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Registered charity · Leicester

The Royal Leicestershire Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3.9m (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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Leicestershire, Leicester City, Rutland
Website
www.vistablind.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Leicestershire, Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.9m£5.8m
  • 2024£7.8m£9.0m
  • 2023£7.9m£9.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.4m£8.4m
  • 2021£7.4m£8.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO: 1. PROVIDE RELIEF AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN NEED, WHETHER BY YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE AFFECTED BY SIGHT LOSS (INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED AND PEOPLE WITH DUAL SENSORY LOSS (?DEAFBLIND?) AND PRIMARILY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) TO THOSE PEOPLE LIVING IN LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND; 2. ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT EYE HEALTH AND SIGHT LOSS; AND 3. PREVENT AVOIDABLE SIGHT LOSS.

Grants received

28 grants · £8,142,737 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.

8 trustees on the board

2.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 8Other services 2Education 1

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£3.9m 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: 3.9 months · was 1.1 in 2021

157 from 312 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
218992
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/01/1920AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/06/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/07/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/02/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/04/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/03/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/04/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29/10/2014
Companies House
Company number 00163099 · Active
Contact on the register
0116 249 8839 · info@vistablind.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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