THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE

Registered charity 226227 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RNIB, THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE BLIND · also registered in Scotland as SC039316 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that RNIB delivered a net operating surplus of £0.5m after transformation costs, with free reserves of £57.4m standing above the approved target range of £42.6m to £53.9m. Per the trustees' report, liquidity was £39.6m, and the charity confirmed there is no material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RNIB - Royal National Institute of Blind People (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Andrew Barry
• Andrew McCracken
• Anna Tylor
• Anouschka Elliott
• Barry Hoffman
• Deborah Womack
• Elizabeth Ann Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Elliott
• Sir James Alan Harra
• Tanya Catherine Castell MBE
• Zayna Ali

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £14.2m
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k
• BLIND VETERANS UK income £27.8m
• BLINDAID income £408k
• THE BIRMINGHAM ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND income £1.0m
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k