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Registered charity · Lichfield

Visably

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £758k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.visably.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Visably
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£758k£1.5m
  • 2024£872k£1.6m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.5m
Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH SIGHT LOSS IN THE UK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, AND COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVES TO HELP ALLEVIATE ASSOCIATED ISOLATION AND LONELINESS THAT RESULTS FROM THAT SIGHT LOSS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

2y median 0y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Other Charitable Purposes 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

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

Other services 10Arts and leisure 5Tech and media 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£758k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 34.8 in 2021

10 from 13 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
1078287
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/10/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/02/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/04/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/09/2015 AS AMENDED ON 21 JUL 2026AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 SEP 2026
Companies House
Company number 03870182 · Active
Contact on the register
01622754757 · hello@visably.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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