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Sight Support Hull and East Yorkshire

Sight Support Hull and East Yorkshire is a registered charity (number 223668) based in Hull, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Deborah Jane Rosenberg since 2013. Latest income £666k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as H E R I B (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £666k (2025)

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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, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Kingston Upon Hull City, East Riding Of Yorkshire
Website
www.sightsupport.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sight Support Hull and East Yorkshire
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£666k£792k
  • 2024£810k£747k
  • 2023£452k£687k
Earlier years
  • 2022£537k£666k
  • 2021£480k£671k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE BLIND, PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO THE BLIND RESIDENTS IN THE KINGSTON UPON HULL AND THE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.

Grants received

10 grants · £340,639 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 · £222,410 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £67,613
  • Two Ridings Community Foundation · £39,518 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £9,600
  • Department for Transport · £1,498 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £110,0512023-02-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-10-14
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-02-05
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £67,6132020-07-29
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.

12 trustees on the board

9.9y median 11.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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.

Accommodation/housing 12Disability 12General Charitable Purposes 12

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 12Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£666k 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.

29.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 45.3 in 2021

22 from 25 in 2022
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
223668
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/04/1935AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/03/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/03/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05/07/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 APR 2018 as amended on 24 Sep 2019
Companies House
Company number 00299291 · Active
Contact on the register
01482342297 · info@sightsupport.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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