Southend in Sight

Registered charity 1069765 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHEND-ON-SEA BLIND WELFARE ORGANISATION

The principal object of the charity is to offer support for visually impaired and blind persons and their families in Southend on Sea, Essex and the adjoining areas.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRIMARILY IN SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, AND IN ADJOINING AND ADJACENT AREAS TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS ARE CONDUCIVE OR ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: SOUTHEND-ON-SEA IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, AND IN ADJOINING AND ADJACENT AREAS.

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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Registered contact address: Southend-on-Sea, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £1,349. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £344,949, which the Trustees consider adequate to run the day-to-day affairs of the Charity.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03554422

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Southend in 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.

• HEFFERAN, Penny Jane — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Sally — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• MCLEWIN, Clare Louise — director, appointed 20/11/2019not on trustee list
• CABLE, Russell Owen — director, appointed 05/01/2018on trustee list
• COOPER, Stephanie — director, appointed 17/01/2000on trustee list
• WACOGNE, David Emile — director, appointed 14/09/1998not on trustee list
• WARBURTON, Philip George — director, appointed 28/04/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Southend-On-Sea Blind Welfare Organisation — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 04/09/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Louise Mc Lewin
• D E WACOGNE
• PHILIP GEORGE WARBURTON
• Penelope Jane Hefferan
• Russell Owen Cable
• STEPHANIE COOPER
• Sally Davies

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

Operates in: Southend-on-sea

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

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

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 Sight Support West of England.

• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• STAFFORDSHIRE SIGHT LOSS ASSOCIATION income £119k
• SUFFOLK SIGHT income £202k
• Visably income £758k
• East Cheshire Eye Society income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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