Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

EAST SUSSEX VISION SUPPORT 

SUPPORTING LOCAL PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED, AND THEIR CARERS, TO RETAIN OR REGAIN INDEPENDENCE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, SKILLS TRAINING AND BY PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION, ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX AND THE UNITARY AUTHORITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender 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
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 62 years
(83 years as a company)

www.eastsussexblind.org

info@eastsussexblind.org

01323832252

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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
31/03/22£409£403£6n/an/an/an/an/a207
31/03/21£415£284£131n/an/an/an/an/a216
31/03/20£318£408£-90n/an/an/an/an/a216
31/03/19£318£408£-90n/an/an/an/an/a216
31/03/18£412£412£-1£0£0£0n/a0242
31/03/17£249£404£-154£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£271£408£-137£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£364£468£-104£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£805£407£398£102£813£70320.7100
31/03/13£397£370£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£267£341£-74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£262£343£-81£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£254£313£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£366£320£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£415£288£128£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£266£280£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£287£232£56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£174£164£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£153£200£-46£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 207 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£369,117
Sussex Community Foundation£25,000
DCMS£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£5,288
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephone Helpline
£10,000 04/11/2022
The funding will be used to provide a telephone helpline for clients that are blind or partially sighted. The project aims to give access to essential information advice and reduce isolation.
Sussex Community Foundation - IT Support Worker
£10,000 25/02/2022
Funding was provided towards staff costs for an IT support worker to work with blind and partially sighted people in East Sussex, helping them to set up and use computers/phones and deal with any ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People (ESAB)
£5,000 16/07/2021
12
Funding was provided for a Post Covid Support Project .
National Lottery Community Fund - Post Covid Outreach Vehicle restart
£9,778 09/07/2021
The funding will be used to re-start an outreach vehicle support service for blind or partially sighted people. The project aims to provide a keep in touch service for existing members and raise ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People - 27/04/21
£1,250 12/05/2021
Post Covid Outreach Vehicle Support Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Higher Intervention Worker
£339,339 15/12/2020
35
The organisation is using their funding to recruit Higher Intervention Workers who will provide practical emotional and physical support to clients who have higher complex needs over the next three ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 03/07/2020
"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 ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People (ESAB)
£5,000 14/04/2020
During the Coronavirus outbreak ESAB has seen a drop in funding from the cancellation of a major fundraising event. Funding is towards core costs for members of staff over 3 months since without ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to ESAB Outreach Vehicle Project
£5,288 15/11/2019
We want to bring our fun, social activity days for people with impaired vision into shopping centres, care homes, schools and colleges.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Outreach Vehicle Service
£10,000 26/09/2019
12
The Outreach Vehicle Service
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People (ESAB)
£5,000 05/07/2019
11
Funding was provided to enable ESAB to continue running its Social Groups, Mobility & Orientation and Aids & Equipment services.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/06/2019
Low Vision Service
National Lottery Community Fund - The Outreach Vehicle Service (OV) has been specifically designed
£10,000 26/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide transport for people who are blind and partially sighted. The project aims to raise awareness of sight loss within the community, reach people who are not aware of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Lives, Changing Attitudes
£220,781 15/06/2011
49
This project will provide visually impaired people in East Sussex with a two-pronged approach to improve their skills, self-confidence and information levels. It will do this via an 11-day course ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-88
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/1962, number: 209535
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/08/1940, number: 00363004
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR07: 16 days late,
Main office

13 Vicarage Field
Hailsham
Bn27 1BD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE (PHYSICAL AND GENERAL) WELFARE OF THE BLIND, AND THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS, PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO THE BLIND ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX AND THE UNITARY AUTHORITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE. THE WORD BLIND THROUGHOUT THESE PRESENTS SHALL INCLUDE ANY PERSON WHO IS BLIND, OR SUFFERING FROM ANY COMPLAINT OF THE EYES, OR COMES WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF A BLIND PERSON UNDER THE BLIND PERSONS ACT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX AND THE UNITARY AUTHORITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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