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Registered charity · Cardiff

The Cardiff Institute for the Blind, Incorporated

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £622k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot and more
Website
www.sightlife.wales (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cardiff Institute for the Blind,(Incorporated)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£622k£636k
  • 2024£561k£568k
  • 2023£475k£538k
Earlier years
  • 2022£435k£400k
  • 2021£421k£376k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 21% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL WELFARE OF BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, SEVERELY DISABLED SIGHTED AND HANDICAPPED SIGHTED PERSONS.

Grants received

14 grants · £1,611,899 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

5.4y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 6Education/training 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Tech and media 7Dormant 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£622k 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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.2 in 2021

14 from 13 in 2024
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.
33%
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
214131
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION AS REVISED 19/12/1955 AND 22/10/1990 AND SCHEME OF 26/10/56 AS AMENDED 1 OCTOBER 2013 as amended on 01 Apr 2022
Companies House
Company number 00149982 · Active
Contact on the register
029 2039 8900 · ask@sightlife.wales
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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