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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SOUTH ESSEX BY WORKING WITH BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 11 WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR DISABILITY, PREVENTING THEM FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING A LOCAL NETWORK GROUP THAT ENCOURAGES AND ENABLES MEMBERS OF THE BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THEIR PEERS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY BY IMPROVING CONFIDENCE AND TACKLING SOCIAL ISOLATION AND LONELINESS;B) INCREASING, OR COORDINATING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS OF THE BLIND/ VISUALLY IMPAIRED COMMUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, ENABLING THOSE PROVIDERS TO ADAPT THEIR SERVICES TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF THE BLIND/ VISUALLY IMPAIRED COMMUNITY;C) DEVELOPING INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO ENABLE THE PARENTS/CARERS OF BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN AND MAXIMISE THEIR POTENTIAL;D) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE, BOTH GENERALLY AND IN RELATION TO THEIR SOCIAL EXCLUSION WITH THE AIM OF EDUCATING THE SIGHTED COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS BETWEEN THE TWO COMMUNITIES.2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN SOUTH ESSEX, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING A BEFRIENDING SERVICE TO BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADULTS OFFERING HOME VISITS, COMPANIONSHIP, TELEPHONE BEFRIENDING AND SIGHT GUIDING ON EVERYDAY TASKS.B) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, OUTINGS, SOCIAL TRIPS AND OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF A TRANSPORT SERVICE TO AND FROM RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES.C) PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND GENERAL SUPPORT IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND ALL ASPECTS OF LIVING WITH SIGHT LOSS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 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.

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
• Paying staff
• 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

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY.

• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k
• VISION ENHANCEMENT SERVICES income £5.8m
• BLINDAID income £408k
• HASTINGS AND ROTHER VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £1.1m
• TEESSIDE AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £161k
• HENSHAWS SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE income £11.4m

Side by side with its peers

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