THE BENEVOLENT FUND OF THE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRISTS & THE ASSOCIATION OF OPTOMETRISTS

Registered charity 1216007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OPTICAL BENEVOLENT FUND

support of optometrists, past and present, and their dependents

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO AFFORD ASSISTANCE BY APPLICATION OF THE INCOME OF THE FUND AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL OR ANY:3.1.1 NECESSITOUS MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS (OF ANY CLASS) OF THE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRISTS (OR FORMERLY OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRISTS OR THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMIC OPTICIANS) AND THEIR DEPENDANTS;3.1.2 FORMER MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH OPTICAL ASSOCIATION AND THEIR DEPENDANTS;3.1.3 MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OPTOMETRISTS (OR FORMERLY THE ASSOCIATION OF OPTICAL PRACTITIONERS) AND THEIR DEPENDANTS;3.1.4 FELLOWS BY EXAMINATION OF THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS OR THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF SPECTACLE MAKERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS; OR3.1.5 OTHER MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE OPTOMETRY PROFESSION, OR OPHTHALMIC OPTICAL PROFESSION AS IT WAS FORMERLY KNOWN, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS;3.1.6 UNDERGRADUATE OPTOMETRY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH THE GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL3.1.7 OTHER OPTOMETRY STUDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT TO SUPPORT

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Aishah Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison McClune · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anuj Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Ehrlich · trustee of 1 other charity
• Francesca Marchetti · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Anne Eyre
• Keval Dattani · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Broughton
• Tushar Majithia · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vivian Bush · trustee of 1 other charity

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Operates in: Throughout England