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Registered charity · Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind

Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind is a registered charity (number 1007270) based in Merthyr Tydfil, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Gareth William Meredith. Latest income £2.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Mtib (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.mtib.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.2m£2.0m
  • 2023£2.0m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED OR WHO OTHERWISE SUFFER FROM DEFECTIVE VISION AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF MID GLAMORGAN.

Grants received

4 grants · £150,759 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Work and Pensions · £150,759 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Work and Pensions £13,5952018-04-01
  • Department for Work and Pensions £36,9862018-04-01
  • Department for Work and Pensions £49,6482017-04-01
  • Department for Work and Pensions £50,5302017-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

7 trustees on the board

7.2y median 10y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 7Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Manufacturing 7Business services 2Education 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

14.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

44 from 66 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1007270
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 OCTOBER 1991, AMENDED 29 SEPTEMBER 1994 AND 24 APRIL 2002
Companies House
Company number 02659355 · Active
Contact on the register
01685370072 · info@mtib.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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