Sight Cymru

Services to mitigate the impacts of sensory loss to people in Wales, including Eye Clinic support and Rehabilitation for the Vision Impaired, counselling, emotional support, befriending, activities, telephone helpline, social activities, training and a comprehensive resource centre offering advice, information and advocacy. The charity also encourages preventative strategies to avoid blindness

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £558,453 and spent £587,933.

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 8%, from £518,073 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £558,453 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

74% of its income in the year to 31 March 2023 came from government grants and contracts (£411,038).

Largest funder

The National Lottery Community Fund gave £79,226 in the year to 31 March 2025, 14% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: £392,895 from 7 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 10 funders who gave £485,321 between them. £484,621 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 6 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £155,300.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 29 payments to this charity worth £438,238 between 6 December 2021 and 20 July 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 11 May 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 11 May 2026, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Disability Friendly Strategy

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 5 March 2026, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Council

  Budget Proposals 2026- 2027

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 5 March 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Declarations of Interest

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• 23 February 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

  Read the meeting record

• 23 February 2026, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Corporate Overview

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 19 January 2026, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Disabled Facilities Adaptations

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 19 January 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 19 January 2026, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Migrant Worker Charter

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 17 November 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 17 November 2025, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Winter planning and update on support for those with NRPF

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 15 September 2025, Cardiff

  Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 15 September 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 6 March 2025, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Council

  Budget Proposals 2025 - 2026

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 6 March 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Declarations of Interest

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• 15 July 2024, Cardiff

  Bablin Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Adults, Housing & Communities Directorate Delivery Plan 2024/25

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 15 July 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 29 January 2024, Vale of Glamorgan

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Voluntary Sector Joint Liaison Committee

  Social Services and Third Sector – Iain McMillan, Head of Resource Management and Safeguarding. [View Presentation]

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• 2 May 2023, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Planning Committee

  Application DM/2022/01800 - Erection of a single span single arch curved bridge across the River Wye including landscaping on the east and west bank and public realm improvements. Land north of Wye Bridge, Monmouth

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• 9 March 2023, Cardiff

  Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Council

  Budget Proposals 2023 - 2024

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 9 March 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Declarations of Interest

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• 9 March 2023, Cardiff

  Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Council

  Cardiff Council's Corporate Plan 2023- 2026

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 27 February 2023, Cardiff

  Molik declared an interest that names the charity, at Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 27 February 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Declarations of Interest

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• 17 March 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Declarations of Interest

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Showing the 25 most recent of 28 mentions.

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 8 March 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DM for SS

  Purpose: Sight Cymru.

  Sight Cymru

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Rhoda WilliamsChairAppointed 3 July 2018
• Aji Ramanujam RaghuramAppointed 21 September 2023
• Helen TudballAppointed 7 October 2024
• Hilary Margaret LesterAppointed 15 September 2026
• Himalee RupesingheAppointed 21 September 2023
• John Richard James BeavanAppointed 26 July 2019
• Jonathan MuddAppointed 1 April 2021
• Matthew ThomasAppointed 30 May 2022
• Prof Rachel NorthAppointed 21 September 2023
• Susan Margaret HughesAppointed 30 May 2022

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, 4 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

1171471

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 February 2017

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 14/10/1976AS AMENDED ON 04/03/1982AS AMENDED ON 14/07/2009AS AMENDED ON 10/07/2012AS AMENDED ON 21/11/2015 as amended on 13 Sep 2017

Website

sightcymru.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen