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Registered charity · London

The Royal National Institute of Blind People

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £96m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 3 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man
Website
www.rnib.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£96m£95m
  • 2024£90m£91m
  • 2023£107m£87m
Earlier years
  • 2022£86m£77m
  • 2021£86m£79m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE BETTER EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND GENERALLY TO WATCH OVER AND PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE AND TO PREVENT BLINDNESS.

Grants received

102 grants · £31,855,216 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 · £17,995,258 (48 grants)
  • Postcode Care Trust · £9,350,000 (4 grants)
  • Sport England · £974,802
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £923,436 (6 grants)
  • HM Revenue & Customs · £839,679 (8 grants)

Most recent

  • LUND TRUST £88,7002026-03-11
  • SHAREGIFT £7,5002026-03-10
  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002025-12-15
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002025-08-20
  • Postcode Care Trust £2,500,0002025-02-13
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.5y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11Education/training 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11

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 3Arts and leisure 1Education 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£95.9m 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.

6.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

1286 from 1412 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.
7%
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
226227
Status
Registered
Governing document
GRANTED 14/04/1949AS AMENDED ON 18/04/1963AS AMENDED ON 31/03/1993AS AMENDED ON 08/11/1993AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 12/02/2002AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 30/05/2003AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 14/02/2006AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 14/11/2007AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 21/07/2010AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 20/04/2011AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 01/07/2014AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 01 APR 2017AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 18 AUG 2020AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 16 FEB 2022
Companies House
Company number RC000500 · Active
Contact on the register
0303 123 9999 · helpline@rnib.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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