SURREY ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Registered charity 1121949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SENSORY SERVICES BY SIGHT FOR SURREY, SIGHT FOR SURREY

Sight for Surrey (the trading name for Surrey Association for Visual Impairment) works with people who are vision impaired, Deaf, Hard of Hearing or who have combined sight and hearing loss. The charity has provided support to vision impaired people since 1922, and those with combined sight and hearing loss since 1993. It began to deliver services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in February 2016.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH SENSORY IMPAIRMENT.

Area of benefit: SURREY

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mole Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an audited operational surplus of £176,769 and total reserves of £2,017,259, with free reserves standing at £31,415. The trustees confirmed that assets are adequate to fulfill obligations, and the independent auditor reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Warner Wilde Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06309405 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• SCARROTT, Adam — director, appointed 19/12/2023on trustee list
• LIVERSIDGE, David — director, appointed 21/09/2022on trustee list
• GREEN, Benjamin Arthur Charlett — director, appointed 21/09/2022on trustee list
• LEWIS, Grant Emery — director, appointed 08/01/2021on trustee list
• GUNN, Penny Anne — director, appointed 16/10/2020on trustee list
• DA-SILVA-SKINNER, Mary Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/10/2017on trustee list
• WILMSHURST, Christine Bernedette — director, appointed 22/03/2017on trustee list
• GILMORE, Russell William — director, appointed 22/03/2017on trustee list
• WHERRY, Steven Brian — director, appointed 22/03/2017on trustee list
• TURNBULL, Robert Langford — director, appointed 22/08/2012not on trustee list
• BURGESS, Clare — secretary, appointed 01/02/2023

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE WILMSHURSTchair
• Adam Scarrott
• BOB TURNBULL
• Benjamin Green
• David Liversidge
• Grant Lewis
• Mary Da-Silva-Skinner
• Penny Anne Gunn
• RUSSELL GILMORE
• Robert Gurth Hughes
• STEVEN WHERRY

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

Operates in: Surrey

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 Vision Support Barrow & District.

• Vision Support Barrow & District income £2.5m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £640k
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k
• SURREY COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £962k
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• SIGHT ADVICE SOUTH LAKES income £274k

Side by side with its peers

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