HEARING IMPAIRMENT AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT SUPPORT UK

Registered charity 1166368 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HI-VIS UK

Hi-Vis UK is raising awareness and increasing support for people with acquired dual sensory loss (deafblindness)

Objects

1. RAISING AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE CHALLENGES FACED BY DUAL SENSORY IMPAIRED PEOPLE INCLUDING BY HIGHLIGHTING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH ACQUIRED DUAL SENSORY IMPAIRMENT AND ASSOCIATED ACQUIRED COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; AND2. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND SKILLS OF THOSE CARING FOR PEOPLE WITH, OR FACING, DUEL SENSORY IMPAIRMENT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PEOPLE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £668 at the end of the period, noting that it utilises almost all income in the delivery of charitable objectives. The document does not disclose a specific reserves policy target or any material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID SUTTON
• DR Richelle Christie Duffy
• JANICE LAVERS
• KAREN ELIZABETH MAUREEN WINSPEAR

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEAFBLIND UK.

• DEAFBLIND UK income £3.6m
• HI KENT income £574k
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• VISIONARY - LINKING LOCAL SIGHT LOSS CHARITIES income £399k
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• SIGHT CYMRU income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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