Bridgend Visual Impairment Society

BridgeVIS provides information, advice and services to blind and partially sighted people in the Bridgend borough. It also advices and represents this group of people on statutory, public and private organisations.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: The Local Authority Administrative Area of Bridgend As Defined in the Local Government (wales) Act 1994

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £5,948 and spent £2,230.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 80%, from £3,312 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £5,948 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 37% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £5,000, awarded in 2009.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Geraldine Mary KeeepingsAppointed 6 March 2026
• Malcolm John NicholasAppointed 9 April 2021
• Sharon BeattyAppointed 6 March 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1096967

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 April 2003

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 12 NOVEMBER 2002

Website

www.bridgevis.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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