The Cardiff Institute for the Blind, Incorporated

The Institute primarily exists to enable visually impaired people within the counties of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Taff, Merthyr, Swansea and Neath and Port Talbot to live a full and independent life. It seek to influence policies and practices of others and, in accordance with the resources it has available, complement the services provided by these organisations.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend
• Cardiff
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £622,103 and spent £635,709.

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 48%, from £420,791 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £622,103 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

33% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£203,063).

Largest funder

Cardiff Council gave £71,021 in the year to 31 March 2025, 11% 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: £71,021 from 1 grant. Government contracts: £132,042 from 3 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 11 funders who gave £272,871 between them. £142,928 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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 15 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £1,641,899.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher Joseph ReddingtonAppointed 13 June 2022
• Dr Carole JonesAppointed 15 November 2021
• Elin Haf EdwardsAppointed 17 February 2023
• James Henry AskeyAppointed 21 April 2021
• John SandersAppointed 14 October 2013
• Susan SullivanAppointed 26 April 2021
• Suzanne PettersonAppointed 17 February 2023

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

214131

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 January 1963

Governing document

WILL AT EDINBURGH ON 9 APRIL 1885.

Company number

00149982This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.sightlife.walesAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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.

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

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth