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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

VISION NORTH SOMERSET

Advice to help reduce poverty for individuals; Support Service at local hospital; Befrienders to reduce social isolation; Clubs to provide peer support; Home visitors to help with correspondence and provide companionship; Registration and Rehabilitation for Blind and Partially Sighted People; Demonstration of aids and equipment; Environmental Equipment Service for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£312£342£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£398£320£78n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£332£324£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£348£337£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£263£278£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£264£297£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£670£421£249£0£249£2497.1100
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

https://visionnorthsomerset.org

contact@visionns.org.uk

01934419393

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Blind people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Somerset,
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
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Quartet Community Foundation£73,589
Postcode Local Trust£22,423
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Vision North Somerset
£150,000 01/02/2024
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing guidance support and a befriending service for people with sight loss and/or hearing loss across North Somerset.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Vision North Somerset
£10,000 11/05/2023
Support for staff training and development and for communication of the new strategy.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Vision North Somerset
£39,006 16/06/2022
We will use a grant to rebuild and develop volunteering at Vision North Somerset so that we can reach and support more people with sight loss and strengthen our organisation.
Postcode Local Trust - Wellbeing activities
£22,423 26/04/2022
Funding was used to grow our befriending service and social/peer support groups, improving wellbeing for more visually impaired people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Adaptive equipment - Try and Test
£4,900 24/08/2021
11
To provide volunteer led one to one learning opportunities to enable visually impaired people to become competent with adaptive technology designed to meet their sight loss needs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping Each Other
£9,900 21/05/2021
The organisation will provide peer to peer befriending group sessions and one to one counselling and emotional support for people with sight loss and those who are partially sighted who have been affected by COVID-19.
Quartet Community Foundation - Talking for Health
£19,683 29/01/2021
13
For a project worker to alleviate loneliness and isolation for those with sight loss by running on line groups and activities, together with telephone social groups.
National Lottery Community Fund - Trained to Deliver
£9,616 17/10/2019
12
Trained to Deliver
Somerset Community Foundation - Radiating a Warm Welcome
£2,500 17/07/2019
12
New radiators for charity premises.
National Lottery Community Fund - In Sight In Touch
£336,328 19/12/2018
36
In Sight In Touch will work in the community supporting anyone with sight loss via an outreach service. The project will help people to use digital technology offering a peer support service and a buddy volunteering service.
Quartet Community Foundation - Re-Boot
£4,943 01/10/2018
12
To take new IT equipment to various venues within North Somerset, including libraries, offering practical workshops on use. This funding also includes a launch event.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Vision North Somerset
£13,065 16/05/2018
12
This request would enable the charity to bring in a consultant with the expertise to support them to develop their outcomes framework and impact monitoring systems.
Quartet Community Foundation - Community Outreach
£3,843 14/03/2018
12
Towards piloting a year's outreach project, run by 11 volunteers and overseen by a staff member. The outreach project will aim to target people who are in the process of losing their sight or who have just received a diagnosis.
Quartet Community Foundation - Access for All
£8,062 06/06/2017
11
To purchase a new computer system and confidential data base, replacing existing system.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • EMMA HOPKINSON-SPARK Appointed: 2024
  • KIM MORRISSEY Appointed: 2023
  • MARIE STARK MACKLE (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • MICHAEL BOWEN Appointed: 2023
  • SAMMI JOSEPH SAMAD Appointed: 2023
  • SONJA GREENFIELD Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/02/2016, number: 1165364
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NAILSEA LIONS CLUB on 19/12/2023
Main office

3 NEVA ROAD
WESTON-SUPER-MARE
BS23 1YD

Objectives

THE PREVENTION AND ALLEVIATION OF BLINDNESS, IMPAIRED VISION AND HEARING LOSS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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