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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Metro Sports and Social Club of Vision Impaired People

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £223k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Disability, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.metroblindsport.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£223k£161k
  • 2024£165k£192k
  • 2023£130k£198k
Earlier years
  • 2022£195k£228k
  • 2021£272k£169k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO RELIEVE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE, PRIMARILY RESIDENT IN GREATER LONDON, WHO ARE IN NEED, BY PROVIDING, OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, RECREATIONAL ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT, THE CIO TRUSTEE POWERS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:(1) TO PROVIDE VISION IMPAIRED PEOPLE WITH AS WIDE A RANGE OF FULFILLING SPORT AS POSSIBLE. 2) TO PROVIDE A VARIETY OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS. (3) TO PROVIDE THE MEANS - THROUGH SPORTING AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - OF MIXING WITH SIGHTED INDIVIDUALS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING AND THE INTEGRATION OF VISION IMPAIRED PEOPLE INTO THE COMMUNITY. (4) TO PROVIDE, WHERE POSSIBLE, SOME FORM OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ITS MEMBERS TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOMETIMES COSTLY EVENTS. (5) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER LAWFUL THINGS AS SHALL FURTHER THE ABOVE OBJECT.

Grants received

20 grants · £457,698 total

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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

4.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Amateur Sport 7Recreation 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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.

Arts and leisure 1Education 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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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£223k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1158098
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 04 Aug 2014
Contact on the register
07837721648 · info@metroblindsport.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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