The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Blind Veterans UK

Registered charity 216227 Registered since 1962

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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

5y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Education/training 9Amateur Sport 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.

Health and social care 14Professional services 5Tech and media 5

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£27.8m 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.

12.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 35.0 in 2021

400 from 564 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.blindveterans.org.uk
EmailSupporter.Services@blindveterans.org.uk
Phone03001112233
AddressBlind Veterans UK, 3 Queen Square, LONDON, WC1N 3AR

Finances

£27,769,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£27,525,000£33,062,000
2022£28,827,000£32,021,000
2023£37,952,000£34,978,000
2024£29,761,000£36,292,000
2025£27,769,000£42,040,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityAccommodation/housingAmateur Sport

Who

People With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

4.1 To provide for the medical or surgical treatment, re-education, training in one or more trade or trades, settlement and permanent welfare of:-4.1.1 Members or former members of the armed forces both men and women blinded from whatever cause whether or not connected in any way with service in the armed forces; 4.1.2 Other persons both men and women not being members or former members of the armed forces who are blinded in or as a consequence of any war or warlike operations in which the forces of the Crown may be at any time engaged or any service connected with or subsidiary to such war or warlike operations or by or as a consequence of enemy action in the course of any such war or warlike operations; and4.1.3 Other persons both men and women not being members or former members of the UK armed forces who are blinded in or as a consequence of any war or warlike operations or terrorist activity(all such persons being hereinafter referred to as ‘Beneficiaries’)and so that for the purposes of these Articles the word ‘blinded’ shall extend to all cases in which the sight has been so impaired that special care and training are required and all cases in which the sight is endangered so long as the cause of the danger continues. 4.2 To provide allowances or other assistance for any wife, widow, husband, widower, child or dependent of a Beneficiary who may be in need of assistance or any person who shall have kept house for or nursed or otherwise rendered exceptional service to or have been dependent upon a Beneficiary any may after the death of such Beneficiary be in need of assistance.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/04/1923AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/07/1935AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/06/1940AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/11/1948AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/03/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/11/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/03/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 27/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2016 as amended on 22 Mar 2022 as amended on 01 Jun 2022

Trustees (10)

10trustees
62median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Blind Veterans UK · 00189648 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 30/04/1923

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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