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Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment

Discover 346 Health charities that specialise in visual impairment. Use the search below to filter within these results.

346
Charities
£13,546,300,769
Total Income
£3,609,459
Avg Income
87.2%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Telephones For The Blind Fund

Health

The fund exists to help to provide communication devices and services for those who are registered blind or visually impaired and are on low income, enabling many blind and visually impaired people to live independently.

Latest Income: £57,132
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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West Cumbria Society For The Blind

Associations, Health

1 We provide a Resource & information Centre open 9am-5pm Mon to Friday. 2 We provide an outreach visiting service and social clubs for blind or partially sighted.

Latest Income: £49,144
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Help The Child

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health

Help the Child raises funds through a number of events throughout the year, with the purpose of providing items of specialist equipment and educational toys for children with special educational needs, physical disability or sensory impairment within Somerset.

Latest Income: £39,612
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Isle Of Ely Society For The Blind

Associations, Health, Social welfare

To provide assistance,advice,support and social activities for blind and partially sighted persons who are resident in the old county of the "Isle of Ely".

Latest Income: £34,322
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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Shanklin Rifle And Pistol Club

Education, Health

The Club has existed since 1903 to teach all members to use firearms safely & and to a high standard of competence. We accept people of all ages and capabilities and of either gender.We accept wheel chair bound people where this is compatible with out range capabilities and are developing a facility for blind shooters. We have strong links with the Scout Movement and local High Schools.

Latest Income: £33,636
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Wight
Status: Registered
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Pembrokeshire Blind Society

Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

To promote the material mental and spiritual welfare of persons within the County of Pembrokeshire who are suffering from blindness, total or registered. It makes grants of clothing, equipment, and gifts of any kind whatsoever or otherwise to or for the benefit of such persons by arranging for them to be visited wherever they may be, and by arranging transport, trips or holidays for them.

Latest Income: £31,138
Areas of Operation: Pembrokeshire
Status: Registered
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Blackburn And District Blind Society

Health

To provide welfare services to the blind and partially sighted within the local government districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley.

Latest Income: £26,526
Areas of Operation: Blackburn With Darwen
Status: Registered
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Oxford Mission

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Housing, Social care

Founded in 1880. In Behala, India it funds: an orphanage for 135+ boys between the ages of 4 & 15, educated & taught music; old peoples home; ENT/eye clinics.It funds in Bangladesh: Barisal - high & primary schools, boys & girls hostels, girls orphanage & a medical centre; Jobarpar - an indigenous sisterhood (CSS), oversees girls hostel & a play centre & helps in the diocesan primary school.

Latest Income: £22,823
Areas of Operation: Bangladesh
Status: Registered
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The Norwich Talking Newspaper

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Health

Chatterbox, the Norwich Talking Newspaper provides weekly recordings of the Eastern Evening News. As well as the weekly news we provide relevant information and details of upcoming events plus a special Christmas edition and quarterly magazine recording. We also supply equipment to play the recordings on. This is all created by a dedicated team volunteers and has been in operation since 1979.

Latest Income: £19,111
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Mountfield Village Hall

Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, Facilities, Health, Leisure, Social welfare

For use of inhabitants of the Parish of Mountfield and surrounding areas as a meeting place for village activities and recreations, such as parish council, social club, horticultural society, blind club, community transport, painting classes, dancing classes, birthday parties, wedding receptions, funeral wakes, fund raising activities.

Latest Income: £16,901
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Bromley And District Talking Newspaper Association

Arts, Health

The provision of a free weekly talking newspaper "Bromley District Talking News" on Memory Stick to the blind and partially sighted residents or former residents of the borough of Bromley.

Latest Income: £16,166
Areas of Operation: Bromley
Status: Registered
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Wealden Talking News

Arts, Health

Production and provision of audio editions of local newspapers to visually impaired. Production and provision of audio magazines to visually impaired. Facilities also used to convert written data to audio versions for other local charities, e.g. East Sussex Association for the Blind, Care for the Carers, etc.

Latest Income: £14,648
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Cotswold Listener

Arts, Health

Records and distributes a weekly talking newspaper and magazine on CD, memory stick and via website to approximately 165 visually impaired listeners in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and North Cotswolds.

