SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 1196972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHAMPTON SIGHT

Southampton Sight supports people with sight loss or at risk of sight loss to remainindependent. We do this by delivering services that support people to have greater independence, experience reduced isolation, achieve their own individual goals and to have greater access to sight loss resources.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS IN SOUTHAMPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THEIR NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS

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

Causes: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £69,132, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £363,053 to £293,921. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, citing stable financial status due to prudent management and diverse funding sources.

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 5 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Lieke Dorine Van Puttenchair
• Abigail Victoria Dowling
• David Marson
• Dr Stephen Mark Boswell
• Hannah Chivers
• Rev Benjamin Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• THOMAS KENNETH MCINULTY

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Southend in Sight.

• Southend in Sight income £337k
• STAFFORDSHIRE SIGHT LOSS ASSOCIATION income £119k
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k
• DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE BLIND SOCIETY income £191k
• THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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