THE BIRMINGHAM ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 516477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIB

The education and welfare of blind people or those people significantly handicapped by defective vision or threatened by blindness by securing the provision of assistance and support in the greater Birmingham area.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £38,885 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a deficit on investments and reduced grant distributions to associated charities. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,041,598, with £542,146 identified as free reserves available for distribution, while the governors maintain a designated investment reserve of £1,612,353 to support ongoing activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Geoffrey Oakley — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 ~44.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Roger Bullockchair
• Beverley Jessop
• Jane Edgerton
• Marc Barnaby Reeves
• Mark Jocelyn ABRAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Paul Draisey
• Richard Duncan PERCIVAL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard John Hindle

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• WARRINGTON VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE income £142k
• FOCUS BIRMINGHAM income £4.3m
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• Sight Support West of England income £978k
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITY, LIVERPOOL income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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