Sight Support Worthing

Registered charity 1078504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORTHING SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

Promoting and enhancing the independence and wellbeing of visually impaired people. Including events, clubs & classes, assistive tech, counselling and advisory services.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED LIVING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BOROUGH OF WORTHING

Area of benefit: WORTHING

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of £2,646,525, with unrestricted funds of £2,134,367. The trustees' report indicates a policy to maintain at least 12 months of reserves, and the independent examiner confirmed no matters gave cause for concern regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 31/03/2024 (received 13/02/2025, 13 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Aviva Community Fund — “Aviva Community Fund are currently matching donations to us Find out more!” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adil Siganporia · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kelly O'Haire
• Mark Scott
• NEIL CLARKE
• Penny Daly
• ROBERT JOHN SMYTHERMAN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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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
• SOMERSET SIGHT LIMITED income £576k
• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• ASIST income £1.4m
• THE PRIMARY CLUB income £209k

Side by side with its peers

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