Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted 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
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£93£90£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£100£108£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£82£77£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£126£97£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£108£91£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£93£77£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£67£79£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£96£71£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£69£71£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£71£83£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£84£77£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£93£78£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£77£72£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£91£70£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£67£72£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£83£65£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£72£65£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£64£63£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£47£63£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£37£52£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 32 years

www.clearvisionproject.org

info@clearvisionproject.org

02087899575

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
?
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 supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
BBC Children in Need£19,242
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£18,000
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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 23/11/2023
ClearVision Library
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, insert them between the regular pages and rebind the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Clearvision
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
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 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. These books will support sighted parents to ....more
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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
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 books to families and organisations across the UK. ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£25,000 28/11/2017
36
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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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

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
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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