BLIND CHILDREN UK

Registered charity 1051607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELP THE BLIND, N.B.C.S., NATIONAL BLIND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY · also registered in Scotland as SC042089 (OSCR)

Support of visually impaired children, their families & helpers by providing the 5 key services of Family support, Educational advocacy, I/T support & equipment, Holidays & activities & Large print books.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UP TO THE AGE OF 25 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £298,000 at the end of the financial year, maintaining the same level as the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated a net income of £316,000, which was entirely granted to Guide Dogs, resulting in no surplus or deficit for the period. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with negligible liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03133018
• Trading subsidiary: BLIND CHILDREN UK (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 04245581

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.

• CROFTS, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 07/07/2021on trustee list
• SONDHI, Ranjit, Dr — director, appointed 07/07/2021on trustee list
• MILLARD, Marianne Lisa — secretary, appointed 01/01/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Ranjit Sondhichair
• Catherine Mary Crofts

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VICTA CHILDREN LTD.

• VICTA CHILDREN LTD income £1.2m
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k
• THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £163.8m
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• ACTION FOR BLIND PEOPLE income £5.9m
• Sight Support West of England income £978k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.