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Registered charity · London

International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

  • 27 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
South Africa, Throughout London
Website
www.iapb.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.0m£3.4m
  • 2023£3.1m£3.4m
  • 2022£3.0m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£2.3m
  • 2020£2.2m£4.2m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 2.1 THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR DISABLED; AND 2.2 THE PREVENTION OF SIGHT LOSS AND BLINDNESS.

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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.

27 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (26)

Portfolio (1)

19
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 27The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 27The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 27

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

Health and social care 22Property 2Retail and trade 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.0m latest income
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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.4 in 2020

32 from 19 in 2020
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
1100559
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 DECEMBER 2002 AS AMENDED 20 AUGUST 2004 AND 21 SEPTEMBER 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17 NOV 2016 as amended on 15 May 2025
Companies House
Company number 04620869 · Active
Contact on the register
020 39508778 · centralsupport@iapb.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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