WEST CUMBRIA SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
Charity number: 1012522
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
1 We provide a Resource & information Centre open 9am-5pm Mon to Friday. 2 We provide an outreach visiting service and social clubs for blind or partially sighted.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £51,591
Total expenditure: £84,491
People
4 Trustee(s)
6 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Cumbria
Governance
Registration history:
- 02 July 1992: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
- LOOK - THE WEST CUMBRIA SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND (Previous name)
- LOOK - WEST CUMBRIA SOCIETY FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| David Arthur Linstead | Chair | 17 May 2024 |
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| David Rogac | Trustee | 31 May 2024 |
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| Mildred Josephine Linsead | Trustee | 17 May 2024 |
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| Christopher Gerard Quinn | Trustee | 05 January 2024 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £44.00k | £70.44k | £118.65k | £123.35k | £51.59k | |
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Total expenditure | £79.61k | £72.86k | £67.61k | £64.84k | £84.49k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £48.63k | £2.67k | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 22 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 22 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 17 January 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 17 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 13 December 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 13 December 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 01 November 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 01 November 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 06 November 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 06 November 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |