BLIND AND SIGHT IMPAIRED SOCIETY (BASIS)

Registered charity 1188583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BASIS provides emotional and practical support to visually impaired people in South Essex. We do this through equipment demonstration at our Resource Centre, home visit assessments, befriending services, social activity groups and providing support at the local eye clinic.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025 were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, as determined by the trustees under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011. The independent examiner reported that no material matters came to their attention regarding the keeping of accounting records or compliance with the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BASIS (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• June Maylinchair
• Alastair Rogers
• Cliff Carter
• Stephen Foggo
• TRACY WHITT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).