Latest Income: £12,838
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Redditch And Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper

Arts, Health, Leisure

To provide a weekly talking newspaper, containing local news and other useful information including local and national government bulletins on social matters; community safety; environment; transport and leisure. The newspaper is distributed on USB memory sticks and uploaded onto the BWBF streamed service for accessing through the Talking Newspaper app and on smart speakers such as Alexa.

Latest Income: £10,908
Areas of Operation: Worcestershire
Status: Registered
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Merton Sports And Social Club For Visually Impaired People

Associations, Charity and VCS support, Health, Leisure, Social welfare

MSSC is a sports and social club for visually impaired people and sighted members. We run regular cycling, walking, bowls, darts, swimming, canoeing and social activities including quizzes, theatres, brewery tours and much more from our base in Colliers Wood, Merton. We try to partner with other organisations in Merton and beyond that support us through fundraising and shared activities.

Latest Income: £10,735
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Rotherham Talking Newspaper

Arts, Health

Provision of local news on audio cassette, memory stick or CD for blind or visually impaired people in the local area. Also provision of weekly and monthly audio magazines

Latest Income: £9,290
Areas of Operation: Rotherham
Status: Registered
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Swindon Blind Association

Associations, Health, Leisure

Craft Club - Tuesdays 10 am - 1 pm Principally cane work, but any other craft work is encouraged.Social Club - Wednesday 2 - 4 pm Entertainment provided by either visiting performers or activities such as dominoes or bingo.

Latest Income: £8,840
Areas of Operation: Swindon
Status: Registered
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London Sports Club For The Blind

Health, Leisure

PROMOTES AND ORGANISES SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.SWIMMING,BOWLING,ROWING,KAYAKING,SKIING AND activity HOLIDAYS

Latest Income: £8,238
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Plymouth And West Devon Cassette Talking Newspaper

Arts, Health

'Plymouth & West Devon Cassette talking Newspaper' creates and distributes audio cassettes of local or relevant news items on a weekly basis to blind folk in the Plymouth and West Devon Area. There are currently about 200 registered users of the service for which no charge is made.

Latest Income: £7,487
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Joseph Clarke School Trust

Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Leisure

To provide such special benefits of any kind not normally provided by the Local Education Authority for Joseph Clarke School for the visually impaired of London E4 9PP. To educate and assist visually impaired young persons through their leisure time activities to develop their physical mental and spiritual capacities.

Latest Income: £7,482
Areas of Operation: Waltham Forest
Status: Registered
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Cymdeithas Ceredigion I'r Deillion / Ceredigion Association For The Blind

Health

Supporting the needs of the blind and partially sighted living within the county of Ceredigion. Working in conjunction with Ceredigion Social Services, and Wales Council for the Blind.

Latest Income: £6,660
Areas of Operation: Ceredigion
Status: Registered
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Wirral Talking Newspaper

Arts, Health

To provide local news, information and items of general interest in an audio format to members of the blind and partially sighted community on the Wirral.

Latest Income: £4,810
Areas of Operation: Wirral
Status: Registered
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St Edmundsbury Newstalk Association

Health

We are a local charity for the Blind & Partially Sighted in the West Suffolk Council area. We provide weekly audio newsletters on digital memory stick, containing news extracted from local newspapers, and bi-monthly audio magazines containing interviews, short stories and articles of local interest.The service is free of charge to Listeners including the supply of digital players.

Latest Income: £4,773
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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The Fraser Trust

Health

To assist Blind Veterans UK in providing life-long care for men and women blinded in the service of their country to achieve independent, fulfilling and meaningful lives following blindness.

Latest Income: £4,503
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Diocesan Digest Sound Magazine Of Lichfield Cathedral

Arts, Health, Religion

Provide a mailing of tapes or memory sticks monthly to visually impaired recipients giving details of activities within the Lichfield diocese which we feel may be of interest. These are mainly of a religious nature.

Latest Income: £3,862
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many visual-impairment health charities are there in the UK?

There are 346 registered visual-impairment health charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the visual-impairment health charities by income?

Nuffield Health is the largest by latest reported annual income (£1.5bn). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of visual-impairment health charities?

Visual-impairment health charities reported a combined annual income of £13.5bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for visual-impairment health charities?

Across all visual-impairment health charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 87.2%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of visual-impairment health charities?

Visual-impairment health charities have an average annual income of £3.6m. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.