NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

Registered charity 1198369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NAB

Improving the lives of visually impaired people in Northamptonshire. Activities include provision of Single Persons Accommodation, Talking Newspaper Service, Home Visiting Service, Mobile Sight Centre, Computer Training, Aids & Adaptations.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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 the charity reported a net expenditure of £526,722 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees note that the main risk is the ceasing of grant funding, which is the charity's main income source, but state that current free reserves provide time to seek alternative funding.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Northamptonshire Association For The Blind (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~17.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edwin Leonard Slinnchair
• Hafiz Anver Khandwala
• Kieron Rathe
• PAUL FARENDEN
• Peter Andrew Michael O'Malley
• SUSAN FRANCIS
• TRISTAN FRANCIS WALLACE MCMULLAN

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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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 THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £228k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CARERS income £4.4m
• HASTINGS AND ROTHER VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £1.1m
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k
• HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND income £535k
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE 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.