VISION CARE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE

Registered charity 1118076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC053215 (OSCR)

VCHP provide free eyecare services to homeless and other vulnerable people in UK in an accessible and friendly environment in which they feel safe, welcome and comfortable. We aim to preserve, protect and promote the ocular health of homeless and other vulnerable people in the UK and include the provision of spectacles that meets their immediate visual needs.

Objects

TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE OCULAR HEALTH OF HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE PEOPLE IN THE UK WHO ARE UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO ACCESS MAINSTREAM SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE NHS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF A COMPREHENSIVE HIGH QUALITY AND FREE AT THE POINT OF USE OCULAR HEALTH SERVICE, INCLUDING SCREENING AND THE PROVISION OF SPECTACLES, THAT MEETS THE IMMEDIATE VISUAL NEEDS OF OUR BENEFICIARIES IN A SAFE, ACCESSIBLE, FRIENDLY AND COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: UK

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by approximately 76% to £469,048, while total expenditure rose by 57% to £413,117, resulting in a net income surplus of £55,931. Per the trustees' report, the charity is operating as a going concern with strengthened financial resilience, although it currently falls below its historic reserves policy target while a new policy is being reviewed.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 05309978

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Vision Care for Homeless People (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.

• PLUCKNETT, Anna Frances — director, appointed 10/07/2026on trustee list
• WHATHAM, Mark James — director, appointed 10/07/2026on trustee list
• LAWE, Sean — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• OLIVER, David — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• CHAPMAN-HATCHETT, Paul William — director, appointed 17/09/2024on trustee list
• SYME, Gillian Louise Fleming — director, appointed 13/02/2024on trustee list
• LOW, Emma — director, appointed 20/07/2021on trustee list
• PAUL, Harinder Singh — director, appointed 10/12/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELAINE STYLESchair
• Anna Frances Plucknett
• David Oliver
• Emma Low
• Gillian Syme
• Harinder Paul
• Mark James Whatham
• Paul Chapman-Hatchett
• Sean Lawe

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Brighton And Hove · Bristol City · Devon · Gloucestershire · Leeds City · Manchester City · Scotland · Tower Hamlets

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 WARRINGTON VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.

• WARRINGTON VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE income £142k
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• HERTS VISION LOSS income £490k
• VISION HOMES ASSOCIATION income £3.6m
• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND PASTORAL CARE income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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