Fight for Sight

Registered charity 1111438 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, EYE RESEARCH UK, Forward Vision, Vision Matters

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £8.1 million, which is substantially higher than the stated target of £5.3 million, although total net assets decreased from £12.2 million to £9.4 million due to a planned draw-down. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern and maintains a strong liquidity position supported by diversified income streams.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fight for Sight (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Alan Stitt — Chief Scientific Advisor (source)

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Dr Heather Gileschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Darren Barker
• Dr Sarah Robinson
• Dr VICTOR CHUA
• Georgie Stewart
• Michael Talbot
• Oonagh Turnbull
• Professor Christopher Hammond
• Sonia Morar
• Sylvester Oppong
• Tom Rees · trustee of 1 other charity

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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Charities like this

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

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• RETINA UK income £2.2m
• RICHMOND TRUST FUND income £220k