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INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS

Registered charity 1100559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS (UK) LIMITED

1 Advocacy to influence government policy, health systems and resourcing decisions at global, regional and national levels 2 Promotion of knowledge and learning so Members are more able to contribute to eye health3 Generate resources sufficient to enable Members to deliver the strategy4 Global initiatives that bring value and enhance collaboration to achieve universal eye health coverage

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£4.7m
Latest spending
£4.1m
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £909,644, representing 2.7 months of budgeted operating expenditure, which is slightly below the charity's own policy target of three months. Despite this slight shortfall, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations through at least September 2026.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £910k; policy: three months of unrestricted operating expenditure)
“The unrestricted free reserves of £909,644 represent 2.7 months’ of 2025 budgeted unrestricted operating expenditure. This is slightly below the IAPB’s policy of 3 months’ of free unrestricted operating expenditure.” — page 8
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: IAPB Trading Limited
“the charity has a wholly-owned subsidiary company, IAPB Trading Limited, which has not traded in 2024 or 2023.” — page 5
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

IAPB TRADING LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

    Leadership, per the charity’s website

    Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

    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.

    Official officers record.

    Electoral Commission register entries

    Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

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

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

    Total income
    £4.7m
    Total spending
    £4.1m
    Cost of raising funds
    £489k
    Reserves (reported)
    £880k
    Employees
    40

    Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

    Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

    Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

    Trustees · trustee networks

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

    Operates in: South Africa · Throughout London

    Income and spending

    Financial year endIncomeSpending
    31/12/2025£4.7m£4.1m
    31/12/2024£4.0m£3.4m
    31/12/2023£3.1m£3.4m
    31/12/2022£3.0m£3.0m
    31/12/2021£2.3m£2.3m

    Common questions

    Is INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS financially healthy?

    Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £909,644, representing 2.7 months of budgeted operating expenditure, which is slightly below the charity's own policy target of three months. Despite this slight shortfall, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations through at least September 2026. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

    Funders of similar charities

    Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

    FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
    ROBERT LUFF FOUNDATION LIMITED1£75k
    THE INDIGO TRUST1£75k
    THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION1£51k
    T F C FROST CHARITABLE TRUST1£45k
    MIVA FOUNDATION1£25k
    PAYNE GALLWEY 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST1£15k
    THE REED FOUNDATION1£15k
    THE WYSELIOT ROSE CHARITABLE TRUST1£12k

    Charities like this

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

    Side by side with its peers

    CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
    INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS£4.7m——below—no doubt
    SIGHT RESEARCH UK FY2025£871k—0below—no doubt
    INTERNATIONAL GLAUCOMA ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025£2.5m—1unclear—no doubt
    AL BASAR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FY2024£18.6m—0above—no doubt
    VISION CATALYST FUND FY2025£687k£70,001 - £80,0001unclear—no doubt
    I.O.O. LIMITED FY2023£4.4m—0below—material uncertainty

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