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.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY BLINDNESS, PARTIAL SIGHT OR OTHERDISABLING DISEASES OF THE EYE.2. THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF RECREATIONAL ANDEDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PEOPLE.3. THE RELIEF IN CASES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF SUCH PEOPLE OR OF THEIRDEPENDANTS OR OF THE DEPENDANTS OF DECEASED PEOPLE.4. THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ALLDISEASES OF THE EYE ON TERMS THAT THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AREPUBLISHED.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted free reserves of £177,428, which the trustees consider sufficient against a policy target of six months' operating expenditure. The organization operated on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Total income for the year was £380,714, with total expenditure at £345,142, resulting in a net surplus.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 06978996 · 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.

• 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE.

• COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.8m
• COVENTRY CITY MISSION income £145k
• CANTERBURY UMBRELLA income £109k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• THE NEW BLENDWORTH CENTRE LIMITED income £455k
• DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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