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Light for the Blind

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1085698KeighleyHealth and saving lives
Income£57k2025-08-30
Spending£14ksame year
Spent / received32%5-year average
Size in its cause54th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2001Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Light for the Blind is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Keighley. It was registered in March 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Light for the Blind reported income of £57k and spending of £14k, leaving 74% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £74k to £57k (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 32% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Light for the Blind sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Convent of the Sisters of Charity - Servants of the Poor (£57k), The Association for Clinical Genomic Science (£57k) and Staffordshire Search and Rescue Team (£57k).

Income and spending

£0£34k£68k£102k£136k2021 Income: £74,3302021 Spending: £4,28920212022 Income: £89,7142022 Spending: £4,10020222023 Income: £136,1172023 Spending: £114,32920232024 Income: £81,6572024 Spending: £3,71820242025 Income: £56,5552025 Spending: £14,4772025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

1)THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND IN PARTICULAR BLINDNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HOSPITALS AND CLINICS AND OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES IN PARTICULAR IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT2)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION 3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY4) FOR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER APPROPRIATE

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