Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 3

EAST CHESHIRE EYE SOCIETY

Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired persons in the area of East Cheshire. Maintaining Resource Centre of specialist equipment. Advice and help on visual difficulties. Social and recreation activities provided.

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 including the Government
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
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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	*	£39	£44	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22		£84	£79	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/21		£74	£77	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	55
31/03/20		£24	£67	£-42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/19		£70	£68	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/18		£69	£69	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

www.eastcheshireeyesociety.org.uk

info@eastcheshireeyesociety.org.uk

01625422602

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Cheshire East,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 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

Cheshire Community Foundation	£11,678
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,742
CAF	£2,200

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Cheshire Community Foundation - Activities during COVID-19 restrictions
£4,000	15/12/2020	East Cheshire Eye Society provides support to people affected by sight loss. A large part of this is helping people cope with the effects of loneliness, isolation and loss of confidence. The Corona ....more East Cheshire Eye Society provides support to people affected by sight loss. A large part of this is helping people cope with the effects of loneliness, isolation and loss of confidence. The Corona Virus has meant that the society has had to cancel all of face-to-face social events and activities they run for people with sight loss, removing a valuable source of physical and mental activity, enabling physical and mental wellbeing. A grant will go towards the costs of staff to continue to run a resource centre through the corona virus period, enabling them to give advice and support, continue a successful and well received telephone befriending service to those people identified as most at risk of loneliness and isolation. They plan to extend and grow this service, enabling a range of different group calls between sets of friends in different areas. In addition, they plan to develop a dedicated counselling service for people affected by mental health issues through recent experiences
Cheshire Community Foundation - Corona Virus Support
£7,678	18/04/2020	East Cheshire Eye Society provides support to people affected by sight loss. A large part of this is helping people cope with the effects of loneliness, isolation and loss of confidence. The Corona ....more East Cheshire Eye Society provides support to people affected by sight loss. A large part of this is helping people cope with the effects of loneliness, isolation and loss of confidence. The Corona Virus has meant that we have had to cancel all of our face-to-face social events and activities that we run for people with sight loss, removing a valuable source of physical and mental activity, enabling physical and mental wellbeing. The Corona Virus has also had a huge impact on our fundraising in that we have had to cancel our major fundraising event of the year, together with other smaller fundraising events and collections. We wish to apply for a grant to help cover some of those losses that would have paid towards the costs of maintaining staff to run a resource centre through the corona virus period, enabling us to continue to effectively givie advice and support, where possible equipment as well as run a telephone befriending service to those people we have identified as most at risk of loneliness and isolation through this difficult period.
CAF - Grant to Macclesfield Society for the Blind
£2,200	17/04/2020	Grant to Macclesfield Society for the Blind to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Assistive Technology Training Project
£9,742	03/10/2019 12	Assistive Technology Training Project

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

ANGELA DILKES Appointed: 2024

ANTHONY EDWARD WEYMAN Appointed: 2023

CATHERINE ELIZABETH COSTIGAN Appointed: 2022

ELIZABETH MAY DURHAM Appointed: 2019

BRIDGET SELF, Occupation: Director

COLIN HUGH FREDERICK TURNER Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeship: MACCLESFIELD AND DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER,

MARTIN WELCH, Occupation: Retired Chartered Civil Engine

PAMELA HODGKISS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired Physiotherapist

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/09/2017, number: 1174656

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

6 returns made; AR23: 34 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from MACCLESFIELD SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND on 21/11/2022

Main office

11
Market Place
MACCLESFIELD
cheshire

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND AND THOSE WHO HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY DEFECTIVE SIGHT2) TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE.

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