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

Fight for Sight funds brilliant minds and bright ideas putting change in sight.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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

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).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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 · trustee networks

• Dr Heather Gileschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Darren Barker
• Dr Sarah Robinson
• Dr VICTOR CHUA
• Georgie Stewart
• Michael Talbot
• 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• SIGHT RESEARCH UK income £871k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• SIGHT FOR LIFE TRUST income £775k
• BRIGHT SIDE income £351k
• THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY income £410k
• National Centre For Universities and Business income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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