Visual Impairment Breconshire

Support and assistance to visually impaired people throughout Breconshire,activities include:Making grants for equipment etc to individuals and groupsOperating a "friendly phone" service to the sight chalengedIssuing a CD & tape based quarterly nrwsletterOrganising escorted coach outings to blind persons resource centres and other solial destinations.

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

In Wales

• Powys

Area of benefit in its governing document: District of Brecknock

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £240 and spent £1,185.

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 14%, from £210 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £240 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 494% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Nick LancasterChairAppointed 26 June 2015
• Derek StephensAppointed 1 September 2011
• Laura GriffithsAppointed 3 July 2019
• Margaret James
• Ruth ThomasAppointed 24 June 2015

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, 3 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

217377

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

30 December 1964

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED ON 30 JULY 1958 AS AMENDED ON 21 MARCH 1974 AS AMENDED ON 18 JUNE 2004.

Website

www.visualimpairment.breconshire.powys.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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