SANDWELL VISUALLY IMPAIRED

Registered charity 1175066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SVI

Provision of health, well being support including fitness exercise programmes, to undertake research and to produce information and reports in a range of alternative formats. To hold public events targeted towards visually impaired community and to raise awareness of visual impairment issues within the population. Development of information/training projects and resource base.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN SANDWELL, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, EDUCATION, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE INCREASED INDEPENDENCE AND LIFE OPPORTUNITIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £74,331, driven by a net income of £14,109 against total expenditure of £85,300. Unrestricted reserves stood at £19,987, while restricted funds held £54,344. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the financial statements.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• 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)

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 — Sandwell Visually Impaired (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sandwell Council — “Sandwell Council funding has enabled us to grow and develop. They provide: seconded staff – Development Officer and Business Support Officer…” (source page)
• Busking for Charity — “Busking for Charity – we are one of this year’s chosen charities and will receive their donation at the end of the 2026.” (source page)
• Vision 2030 Community Mental Health Grant — “Vision 2030 Community Mental Health Grant – this is paying for our Wonder in Nature programme where our members are taking part in local wal…” (source page)
• SCVO Vision 2030 Micro Grant — “SCVO Vision 2030 Micro Grant – to contribute towards a Sandwell Celebrates event which will include a performance by our SVI Rocks group.” (source page)
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — “Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Empowering People in Communities Fund This funding is to develop members’ skills in the management and running o…” (source page)
• Tipton Civic Society — “Tipton Tree of Lights – run by Tipton Civic Society helps us to support Sandwell Talking News, specifically for people in Tipton.” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “National Lottery Community Fund – This grant meant that we could continue to employ our Enablement Worker, Kelley, for a further period of 1…” (source page)
• Inclusive Communities Fund — “Inclusive Communities Fund – Thanks to this legacy from the Commonwealth Games we were able to provide a range of inclusive activities and e…” (source page)
• Music For All — “Music For All – Music For All gave us the bulk of the funding to run a series of music workshops, SVI Rocks, which culminated in a performan…” (source page)
• Thomas Pocklington Trust — “Thomas Pocklington Trust – for our Digital Empowerment Project which enabled us to commission a specialist IT consultant for 4 hours per wee…” (source page)
• Wates Family Enterprise Trust — “Wates Family Enterprise Trust – helped to fund our SocialEyes programme of day trips and adventure activities in 2023.” (source page)
• Creative Black Country — “Creative Black Country – for our Unseen Memories project which was a small photography and audio reminiscence project.” (source page)
• UK Shared Prosperity Fund — “UK Shared Prosperity Fund – for a Work to Wellbeing Project in partnership with the Beacon Centre to support blind and visually impaired res…” (source page)
• Better Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund — “Better Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund , part of Sandwell Council’s Healthy Sandwell – funded our Support, Empowerment and Experience (SEE)…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR TONY AVERISchair
• BRIAN GORMLEY
• Derek Fletcher
• Gavin Hughes
• KAREN AVERIS
• Kiran Patel
• Shafiq Ahmed

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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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 Support Worthing.

• Sight Support Worthing income £287k
• SOMERSET SIGHT LIMITED income £576k
• BARNET BOROUGH SIGHT IMPAIRED income £27k
• BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMENTIA FOR SANDWELL income £256k
• STANWELL EVENTS income £246k
• THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY income £410k

Side by side with its peers

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