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Registered charity · London

Fight for Sight

1. For the public benefit to relieve people in need by reason of blindness or visual impairment and advancing education and health in all areas relating to blindness and sight loss, in particular, but not limited to, providing grants. 2. Carrying...

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £7.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.fightforsight.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Fight for Sight
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.4m£10m
  • 2024£12m£8.2m
  • 2023£4.8m£4.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.5m£3.9m
  • 2021£6.4m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. For the public benefit to relieve people in need by reason of blindness or visual impairment and advancing education and health in all areas relating to blindness and sight loss, in particular, but not limited to, providing grants. 2. Carrying out research into and making grants for the purpose of research into and promoting by all available means the study of disease in relation to the eye and allied subjects and generally improving the standard of knowledge of the means of prevention, diagnosis and methods of treatment and cure thereof. 3. Doing all other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects and are considered to be charitable within the laws of England and Wales.”

Grants received

5 grants · £430,000 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

Most recent

Grants given

152 grants · £3,793,046 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 recipients

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.1y median 1.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9Disability 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.

Health and social care 15Professional services 3Arts and leisure 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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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£7.4m 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.

9.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 12.7 in 2021

87
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
1111438
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/08/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/08/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12/09/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2014 as amended on 17 Apr 2023 as amended on 29 Jan 2025
Companies House
Company number 05525503 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7620 2066 · info@fightforsight.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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