NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 236629 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NFBUK · also registered in Scotland as SC040134 (OSCR)

The federation, through its blind and partially sighted membership, seeks to promote a better quality of life for all visually impaired people through local activities at branch level and nationally through campaigning.

Objects

THROUGH REPRESENTATION AND CAMPAIGNING, THE FEDERATION STRIVES TO IMPROVE ASPECTS AND QUALITY OF DAILY LIFE FOR ALL BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, AND DEAF-BLIND PEOPLE AND THOSE WHOãS SIGHT IMPAIRMENT IS PART OF MULTI DISABILITY, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a head office deficit of above £55,000, which the Honorary General Treasurer described as unacceptable and unsustainable. The Trustees confirmed that internal controls are adequate and that the charity is managed by an elected Executive Council with unpaid voluntary officers.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Lever
• Douglas Gilroy
• Dr Devaki Sivasubramanian
• Elizabeth Ann Silver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jill Allen-King · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR A HODGSON
• MR K FARRELL

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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