Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND 

Home visits, training in IT skills, telephone advice, advice and support at hospital information desk and at resource centres generally to promote the physical mental and spiritual well being of the visual impaired in our area of operation.
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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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£493£480£13n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/22£380£377£2n/an/an/an/an/a144
31/03/21£398£354£44n/an/an/an/an/a115
31/03/20£211£490£-279n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/19£229£464£-235n/an/an/an/an/a300
31/03/18£513£509£4£5£950£78518.5140
31/03/17£313£546£-233£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£422£495£-73£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£409£416£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£487£434£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£402£499£-97£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£506£515£-8£52£594£3237.5160
31/03/11£548£511£37£54£578£2966.9180
31/03/10£581£511£70£27£538£2856.7180
31/03/09£571£533£37£49£429£2114.7190
31/03/08£557£572£-15£37£446£661.4170
31/03/07*£455£481£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£438£428£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£380£352£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£230£261£-31£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 59 years
(71 years as a company)

www.aftb.org.uk

info@aftb.org.uk

02084235141

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond Upon Thames,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 150 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
National Lottery Community Fund£143,500
Vision Foundation£136,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£90,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
City Bridge Trust£75,609
London Borough of Hounslow£36,000
Masonic Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£4,300 15/11/2023
Purchase of a braille embosser for a charity which works with people who are visually impaired in Brent
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£25,000 01/12/2022
To reach vulnerable people with visual impairment, to give them support to reduce isolation, increase independence and improve mental wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£10,000 21/11/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 19/08/2022
Middlesex Association for the Blind - Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Home based IT support for people with sight loss
£10,000 15/07/2022
The funding will be used to employ an IT trainer to support people with a visual impairment to connect online. This will provide tailored and bespoke training at the service users homes to develop ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£50,000 06/07/2022
24
£50,000 over two years (2 x £25,000) towards the delivery of Middlesex Association for the Blind’s home visiting service in Brent and Haringey enabling 85 elderly visually-impaired people to ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to The Middlesex Association for the Blind
£90,000 24/09/2021
36
To support the Home Visiting Service which combats loneliness in 260+ elderly visually impaired people in London, linking them up to monthly groups that create new social opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Core Costs
£120,000 27/08/2021
The group is using funding to support provision for people who are blind and partially sighted across West London. The project will provide information advice training and support to people who are ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 20/08/2021
Middlesex Association for the Blind - Core Costs
London Catalyst - Middlesex Association for the Blind - 1
£4,000 21/06/2021
Mobile Resource Unit - Eye Awareness, Eye Care and Visual Impairment assistance for BAME communities in Hounslow.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£11,000 02/03/2021
12
To ensure that people who have visual impairments and who may have become isolated as a result of this, get the support they need to re-engage with services and community activities.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£10,000 08/12/2020
0
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephonic Befriending and Support for Elderly Visually Impaired People.
£13,500 04/06/2020
12
The funding will be used to support to vulnerable older visually impaired people who are isolated in their homes. This is comprised of a home visiting support programme and a befriending and support ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 29/05/2020
Home Visiting Service Project
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£15,609 28/05/2020
£15,609 towards 3 months of costs as outlined in your application.
Vision Foundation - Transition grant offered at end of membership structure
£126,000 11/03/2020
Transition grant offered at end of membership structure (core funding for 3 years)
Vision Foundation - IT Project
£10,000 05/06/2019
12
To run 1-to-1 IT sessions for blind and partially sighted people in Middlesex.
Vision Foundation - Greater London Fund for the Blind Member 2019-2020
£31,360 01/04/2019
12
Greater London Fund for the Blind, member distribution 2019-2020 (core funding)
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£15,000 08/03/2018
12
Provides a range of specialist services for blind and visually impaired including skills development, equipment and social support.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£4,784 04/08/2017
The Mobile Advice Unit makes available expert advice about support services, health and specialist equipment in an easily accessible way.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Middlesex Association for the Blind
£15,000 27/02/2017
12
Provision of a range of specialist support to visually impaired and blind residents including floating support, ICT and Braille training, employment support, and preventative information and advice ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Rapid Response Unit (CRRU)
£40,000 02/05/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Rapid Response Project
£117,023 14/03/2013
36
This new project will offer a rapid early intervention response for people who have just been diagnosed as blind or partially sighted offering a range of emotional and practical support during the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/12/1964, number: 207007
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/12/1952, number: 00514204
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; AR12: 1 days late, AR07: 49 days late,
Main office

Middlesex Association for the Blind
Unit 18
Freetrade House
Lowther Road
STANMORE
HA7 1EP

Objectives

3. Objects3.1 The objects (“Objects”) for which the Charity continues to be established are:-3.1.1 To assist and promote in any and every way the welfare and the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the visually impaired in the area of operations.3.1.2 To take such steps as may from time to time be deemed expedient to promote the prevention or reduction of and the recovery from visual impairment of the visually impaired in the area of operations and for such purposes to act in conjunction with any other association or body or person or persons pursuing like objects.3.1.3 To organise, promote and/or support classes of instruction and activities of a similar nature for the instruction, benefit or welfare of the visually impaired in the area of operations.3.2 For the purposes of the Objects “the area of operations” means, but shall not be limited to, the areas of the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond as they are constituted at the date of adoption of these Articles of Association.“Visually impaired” means and includes persons living in the area of operations who are blind or who suffer from defective sight whether or not they are registered as blind or with defective sight and includes those persons living in the area of operations who in addition to being visually impaired suffer from defective hearing.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE AREAS OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF BARNET, BRENT, EALING, ENFIELD, HARINGEY, HARROW, HILLINGDON, HOUNSLOW AND RICHMOND.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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