HASTINGS AND ROTHER VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 1102016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Association's principle activities are providing a residential care home at Healey House, day clubs at the John Taplin Centre and Bexhill, together with the provision of advice, information and support to visually impaired people of all ages living in the Hastings Borough and Rother District areas. The Charity also provides low vision support services for East Sussex County Council.

Objects

TO RELIEVE AND CARE FOR THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED IN THE BOROUGH OF HASTINGS AND THE DISTRICT OF ROTHER AND THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT VISUAL DISABILITY AND HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE BLIND"

Area of benefit: HASTINGS AND ROTHER

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £41,416 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,221,375 to £1,179,959. The trustees report free reserves of £212,775 and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no trading subsidiaries.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03636957

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.

• JOHNSON, Raymond Philip — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• HOLLIS, Andrew John Ormerod — director, appointed 30/11/2018on trustee list
• PEIRCE, Eric Alan — director, appointed 26/07/2018on trustee list
• PATMORE, Andrew — director, appointed 24/05/2016not on trustee list
• GREENHALGH, Peter John — director, appointed 04/10/2014on trustee list
• LANE, Richard Carlisle — director, appointed 13/01/2014on trustee list
• NOVIS, Terence Stephen — director, appointed 08/04/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Hastings and Rother Voluntary Association for the Blind — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/06/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (54% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Healey House: Good (14/06/2023) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Ormerod Hollis
• Eric Alan Peirce
• Graeme David Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter John Greenhalgh · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD CARLISLE LANE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Raymond Philip Johnson
• Terence Stephen Novis · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND.

• HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND income £535k
• THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £228k
• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k
• EAST SUSSEX VISION CARE income £157k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED income £397k

Side by side with its peers

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