British Blind Sport

Analysis

British Blind Sport is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Warwickshire. It was registered in July 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 10009918). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, British Blind Sport reported income of £526k and spending of £475k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to March 2025, income grew from £320k to £526k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 145%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, British Blind Sport sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hwb Torfaen (£526k), Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary Limited (£527k) and The Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation (£526k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 55% and donations and legacies 44%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 3.9%. Reserves of £310k would cover about 8 months of spending at that rate. It employed 9 people.