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Registered charity · London

Action for Blind People

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £5.9m (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, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Action for Blind People
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.9m£5.9m
  • 2024£5.9m£5.9m
  • 2023£3.3m£3.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.0m£7.0m
  • 2021£5.7m£5.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE BETTER EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE, AND GENERALLY TO WATCH OVER AND PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND TO PREVENT BLINDNESS

Grants received

41 grants · £4,284,701 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.

4 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 4Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4

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 8Arts and leisure 4Manufacturing 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£5.9m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

0
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
205913
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/05/1888AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/08/1910AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1953AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/09/1992AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/04/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/05/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/04/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25/06/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 APR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 FEB 2017
Companies House
Company number 00026688 · Active
Contact on the register
0303 123 9999 · helpline@rnib.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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