BLINDAID — grant history

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Latest income

£568k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£10k

Accounts grants total

£57k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: BlindAid does not accept unsolicited applications from individuals. Grants must be applied for on behalf of the recipient by an employee of a statutory organisation or registered charity, with completed forms emailed to [email protected].

Summarised from www.blindaid.org.uk · blindaid.org.uk/our-services/grants/ · blindaid.org.uk/who-we-are/funders/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Disability (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Lambeth (1 grantee)
Southwark (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Blackfriars Settlement Charity	—	£4k
new	Feeling The Noise	—	£4k
new	BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT	—	£2k
not listed	Blackfriars Settlement Southwark	£6k	—
not listed	Lewisham Talking News	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Blackfriars Settlement Charity	FY2025	£4k	Older Age Group Leader outreach/Christmas lunch
Feeling The Noise	FY2025	£4k	Purchase of two new instruments
Blackfriars Settlement	FY2025	£2k	Crusoe Club at Blackfriars
Blackfriars Settlement Southwark	FY2024	£6k	£2,000 for the Crusoe Club for SI and SSI residents of Southwark, and £4,000 for Blackfriars Older Persons Services
Lewisham Talking News	FY2024	£2k	for new equipment and USB memory sticks for continued distribution of the news
Blackfriars Settlement Southwark	FY2023	£3k	Grants made to small Charities
Lewisham Talking News	FY2023	£2k	Grants made to small Charities
Islington Talking News	FY2023	£2k	Grants made to small Charities
Individual beneficiaries	FY2022	£31k	114 individual grants for aids and equipment (e.g. talking aids, microwaves, talking scales) and costs for sending out large print calendars and Christmas cards
Blackfriars Settlement	FY2022	£3k	Small grants to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people
The VIP Singers	FY2022	£2k	Small grants to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people
Lewisham Talking News	FY2022	£2k	Small grants to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people
Blackfriars Settlement	FY2021	£2k	Small awards to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people
Lewisham Talking News	FY2021	£2k	Small awards to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people (paid in early 2022 from 2021 funding)
The VIP Singers	FY2021	£2k	Small awards to local organisations to help fund other social activities for visually impaired people (paid in early 2022 from 2021 funding)

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 9650 vs reference 57208 (83.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].