THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY

Registered charity 254052 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as P S S, PSS, THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY LIMITED, THE SOCIETY FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED LIMITED, THE SOCIETY FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED LTD

Helping people with a visual impairment to make the best possible use of their remaining sight.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL HEALTH IN THE UK WHO HAVE SIGHT IMPAIRMENT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING AND PROMOTING SERVICES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH SIGHT IMPAIRMENT; B) EDUCATING AND TRAINING PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTACT WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE SIGHT IMPAIRED; AND C) INITIATING, PROMOTING AND UNDERTAKING RESEARCH IN THE WELFARE AND EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH SIGHT IMPAIRMENT AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £1,652,904, which the trustees consider to be in excess of their reserves policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reports a healthy financial position with total incoming resources of £410,089 against resources expended of £414,486, resulting in a small net outgoing for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Partially Sighted Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~55.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Binkschair
• Catherine Veronica Kemp
• Peter Moore
• Robyn Leigh Mackay
• Sarah Whyld
• Tosh Vadhia

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sight Support West of England.

• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k
• THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• HENSHAWS SOCIETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE income £11.4m

Side by side with its peers

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