THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

Registered charity 702325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide grants, goods, services and advice to the visually impaired.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND AND THOSE SUBSTANTIALLY AND PERMANENTLY HANDICAPPED BY DEFECTIVE VISION, REGISTERED AS SUCH WITH THEIR APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITY AND RESIDING IN THE BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND AND THE SURROUNDING AREA REFERRED TO IN SCHEDULE ATTACHED TO MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND AND SURROUNDING AREA.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · 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 deficit of £49,467 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £163,777. The trustees note that the charity had net current liabilities of £64,162 and was dependent on the continuing support of creditors, though they are confident that contracted service income and grant funding will enable the charity to continue its operations.

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
• 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 12/03/2025, 40 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02433540

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “Projects funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. Thanks to the players” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RAFFLE, Frederick William — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• CROZIER, Michael Walter Thomas — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• CURTIS, Allen — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• GREGG, Susan Rosemary — director, appointed 15/01/2024on trustee list
• DUFFY, Shaun — director, appointed 15/01/2024on trustee list
• SCANLAN, Lynda Rontree — director, appointed 20/11/2013on trustee list
• CARLING, Peter — director, appointed 06/03/2013on trustee list
• GREGG, Susan Rosemary — secretary, appointed 27/02/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allen Curtis
• Frederick William Raffle
• LYNDA SCANLAN
• Michael Walter Thomas Crozier
• Peter Carling
• Susan Rosemary Gregg · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Durham · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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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
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR BLIND CHILDREN income £4.5m
• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE BLIND SOCIETY income £191k
• MERTON VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £442k
• WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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