Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

VISION CARE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE 

VCHP provide free eyecare services to homeless and other vulnerable people in UK in an accessible and friendly environment in which they feel safe, welcome and comfortable. We aim to preserve, protect and promote the ocular health of homeless and other vulnerable people in the UK and include the provision of spectacles that meets their immediate visual needs.
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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
Established: 17 years
(19 years as a company)

www.visioncareforhomelesspeople.org

info@vchp.org.uk

02032864186

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£152£161£-9n/an/an/an/an/a95
31/03/22£107£113£-7n/an/an/an/an/a56
31/03/21£105£95£10n/an/an/an/an/a32
31/03/20£200£131£70n/an/an/an/an/a109
31/03/19£113£119£-7n/an/an/an/an/a101
31/03/18£105£115£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£101£90£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£108£76£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£99£67£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£63£64£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£41£44£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£38£32£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£29£19£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£33£17£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£28£34£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£35£15£20£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Brighton And Hove, Bristol City, Devon, Gloucestershire, Leeds City, Manchester City, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 95 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
The Fore£60,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,996
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,400
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£5,000
City Bridge Trust£4,375
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Windrush The Story Continues - An interactive story
£10,000 05/05/2023
The funding will be used to create a series of audio-visual tactile storybooks and a photo album in which the participants select their own photographs. The project aims to bring the community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Opticians for Refugees and Homeless in Stratford London
£9,996 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to establish a free opticians service for homeless people and impoverished migrants. The project aims to maintain health and wellbeing and provide better access to optical ....more
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£5,000 29/04/2022
12% of the running costs of optician clinics for homeless people based in homeless day centres in cities across England.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£5,400 01/07/2021
purchase air filters for a charity supporting eye care services to homeless people in London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£4,375 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £4,375, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
National Lottery Community Fund - Opticians for Homeless and Refugees in Stratford, London
£10,000 24/01/2020
12
The funding will be used to set up a new facility providing optician services for people who are homeless, vulnerable or seeking refuge. The project aims to improve participants' health, well-being ....more
The Fore - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£30,000 08/12/2019
24
One third of homeless people have never had their eyes tested and a further third haven’t for at least ten years. Without access to eyecare services and glasses, homeless people are less able to ....more
The Fore - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£30,000 01/12/2019
24
One third of homeless people have never had their eyes tested and a further third haven't for at least ten years. Without access to eyecare services and glasses, homeless people are less able to find ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£4,816 19/11/2018
Help us provide a free eye care service and spectacles to homeless and vulnerable people in and around Exeter.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Mobile optician’s service for homeless people in London
£500 12/11/2018
Towards the mobile optician’s service for homeless people in London.
London Catalyst - Vision Care for Homeless People - 1
£2,720 15/06/2017
Pilot a mobile opticians service for homeless people in East London.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£37,100 20/03/2017
36
£37,100 over 3 years (£2,600, £17,000, £17,500) for the salary of a p/t (2 dpw) Volunteer Manager and associated costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Vision Care for Homeless People
£78,000 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing an optician service for homeless people in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Brighton
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 43-63
  • EMMA LOW Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Self-Employed Charity Fundraising Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/2007, number: 1118076
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/12/2004, number: 05309978
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 risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

C/o Crisis Uk
50-52 Commercial Street
LONDON
E1 6LT

Objectives

TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE OCULAR HEALTH OF HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE PEOPLE IN THE UK WHO ARE UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO ACCESS MAINSTREAM SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE NHS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF A COMPREHENSIVE HIGH QUALITY AND FREE AT THE POINT OF USE OCULAR HEALTH SERVICE, INCLUDING SCREENING AND THE PROVISION OF SPECTACLES, THAT MEETS THE IMMEDIATE VISUAL NEEDS OF OUR BENEFICIARIES IN A SAFE, ACCESSIBLE, FRIENDLY AND COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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