CHRISTIAN BLIND MISSION (UNITED KINGDOM) LIMITED

Registered charity 1058162 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471674 · also known as C B M, CBM (UK), CHRISTIAN BLIND MISSION, END THE CYCLE OF POVERTY & DISABILITY · also registered in Scotland as SC041101 (OSCR)

CBM UK transforms the lives of people with disabilities, their families and communities in the poorest places in the world. We work with local partners to prevent and cure diseases that cause disability and build a world where people with disabilities can fulfil their potential, helping them access healthcare and education, build sustainable livelihoods and play an active role in their community

Objects

3.1 (A) TO PROVIDE FOR THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL ORMENTAL DISABILITIES OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BLINDNESSAND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, AND INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PREVENTATIVETREATMENT, OR THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL AIDS FORBLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED AND OTHER DISABLED PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR INCOUNTRIES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD; AND(B) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, OR AT RISKOF DISABILITY, AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND FOR THOSE CARING FOR, EMPLOYING,ASSISTING OR OTHERWISE HAVING DEALINGS WITH SUCH PERSONS, IN PARTICULARIN COUNTRIES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £833,000 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a strategic decision to utilize reserves for additional programming. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £5.3m, which is at the top end of the stated target range of £2.5m to £5.3m, and the board confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03148424

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.

• TAN, Elizabeth Felicity — director, appointed 23/09/2026not on trustee list
• RAYTON, Flynne Emma — director, appointed 04/06/2026on trustee list
• AKEREJOLA AKINDURO, Ifunfun — director, appointed 26/09/2024not on trustee list
• ALI, Amjad — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• M'HONE, Fingani — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• ACKERS, William — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• MORRIS, Timothy Colin, Mr. — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
• MASSELLA, Antonio Roberto Paolo — director, appointed 25/02/2022on trustee list
• ROBSON, Thomas Victor — director, appointed 11/02/2021on trustee list
• DUN, Elizabeth Helen — director, appointed 22/01/2019on trustee list
• DILLARSTONE, Robert — director, appointed 22/01/2019on trustee list
• BARKER, Ian — secretary, appointed 14/07/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amjad Ali
• Antonio Roberto Paolo Massella
• Elizabeth Dun
• Elizabeth Tan
• Fingani M'Hone
• Flynne Rayton
• Ifunfun Akerejola Akinduro
• Robert Dillarstone · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Victor Robson
• Timothy Morris
• William Ackers

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Germany · Indonesia · Kenya · Malawi · Nepal · Nigeria · Northern Ireland · Rwanda · Scotland · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK).

• CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £158k
• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVANTS LIMITED income £51k
• MERCY MISSION UK income £9.3m
• BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION income £1.4m
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k
• CHURCH OF GOD MISSION INTERNATIONAL UK income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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