be achieved through one to one support, counselling and group ....more This project will address the mental health and practical needs of bereaved adults who are struggling with their grief. This will be achieved through one to one support, counselling and group sessions. The aim is to tackle issues at the earliest possible stage, preventing further harm and improving lives.
True Colours Trust - towards its bereavement support project, The Swing
£5,000	04/07/2018	towards its bereavement support project, The Swing
Heart Of England Community Foundation - The Swing - helping vulnerable bereaved children, young people and their families to cope with bereavement
£10,000	22/06/2018 12	Part-time counsellor to help to deliver outreach and out of hours support to vulnerable bereaved children within local schools.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Services
£90,000	08/06/2017 36	towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing children and young people's bereavement support in the West Midlands
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards counselling costs for children/young people and their families
£1,000	04/11/2016	Towards the counselling costs for children, young people and their families.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Walsall Bereavement Support Services
£80,300	12/06/2014 36	towards three years' salary of the Children's Service Co-ordinator to manage and develop the organisation's bereavement service for children and young people in Walsall

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

AKINOLA MEHEUX Appointed: 2023

ALYSON GREEN Appointed: 2019

BEV SIMPSON Appointed: 2016

JIM GREEN (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Other trusteeship: THE CENTRAL ENGLAND AREA QUAKER MEETING CHARITIES,

NEIL ODELL SIMPSON Appointed: 2016

SANDEV PANASER Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/07/2013, number: 1152724

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
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

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Office Suite 2
The Crossing At St. Pauls
Darwall Street
WALSALL
WS1 1DA

Objectives

1) TO HELP RELIEVE HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND POOR HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED BEREAVEMENT THROUGH THE DEATH OF A CLOSE RELATIVE OR FRIEND, BY PROVIDING SERVICES SUCH AS LISTENING, BEFRIENDING, ADVICE, INFORMATION, COUNSELLING, PRACTICAL HELP ON AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP BASIS IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE, SEX, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR SOCIAL CLASS.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE NEEDS OF BEREAVED PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE SHARING OF INFORMATION ON GOOD PRACTICE WITH OTHER AGENCIES.

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