SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE BLIND SOCIETY

Registered charity 1182486 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity promotes the welfare and health support of visually impaired people, deaf blind, people with hearing loss, mental health, dementia and general disabilities, and their carers

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS AND CARERS RESIDENT IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS OF BOSTON, SOUTH HOLLAND, NORTH KESTEVEN, SOUTH KESTEVEN, THE COUNTY OF LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITITION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NPRTHERN IRELAND) 2008]

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 total income was £191,385 and total spending was £237,323 for the financial period ending 31 March 2025, resulting in a deficit. The document does not disclose any specific reserves policy or current unrestricted reserves figure.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls 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

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.

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 21/02/2024, 21 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Lincolnshire Blind Society (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN DUST
• Carolyn Dewhirst
• Christopher Michael Oakes
• Janet Watson
• Robert William Dixon

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 LINCOLN & LINDSEY BLIND SOCIETY.

• LINCOLN & LINDSEY BLIND SOCIETY income £423k
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• BLACKBURN AND DISTRICT BLIND SOCIETY income £27k
• HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND income £535k
• ESSEX BLIND CHARITY income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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