COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND
Registered charity 1134570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Coventry Vision Hub
Relief of people affected by blindness, partial sight or other disabling diseases of the eye.Provision in the interests of social welfare of recreational and educational facilities for such people.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that free reserves were £200,515, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet working capital requirements and sustain the charity for a year while securing further funding. The charity reported a net income surplus of £4,886 for the year, with total income of £341,753 against total expenditure of £336,867.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: approximately six months operating expenditure (held: £201k)
“They have established a policy whereby the free reserves, being general funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets, should be approximately six months operating expenditure.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- BROPHY, Paul — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
- YOUNG, Erica Jane Cornwell — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
- BALLINGER, Julian Aubrey — director, appointed 22/02/2024on trustee list
- HORSPOOL, Matthew Frank — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
- FOSSEY, Anthony Stanley — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
- GALVIN, Mark Christopher — director, appointed 26/07/2018on trustee list
- TAYLOR, Kenneth John — director, appointed 02/06/2015on trustee list
- YOUNG, Helen Otteran — director, appointed 12/05/2015on trustee list
- GRIFFITHS, Patricia Lucy — director, appointed 03/08/2009not on 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 (1 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. 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 (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- KENNETH JOHN TAYLORchair
- Anthony Stanley Fossey · trustee of 1 other charity
- Erica Jane Young
- HELEN OTTERAN YOUNG
- Julian Aubrey Ballinger
- MARK CHRISTOPHER GALVIN
- Matthew Frank Horspool · trustee of 1 other charity
- Matthew Johnson
- Paul Brophy
- Simon James Leigh
- TRICIA GRIFFITHS
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Coventry City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves were £200,515, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet working capital requirements and sustain the charity for a year while securing further funding. The charity reported a net income surplus of £4,886 for the year, with total income of £341,753 against total expenditure of £336,867. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND?
Funders whose own accounts filings name COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND as a grant recipient include THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST, THOMAS POCKLINGTON TRUST, THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INSURERS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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