THE RIDLEY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1163293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC052697 (OSCR)

The objective is to provide intra-ocular lens surgery in the cure of cataract blindness to the poor of the Developing World, with the objective of providing the sustainable training of opthalmologists.

Objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE PROMOTION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IN OPHTHALMOLOGY AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH BY THE SUPPORT OR PROVISION OF SUCH FACILITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.B) THE RELIEF IN NEED OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE STUDYING AT OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN ANY CAPACITY IN ANY TEACHING HOSPITAL ENGAGED IN OPHTHALMOLOGY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD OR THEIR DEPENDENTS.

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 Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted reserves of £886,976, which the trustees state are in line with their policy to maintain six months of administration costs and three months of delivery costs. The organization operates with no paid staff or remunerated trustees, relying on volunteers and an endowment fund for UK administration. While the charity maintains sufficient cash reserves to meet commitments for the remainder of the year, it faces operational risks related to funding and political stability in its primary area of operation.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ridley Eye Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LAURETTA CHINTY RIDLEY
• NICHOLAS CHARLES WETHERILL RIDLEY
• PROF DAVID SPALTON
• Sarah Roberts

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

Operates in: Nepal · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EYECARE TRUST.

• THE EYECARE TRUST income £83k
• Visably income £758k
• VINCHEL FOUNDATION income £167k
• THE RADLEY FOUNDATION income £3.1m
• THE CHARTLEY FOUNDATION income £235k
• THE HADLEY PROJECTS FUND income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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