RINGWOOD AND FORDINGBRIDGE CLUB FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 1138219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RFCB

Provide a social club, with refreshments, entertainment and outings. Provide transport for members to attend club and outings. Home visiting offering help and advice to visually impaired members to enable them to continue to live independently and to enjoy their life to the full.The club is run and organised purely by volunteers who contribute greatly to the success of the club.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE WHO ARE RESIDENT IN RINGWOOD, FORDINGBRIDGE, SOUTH WEST HAMPSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN ANY CHARITABLE WAY IN WHICH THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: RINGWOOD, FORDINGBRIDGE, SOUTH WEST HAMPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a surplus of £25,827.66 for the year, derived from total receipts of £31,425.31 against total expenditure of £5,597.65. The document does not disclose any reserves policy or unrestricted reserves figures for comparison. No audit or independent examination report is present in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 04/02/2025, 4 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 11/09/2024, 224 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HILARY ANN WALKERchair
• JUNE CAROL TI CEHURST
• KATHLEEN HENDERSON
• ROSEMARY DAISY ANDERSON
• Russell Webb

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEESSIDE AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• TEESSIDE AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £161k
• WATFORD SOCIAL CENTRE FOR THE BLIND income £65k
• WORCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £461k
• PORTSMOUTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £64k
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k

Side by side with its peers

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