Registered charity · Essex
Blind in Business Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £342k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is Blind in Business Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.blindinbusiness.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1992
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£342k£306k
- 2024£399k£335k
- 2023£251k£295k
Earlier years
- 2022£220k£256k
- 2021£230k£262k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF AND EDUCATION OF THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED BY IMPROVING AND ASSISTING IN AND BY THE USE AND APPLICATION OF ADAPTED OR SPECIALIST COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY OR TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT
Grants received
47 grants · £1,096,936 total360Giving 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
- City Bridge Trust · £423,075 (4 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £216,630 (21 grants)
- Fight for Sight · £165,000 (7 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £155,000 (5 grants)
- John Ellerman Foundation · £81,000
Most recent
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
- Jane Cathrall Chair since 2021
- Alex Hannigan-Train since 2024
- Daniel Charles Hartland since 2023
- Daniel Smith since 2018
- Robert Keller since 2019
- Rupert Timothy Marks since 2023
- Steve Norton
Trustees past 6 years
- Daniel Smith since 2018
- Robert Keller since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Jane Cathrall Chair since 2021
- Alex Hannigan-Train since 2024
- Daniel Charles Hartland since 2023
- Daniel Smith since 2018
- Robert Keller since 2019
- Rupert Timothy Marks since 2023
- Steve Norton
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1011957
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DEED OF SETTLEMENT DATED 1ST JUNE 1992 as amended on 21 Sep 2022
- Contact on the register
- 02075881885 · info@blindinbusiness.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data