SIGHT RESEARCH UK

Registered charity 1156134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH EYE FOUNDATION, British Sight Foundation, NATIONAL EYE RESEARCH CENTRE, Sight Loss Research UK, Vision Research UK

The relief of sickness and the promotion of good health for the public benefit by funding and supporting research into the causes and treatment of eye disease and blindness and publishing and disseminating the useful results thereof.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY FUNDING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF EYE DISEASE AND BLINDNESS AND PUBLISHING AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total income of £870,637 and reported a net income of £253,955 for the year ended 30 June 2025. The charity holds unrestricted general funds of £956,691 and a designated Impact Protection Fund of £1,000,000, which the Trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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

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 — Sight Research UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Margaret Elizabeth Mayochair
• Antonia Seymour
• Clive Ian Hetherington
• Dr Dolores Conroy
• John Richard Swarbrick
• Professor Barbara Pierscionek
• Professor John Greenwood PhD
• Robert Drewett
• Serena Salvatore
• Simon Bowker

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIGHT FOR LIFE TRUST.

• SIGHT FOR LIFE TRUST income £775k
• VISION RESCUE UK income £36k
• SIGHT CYMRU income £543k
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• SUFFOLK SIGHT income £202k
• Sight Support Worthing income £287k

Side by side with its peers

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