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Registered charity · Wolverhampton

Beacon Centre for the Blind

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 5 more
Where
Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
Website
www.beaconvision.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Beacon Centre for the Blind
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£3.2m
  • 2024£2.6m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.6m
  • 2021£2.3m£2.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 34% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES OTHER THAN BLINDNESS OR DEFECTIVE VISION AND WHO ARE RESIDENT FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON, THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY, THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL OR THE COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE OR SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.

Grants received

16 grants · £1,305,337 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £971,918 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £127,510
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £111,242
  • Fight for Sight · £51,394 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £23,273 (3 grants)

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.7y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
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 10

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 11Retail and trade 4Arts 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£2.7m 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.

8.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 17.7 in 2021

89 from 118 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.
38%
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
216092
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 DECEMBER 1961 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF 17 DECEMBER 1963 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 1 APRIL 1991, 8 APRIL 1997 AND 23 MARCH 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 FEB 2017 as amended on 09 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 00710129 · Active
Contact on the register
01902 880111 · enquiries@beaconvision.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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