CAMSIGHT

Registered charity 201640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAM SIGHT, THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND, THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED

CamSight supports people with low vision or blindness in Cambridgeshire, enhancing independence, wellbeing and inclusion. We offer home, phone and community-based support with concessions, benefits and grants, equipment and assistive technology, emotional support and counselling. We also run a network of peer support groups, provide volunteering opportunities, and facilitate accessible activities.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, to promote the general welfare of people who are blind or partially sighted in the region of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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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Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a reduced deficit of £144,497 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £256,146 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have fallen to £207,638, which is below the stated policy target of four to six months of operational costs. The charity notes that it is working on funding stability and income diversification to address this shortfall.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chater Allan LLP. 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS TAUBMAN REDMAYNEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amanda Mary Lyne
• David Alan Taylor
• Mohammad Jafar Mirza
• Prof Keziah Latham Prof
• RICHARD CHARLES WILLIAM NEWBERY
• SEAN PHILIP ROCK
• Simon William Smyth

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

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 4SIGHT VISION SUPPORT.

• 4SIGHT VISION SUPPORT income £407k
• STAFFORDSHIRE SIGHT LOSS ASSOCIATION income £119k
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k
• SOMERSET SIGHT LIMITED income £576k
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k
• SIGHT CYMRU income £543k

Side by side with its peers

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