CATHOLIC BLIND INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1102657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTOPHER GRANGE, ST VINCENT'S SCHOOL FOR BLIND & PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN

1. Day / 4 night residential education[full National Curriculum]for children with visual impairment age 4 - 19 at St Vincent's School. Mobility/independence/speech/language/music therapy included.2. Residential and nursing care, including palliative care, at Christopher Grange.3.A wide portfolio of community based and rehabilitation services at Bradbury Fields and Sight Loss Learning Hub.

Objects

1.1 The Charity?s objects (?the Objects?) are: 1.1.1 For the public benefit to relieve the needs of blind and partially sighted persons in such ways as the Trustees from time to time think fit by (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) the provision of facilities for rehabilitation, education, training, recreation and other forms of support; 1.1.2 The advancement of education and religion among blind and partially sighted children and young people by (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) establishing and supporting any school or similar institution established for advancing the education and religion of such children and young people (conducted in accordance with the doctrine and rites of the Roman Catholic Church); 1.1.3 To relieve the needs of persons who have a disability, including but not limited to Deaf people; and 1.1.4 Such other charitable purposes for the furtherance of education or the relief of poverty or suffering.

Area of benefit: MERSEYSIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £2,345,678 at the year end, representing a surplus for the period. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of preparation.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baker Tilly UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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
• 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 31/03/2022 (received 14/07/2023, 164 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05010874 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Vincent's School for Sensory Impairment & other needs/Christopher Grange Visual Rehabilitation and Care Centres (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HALPIN, Peter James — director, appointed 25/03/2024on trustee list
• BUCKLE, Bernadette Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 14/11/2022on trustee list
• NAWAZ, Mohammed Alam — director, appointed 20/06/2022on trustee list
• WINSTANLEY, Stephen — director, appointed 14/03/2016on trustee list
• O'ROURKE, Martin Gerard — director, appointed 20/09/2004on trustee list
• JONES, Adele Leigh — secretary, appointed 01/10/2024

Official officers record.

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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Catholic Blind Institute — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 29/06/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAM NAWAZ
• Bernadette Buckle
• MARTIN GERARD O'ROURKE
• Peter Halpin
• Stephen WINSTANLEY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND.

• COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND income £381k
• BLIND CHILDREN UK income £328k
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITY, LIVERPOOL income £6.3m
• BERKSHIRE COUNTY BLIND SOCIETY income £634k
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k
• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k

Side by side with its peers

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