Sight Loss Shropshire

SLS's aim is to improve the quality of life of visually impaired people of all ages who live in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin by helping visually impaired people to cope with their sight loss and the difficulties this imposes on their daily lives, raising awareness of sight loss and acting as a local champion for visually impaired people.

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

Elsewhere

• Shropshire
• Telford & Wrekin

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 2026, it had income of £111,862 and spent £110,363.

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 322%, from £26,514 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £111,862 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 99% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. 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.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2026: Not reported. Government contracts: £15,750 from 1 contract.

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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

• Arwyn Elis JonesAppointed 8 November 2023
• Diana Rosemary Flint DLAppointed 10 July 2019
• Hayley Katherine DysonAppointed 8 July 2015
• Jennifer Beatrice WynnAppointed 21 July 2022
• Lindsey Catherine RowlandsAppointed 21 July 2022
• Rebecca Anne CumblidgeAppointed 16 July 2025
• Robert Brian DaplingAppointed 10 July 2024

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

215137

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

25 April 1963

Governing document

MINUTES OF MEETING HELD 18 JANUARY 1938

Website

www.sightlossshropshire.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Not matched to a council area

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 18 April 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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