THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITY, LIVERPOOL

Registered charity 526090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, LIVERPOOL, THE SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND AT LIVERPOOL, WAVERTREE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND

The charity provides education & care of the highest quality for multiple disabled, visually impaired young people aged 2-19plus. The School offers educational placements for children with visual impairments and complex needs for both day and residential children. Rushton Futures offers a structured day service for young adults with visual impairments and can be described as having complex needs

Objects

THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND.

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: Education/training · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £232,623 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £17,497,929. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy targeting one year's normal expenditure, with unrestricted general reserves of £9,557,059 and designated funds of £6,000,000 held for a future building project. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2024 (received 03/07/2025, 3 days after the 30/06/2025 due date); year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

• HeadLines: Joe Byrne, headmaster at the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool liverpoolecho.co.uk · 13/07/2009

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. D. Withey — Chair of Governors (source)
• Vicki Dwyer — Head of School (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLAN PERRY
• BRIAN LAWLOR LL.B
• COLONEL MARTIN GRAHAM CLIVE AMLOT OBE, DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr SANDRA LESLEY WINCHESTER
• GRAHAM SINDEN
• John Hussey · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARILYN MACCOSS
• SUSAN ISABEL GEORGE LL.B. M.PH

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR BLIND CHILDREN.

• THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR BLIND CHILDREN income £4.5m
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND income £36.5m
• THE SHEFFIELD ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• Royal Deaf Education Trust income £9.0m
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k
• ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF DERBY income £5.6m

Side by side with its peers

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