LINCOLN & LINDSEY BLIND SOCIETY

Registered charity 1132353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society works to improve the overall quality of life for people with a visual impairment in North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, East and West Lindsey and Lincoln City. We achieve this by enabling and encouraging independent living through home visiting, the provision of and access to information, equipment and services and the development of community based activities and support.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF AND EDUCATION IN INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS OF BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF LINCOLN, EAST AND WEST LINDSEY, NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CENTRES ESTABLISHED FOR SUCH PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: CITY OF LINCOLN, EAST AND WEST LINDSEY, NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Registered contact address: East Lindsey, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £26,500 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £436,371 to £428,097. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with sufficient assets to meet obligations. Free reserves stood at £253,531, which the trustees consider appropriate relative to their policy of holding twelve months' expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lincoln & Lindsey Blind Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy James Dixonchair
• Andrew Moorby
• HOWARD GENN
• John Durham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Edward Kelsey
• Raymond Stewart Edmonds
• Zachary Shaw
• Zoe King

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · North East Lincolnshire · North Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE BLIND SOCIETY.

• SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE BLIND SOCIETY income £191k
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION income £335k
• DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k

Side by side with its peers

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