DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD
Registered charity 1080986 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAB, SIGHT SUPPORT DERBYSHIRE
The Derbyshire Association OF the Blind aims to enhance the quality of visually impaired peoples' lives by providing a comprehensive range of services and activities throughout Derbyshire.
Objects
5. ObjectsThe objects (“Objects”) of the Company are the following:For the public benefit to:(a) Provide relief and support to people of all ages in need, whether by youth, age, ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage and in particular those affected by sight loss (including people who are blind or partially sighted and people with dual sensory loss (deaf blind) and primarily (but not exclusively) to those people living in Derby and Derbyshire.(b) Advance education and promote understanding about eye health and sight loss; and(c) Prevent avoidable sight loss.
Area of benefit: DERBY, DERBYSHIRE
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £109,533 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £827,196. Free reserves stood at £418,513, which is £68,513 above the charity's stated upper policy threshold of £350,000. The Trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern and noted no material uncertainties.
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 4 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
- 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
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £392k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£51k
Reported reserves equal ~16.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (07/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- MARTIN JOHN WILSONchair
- Charlotte Victoria Brodie
- Deborah Hilton-Barber
- Elizabeth Anne Copper
- JEAN SHARP
- Jane Beverley Cowell
- Paul Anthony Mitchell
- ROBERT GILL
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Derbyshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £109,533 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £827,196. Free reserves stood at £418,513, which is £68,513 above the charity's stated upper policy threshold of £350,000. The Trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern and noted no material uncertainties. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD as a grant recipient include THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST, THE KENTOWN WIZARD FOUNDATION, KATHLEEN BERYL SLEIGH CHARITABLE TRUST, BELVEDERE TRUST.
Known funders
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