East Cheshire Eye Society

Registered charity 1174656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MACCLESFIELD EYE SOCIETY, MACCLESFIELD SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND, MES, THE EYE SOCIETY

Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired persons in the area of East Cheshire. Maintaining Resource Centre of specialist equipment. Advice and help on visual difficulties. Social and recreation activities provided.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND AND THOSE WHO HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY DEFECTIVE SIGHT2) TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED 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 recorded a deficit of £16,506 on its operations for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £58,168 and expenditure of £74,674. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £438,012, which they confirm are sufficient for the Society to remain in successful operation for some years to come.

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/03/2024, 34 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN HUGH FREDERICK TURNER
• Dr Louise Jayne Hastings
• Emily Mary Armstrong
• john stephen mills
• martin welch
• pamela hodgkiss

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sight Support West of England.

• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• CHESHIRE DEAF SOCIETY income £2.8m
• STAFFORDSHIRE SIGHT LOSS ASSOCIATION income £119k
• Southend in Sight income £337k
• SOCIAL EYES income £987k
• MYVISION OXFORDSHIRE income £550k

Side by side with its peers

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