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Registered charity (CIO) · Wiltshire

Sight Support West of England

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £978k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Disability
Where
Wiltshire, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City and more
Website
www.sightsupportwest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£978k£1.0m
  • 2024£873k£932k
  • 2023£700k£694k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£586k
  • 2021£525k£471k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO ISTO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE WITH AND AT RISK OF SIGHT LOSS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO HELP IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE AND TO INCREASE THEIR INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENCE AND BY DEVELOPING AN INCREASED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PREVENTION AND ALLEVIATION OF SIGHT LOSS. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008].

Grants received

13 grants · £450,595 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

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.

7 trustees on the board

5.1y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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 7General Charitable Purposes 7

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 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£978k 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.8 in 2021

29 from 14 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.
10%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1178384
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 15 MAY 2018AMENDED ON 04 JUN 2018 as amended on 02 Oct 2020 as amended on 09 Oct 2020
Contact on the register
01173224885 · info@sightsupportwest.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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