Vision Foundation for London

Registered charity 1074958 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5600614 · Wikipedia · also known as GLFB, GREATER LONDON FUND FOR THE BLIND, Vision Foundation

Vision Foundation plays a critical role in transforming lives and saving sight by working in partnership with others to deliver projects which inform, empower and include. In addition to providing funding we research, campaign and advocate on behalf of all blind and partially sighted people.

Objects

The purpose of the charity is for the public benefit, the relief of people in need by reason of blindness or visual impairment,and the advancement of education and health in all areas relating to blindness and sight loss, in particular, but not limited to, providing grants.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE M25 MOTORWAY

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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 01/04/2023)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.7% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Darren Barker
• Tom Rees · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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