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Registered charity · Derby

Derbyshire Association of the Blind LTD

5. ObjectsThe objects (“Objects”) of the Company are the following:For the public benefit to:(a) Provide relief and support to people of all ages in need, whether by youth, age, ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage and in particular...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £732k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Derbyshire
Website
www.sightsupportderbyshire.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Derbyshire Association of the Blind LTD
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£732k£622k
  • 2024£579k£562k
  • 2023£578k£576k
Earlier years
  • 2022£671k£569k
  • 2021£595k£543k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 32%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

5. ObjectsThe objects (“Objects”) of the Company are the following:For the public benefit to:(a) Provide relief and support to people of all ages in need, whether by youth, age, ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage and in particular those affected by sight loss (including people who are blind or partially sighted and people with dual sensory loss (deaf blind) and primarily (but not exclusively) to those people living in Derby and Derbyshire.(b) Advance education and promote understanding about eye health and sight loss; and(c) Prevent avoidable sight loss.

Grants received

19 grants · £1,048,154 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.

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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.

8 trustees on the board

4.4y median 1y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 7Business services 1

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£732k 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.

16.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 14.5 in 2021

21 from 24 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
1080986
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/09/2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 18/11/2010 as amended on 01 Jul 2019
Companies House
Company number 03920526 · Active
Contact on the register
01332 292262 · enquiries@sightsupportderbyshire.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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