NEWCASTLE VISION SUPPORT

Registered charity 1115815 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWCASTLE SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE, NEWCASTLE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND PEOLPLE

Newcastle Vision Support supports 1,300 people living with sight loss. Our numbers grow by 100 new referrals each year. To our service users NVS provides vital support enabling clients to overcome the devastating effects of sight loss. Services provided include - outreach, volunteer visiting, training (including IT training places to 60 clients per year), a resource centre and much more.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT CALCULATED TO MEET THEIR NEEDS - PROVIDED THAT SUCH SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN IN A WAY WHICH INCREASES AND RESPECTS THE INDEPENDENCE, CHOICE, PRIVACY AND DIGNITY OF SUCH PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £17,278 for the period ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £241,278 and expenditure of £224,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, noting that budgeted income and reserves are sufficient for the next 12 months. However, the trustees identify short-term grant funding and restricted income sources as principal risks due to competitive funding landscapes.

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.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05865697 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Newcastle Vision Support (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.

• PAGES, Marc — director, appointed 10/08/2023not on trustee list
• RANCE, Lesley — director, appointed 10/08/2023on trustee list
• DEAS, David Renwick — director, appointed 10/08/2023on trustee list
• BUCKLEY, Heather — director, appointed 10/08/2023on trustee list
• DAVIES, Richard, Mr. — director, appointed 26/07/2022not on trustee list
• DEAS, Maxine Ann, Mrs. — director, appointed 30/09/2021on trustee list
• GOODFELLOW, Angela Caroline, Mrs. — director, appointed 30/09/2021on 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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Davies MBEchair
• ANGELA CAROLINE GOODFELLOW
• David Deas
• Maxine Deas

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VISION NORFOLK.

• VISION NORFOLK income £1.1m
• VISION NORTH SOMERSET income £323k
• 4SIGHT VISION SUPPORT income £407k
• Newcastle Women 's Aid income £200k
• Vision Support Barrow & District income £2.5m
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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