PORTSMOUTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 1142574 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAB

Various activities, singing, games, and lunches. Day trips to various venues. Members transport which delivers them door to door.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS IN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH AND ITS SURROUNDS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE FORMALLY REGISTERED, BY PROMOTING THEIR WELFARE, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £300,842 to £291,592 due to a net expenditure of £9,250, driven by total resources expended of £73,201 against incoming resources of £63,951. Per the trustees' report, the charity continues to operate its social groups and minibus service, though it faces challenges in recruiting volunteers. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/03/2025 (received 12/02/2026, 12 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 11/03/2024, 40 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Portsmouth Association for the Blind (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER WANLEYchair
• BARRY PIKE
• Deborah French
• IRIS SMITH
• Paul Oakley - Cleife

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City

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
• MERTON VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £442k
• WORCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £461k
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k
• PODSMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £43k
• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k

Side by side with its peers

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