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Registered charity · Birmingham

British and Irish Orthoptic Society

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £773k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.orthoptics.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British and Irish Orthoptic Society
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£773k£659k
  • 2023£357k£460k
  • 2022£493k£527k
Earlier years
  • 2021£718k£392k
  • 2020£390k£267k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 35%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ORTHOPTICS AND COGNATE SUBJECTS AND TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND IMPROVE THE PRACTICE OF ORTHOPTICS WITH A VIEW TO MAINTAINING AND RAISING STANDARDS IN CLINICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ORTHOPTICS

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

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Disability 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.

Other services 8

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£773k 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.3 in 2020

3
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
326905
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 MARCH 1985 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 14 MARCH 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/12/2014 AS AMENDED ON 09 SEP 2016 AS AMENDED ON 26 JUN 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 MAY 2019
Companies House
Company number 01892427 · Active
Contact on the register
01217285633 · bios@orthoptics.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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