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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind

The Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind is a registered charity (number 516477) based in Birmingham, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Matthew Roger Bullock since 2023. Latest income £1.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Brib (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.brib.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£903k£833k
  • 2021£881k£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF, AND TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS OF THE BLIND (SUCH TERM INCLUDING PERSONS WHO THOUGH NOT TOTALLY BLIND ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HANDICAPPED BY DEFECTIVE VISIONOR ARE THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS), EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, BY SECURING THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO THE BLIND IN THE COMMUNITY AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROMTIME TO TIME DETERMINE; TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS; TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS; AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

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.

7 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 7Education/training 2

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 9Education 6Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£1.0m 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.

44.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.5 in 2021

0
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
516477
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/03/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/09/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/11/2013
Companies House
Company number 01900123 · Active
Contact on the register
0121 393 4849 · brib@focusbirmingham.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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