4SIGHT VISION SUPPORT

Registered charity 1075447 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 4SIGHT, W S A B, WEST SUSSEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

4Sight provides about 5000 vision impaired people with information, guidance & on-going support to promote independence & prevent social isolation following sight loss. We help people to access advice, equipment, skills & services needed to improve health & wellbeing, build confidence & participate actively in their community and family life.4Sight also campaigns to remove barriers to inclusion

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: WEST SUSSEX

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £407,362 from £488,349 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £443,492, resulting in a net deficit of £36,130. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £164,254 were maintained at the year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue operating charitable services.

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 03740647
• Trading subsidiary: 4SIGHT TRADING LTD Companies House 04654280

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 4Sight Vision Support (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.

• BELL, Carolyn Heather Jane — director, appointed 16/12/2020on trustee list
• KIRKHAM, Julia Kim — director, appointed 16/12/2020on trustee list
• BAKER, Sheilagh — director, appointed 28/10/2016on trustee list
• MAYSON, Arthur James — director, appointed 27/04/2004not on trustee list
• THOMAS, Kirstie — secretary, appointed 01/09/2021

Official officers record.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr NORMAN BOYLANDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ARTHUR JAMES MAYSON ACIB TEP
• Carole Wooldridge
• Heather Bell
• Julia Kirkham
• Sheilagh Baker

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPORT 4 SIGHT.

• SUPPORT 4 SIGHT income £285k
• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• CAMSIGHT income £689k
• SOMERSET SIGHT LIMITED income £576k
• VISION NORTH SOMERSET income £323k
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k

Side by side with its peers

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