MYVISION OXFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1140556 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OAB, OXFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

Provision of support for blind and visually impaired, primarily in Oxfordshire.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are to promote the relief of and to support visually impaired people living in Oxfordshire and its surrounding area in such ways as the trustees think fit to enable them to live independent and active lives.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £7,645 for the year, with total funds decreasing slightly to £914,196. However, the trustees confirm that free unrestricted reserves of £422,725 meet the stated policy of holding six months of expenditure, having increased reserves to eight months to manage inflationary costs. The charity is not dependent on external funding to continue its operations, as confirmed by the independent examiner's report.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MyVision Oxfordshire (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GUY ROGER LAWFULLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anita Lightstone
• JANET JOHNSON
• JULIAN BAGWELL
• PROFESSOR ADRIAN HILL
• Simon Timonthy Holt
• aimee Tuzzio

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH.

• OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH income £2.4m
• East Cheshire Eye Society income £58k
• Sight Support Worthing income £287k
• SOMERSET SIGHT LIMITED income £576k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• Sight Support West of England income £978k

Side by side with its peers

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