Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

CLEARVISION PROJECT

The ClearVision Project is a national postal lending library of over 15,000 children's books with the text added in braille so that the books can be shared by print and braille reading children and adults. ClearVision currently lends books to over a thousand families, schools, visual impairment services and public libraries all over the United Kingdom.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£93	£90	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/22	£100	£108	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/21	£82	£77	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/20	£126	£97	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/03/19	£108	£91	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	36
31/03/18	£93	£77	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£67	£79	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£96	£71	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£69	£71	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£71	£83	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£84	£77	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£93	£78	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£77	£72	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£91	£70	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£67	£72	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£83	£65	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£72	£65	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£64	£63	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£47	£63	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£37	£52	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 32 years

www.clearvisionproject.org

info@clearvisionproject.org

02087899575

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
30 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

BBC Children in Need	£18,742
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust	£18,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
The Grocers' Charity	£9,500
DCMS	£8,486
True Colours Trust	£4,455
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£2,000
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - ClearVision Project
£4,500	28/04/2023	to support the free postal lending library for UK families with sight-impaired children and the schools/organisations which support them. Volunteers braille book text onto clear plastic sheets, ....more to support the free postal lending library for UK families with sight-impaired children and the schools/organisations which support them. Volunteers braille book text onto clear plastic sheets, insert them between the regular pages and rebind the books.
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - ClearVision Project
£5,000	02/06/2021	Towards core costs of providing dual print and braille children’s books and a free postal lending library to UK families and organisations working with vision impaired children. Increased demand ....more Towards core costs of providing dual print and braille children’s books and a free postal lending library to UK families and organisations working with vision impaired children. Increased demand due to homeschooling during COVID.
True Colours Trust - Towards producing books for visually impaired children and their families
£4,455	20/04/2021	Towards producing books for visually impaired children and their families.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	19/03/2021	ClearVision Project
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to ClearVision Project
£2,000	17/02/2021	Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - ClearVision Project - 21/01/21
£1,000	03/02/2021	Core Funding
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Clearvision
£18,742	18/12/2020	This project will provide a postal library of dual print and braille books to children who are blind or partially sighted. Activities will increase braille literacy and improve skills.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Free postal library of dual print and braille children's books for vision impaired children in Scotland
£18,000	23/11/2020	Requesting a three year grant for the creation and provision of 600 dual print and braille children’s books to vision impaired children in Scotland via the ClearVision free postal lending library. ....more Requesting a three year grant for the creation and provision of 600 dual print and braille children’s books to vision impaired children in Scotland via the ClearVision free postal lending library. These books will support sighted parents to undertake homeschooling literacy work alongside schools.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,486	25/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£12,000	08/03/2019	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£15,000	14/02/2019	towards transferring the existing catalogue onto an online public access system
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to ClearVision Project
£4,845	04/12/2018	To convert and catalogue a 100 books into Braille for a library that supports children with visual impairment
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - ClearVision Project
£17,760	29/11/2017	ClearVision exists to promote and further the education of blind and partially sighted persons by creating dual print and braille books and operating the only free postal lending library of these ....more ClearVision exists to promote and further the education of blind and partially sighted persons by creating dual print and braille books and operating the only free postal lending library of these books to families and organisations across the UK. This lets thousands of sighted parents sit and read with a visually impaired child, raising literacy and wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£25,000	28/11/2017	ClearVision Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to ClearVision Project
£66,000	12/09/2012 36	towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a National Children’s Braille Library providing support to blind children, their families and teachers
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ClearVision Project
£45,000	17/11/2010 36	Towards Core costs Towards the salary of an administrator and development costs for a lending library for children with visual impairment.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISTER RIEDL Appointed: 2019

CHAMANDEEP SINGH GROVER Appointed: 2016

CHRISTINA MATAWA Appointed: 2014

LOUISE JEYNES Appointed: 2017

PETER MICHAEL FLYNN Appointed: 2021

ROSALYN GIBBONS

TIMOTHY KEITH RICHMOND (Chair) Appointed: 2017

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/07/1992, number: 1012850

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
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Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

CLEARVISION PROJECT
Linden Lodge School
61 Princes Way
LONDON
SW19 6JB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS OF ALL AGES IN PARTICULAR BY ESTABLISHING MAINTAINING AND OPERATING A LENDING LIBRARY OF BOOKS IN BRAILLE OR INTERLEAVED WITH BRAILLE EMBOSSED SHEETS OR IN ANY OTHER FORM OR MEDIUM ENABLING THEM TO BE READ BY THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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