HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND

Registered charity 1055498 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OPEN SIGHT, OpenSight

Wellbeing and emotional support, independent living aids and magnification equipment, grants, information advice and guidance, activities and services to sight impaired people in Hampshire.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, SIGHT IMPAIRED AND OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE SIGHT IS AT RISK, LIVING IN ENGLAND, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THOSE IN HAMPSHIRE

Area of benefit: SOUTH OF ENGLAND, PRIMARILY HAMPSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £17,390 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a previous deficit. The trustees confirm the charity has a sound financial footing, with unrestricted reserves of £678,909 and total funds of £2,436,144, supported by significant fixed asset investments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03178631 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Open Sight (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• KYNE, Helen — director, appointed 27/07/2026on trustee list
• JARRAR, Zakariya — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list
• FOSTER, Steven Philip — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• ANGELL-COLLINS, Daniel — director, appointed 26/01/2026not on trustee list
• BAKER, William Anthony Jeffrey’S — director, appointed 26/01/2026on trustee list
• OLIPHANT, Mark — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• ROBINS, Vivien Mary, Dr — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Lynn Valerie — director, appointed 12/08/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~38.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Collins
• Dr Vivien Mary Robins
• Helen Kyne
• Lynn Simpson
• Mark Oliphant
• Steven Foster
• William Baker
• Zakariya Jarrar

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £228k
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k
• DEVON COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £94k
• DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD income £732k
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• WARWICKSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £565k

Side by side with its peers

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