THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 202573 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUNTINGDONSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND, HUNTS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND, THE HUNTINGDON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

Provides a range of services, support and social activities for visually impaired people living throughout Huntingdonshire including information and advice, assistance with completing benefits applications and an equipment centre.

Objects

GENERAL BENEFIT OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS.

Area of benefit: HUNTINGDONSHIRE DISTRICT: COUNTY COUNCIL OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds stood at £2,298,419, with net current assets of £195,571 and no creditors falling due after one year. The trustees and independent auditor have confirmed the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Staff costs were £147,074, and the charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed pension deficit.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Quinn Statutory Auditors. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 — Hunts Blind (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Belinda Yare
• Darren Fletcher
• Declan William Flanagan Mr
• Elaine Fiona Corden
• Elizabeth Grace Harrison
• Ellie Jessica Davis
• Fiona Antonia Tarpey
• Jill Brocklebank
• John Paul Kidd
• Nicholas John Ruston

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HENSHAWS SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE.

• HENSHAWS SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE income £11.4m
• HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF THE BLIND income £535k
• DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD income £732k
• HASTINGS AND ROTHER VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £1.1m
• THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• VISION SUPPORT HARROGATE DISTRICT income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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