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Registered charity 1078287 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH WIRELESS FOR THE BLIND FUND, WIRELESS FUND / WIRELESS FOR THE BLIND / BWBF · also registered in Scotland as SC041582 (OSCR)

The object of the Charity is the relief of those eligible to be registered blind or partially sighted in the British Isles in such a way that the as the trustees see fit. This includes the provision of equipment and services, in accordance with its Memorandum of Association

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH SIGHT LOSS IN THE UK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, AND COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVES TO HELP ALLEVIATE ASSOCIATED ISOLATION AND LONELINESS THAT RESULTS FROM THAT SIGHT LOSS.

Area of benefit: BRITISH ISLES

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

Causes: Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lichfield, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £486,190 for the year, funded from reserves, resulting in a general unrestricted balance of £191,000 (approximately 1.5 months' operating costs) at year-end. However, the trustees released £500,000 of designated funds after the year end, increasing the available unrestricted reserves to cover 6 months' operating costs. The charity holds total reserves of £2.7 million, including £2.3 million in designated funds for specific future needs such as closure costs and investment losses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 54.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Bracechair
• Alex Froom
• Alicia Coghlan
• ELEANOR LUCY HOPKINS
• JASON CHARLES DOMINIC MOWE
• John Biggs
• John Patrick Beesley
• Quentin Howard · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT MARK FORSTER

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY.

• THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY income £410k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £321k
• WARRINGTON VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE income £142k
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• VISION CHURCH LTD income £130k
• THE TRUELOVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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