ACTION FOR BLIND PEOPLE

Registered charity 205913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4677194 · Wikipedia · also known as LONDON ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, SURREY ASSOCIATION FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE BLIND · also registered in Scotland as SC040050 (OSCR)

Action for Blind People support blind and partially sighted people in the United Kingdom. This can mean helping them to find or keep a job, deal with housing issues, helping them to go on holiday, providing sports clubs for visually impaired children, and other services for visually impaired children and their families or providing vital information in the heart of communities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BETTER EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE, AND GENERALLY TO WATCH OVER AND PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND TO PREVENT BLINDNESS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Action for Blind People is a non-operational entity that receives donations and legacies which are subsequently gifted to its parent charity, RNIB. The charity holds no free/unrestricted reserves, as its policy is to have no need for reserves given its role in raising income for transfer. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Jobs at risk as Action for Blind People merges with RNIB civilsociety.co.uk · 04/04/2017
• RNIB plans to transfer 438 staff to Action for Blind People thirdsector.co.uk · 17/06/2015
• Artist Joanna Brendon presents painting to Action for Blind People retiring chief executive Stephen Remington dorsetecho.co.uk · 24/04/2014
• Sam, 7, takes part in Action for Blind People athletics event thenorthernecho.co.uk · 23/09/2013
• Action for Blind People holds Lords event opticianonline.net · 20/03/2013

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (29/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA MARGARET TYLOR
• Mary Elizabeth Elliott
• Sir James Alan Harra

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE.

• THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE income £95.9m
• BLIND CHILDREN UK income £328k
• BECOMING VISIBLE LIMITED income £493k
• BRITISH BLIND SPORT income £526k
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND income £36.5m
• ACTION CEREBRAL PALSY income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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