SIGHT AIREDALE

Registered charity 1080245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEIGHLEY AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

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Objects

TO ADVOCATE, DEVELOP AND PROVIDE SERVICES AND FACILITIES WHETHER PRACTICAL, FINANCIAL OR OTHERWISE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO ARE REGISTERED BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE WITH DIGNITY IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE AND SOCIETY

Area of benefit: KEIGHLEY AND DISTRICT

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £31,343 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in an overall deficit of £41,610 when including investment losses. The trustees acknowledge that the charity has suffered problems requiring dipping into investments to run operations, noting that fixed asset investments fell from £227,356 to £182,959. Despite these pressures, the trustees remain satisfied that sufficient funds are available to maintain services for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03762507

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.

• BROUGHTON, Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 17/11/2017on trustee list
• BOOTHROYD, Michael Sam — director, appointed 09/12/2013not on trustee list
• OGDEN, David Leslie — director, appointed 13/10/2009not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR D L OGDENchair
• ANNE BROUGHTON
• EMMERSON WAYNE WALGROVE · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR M S BOOTHROYD
• MRS J HUTCHINSON

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Lancashire · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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