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Description
Sightline provides a free confidential telephone befriending service for visually impaired people (befriendees). Sightline focuses its service delivery in England and Wales. The service is delivered by a team of trained volunteers (befrienders), many of whom are themselves visually impaired. A befriendee is matched to a befriender who then have a weekly chat at a date/time that suits both parties.
Also known as
- Sightline Vision (North West) Limited
- Sightline Vision (North West) Limited
- Sightline Vision North West Limited
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
PR1 0LS
Website
Domain
sightline.org.uk
Latest income
£66,390 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1096452 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Sports activities
A21
UK Charity Activity Tags
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Beneficiary group
BE» People with disabilitiesBE200 -
Charity and VCS support
CV» VolunteeringCV104 -
Health
HE» Health conditionHE200» Visual impairmentHE215 -
Social welfare
SW» LonelinessSW106
Theme (CCEW)
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General Charitable Purposes
101 -
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
103 -
Disability
104
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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Children/young People
201 -
Elderly/old People
202 -
People With Disabilities
203 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Provides Human Resources
304 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307
Scale of operation
- National
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-03-11 |
Registered as a charity |
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| 2004-12-31 | 34,308 | 15,759 |
| 2005-12-31 | 25,604 | 23,550 |
| 2006-12-31 | 31,701 | 29,889 |
| 2007-12-31 | 28,555 | 34,600 |
| 2008-12-31 | 30,442 | 38,630 |
| 2009-12-31 | 52,440 | 42,776 |
| 2010-12-31 | 70,485 | 63,055 |
| 2011-12-31 | 63,283 | 56,690 |
| 2012-12-31 | 44,254 | 56,977 |
| 2013-12-31 | 92,464 | 66,218 |
| 2014-12-31 | 73,035 | 74,240 |
| 2015-12-31 | 50,384 | 63,834 |
| 2016-12-31 | 43,537 | 40,307 |
| 2017-12-31 | 101,540 | 71,966 |
| 2018-12-31 | 85,342 | 83,460 |
| 2019-12-31 | 43,828 | 60,610 |
| 2020-12-31 | 28,028 | 46,335 |
| 2021-12-31 | 79,159 | 68,068 |
| 2022-12-31 | 89,444 | 81,761 |
| 2023-12-31 | 66,390 | 82,965 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | - | - |
| Volunteers | 73 | 45 |
| Trustees | 5 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
According to data returned to the Charity Commission, this charity did not receive income from government grants or contracts in 2023 (the latest year with data available) or 2022.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Small Grant |
£10,500 | MCF Small Grant | ||
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The National Lottery Community Fund
RC North West Region |
£199,371
2 years |
Befriending Service
Apr 2021 to Mar 2024 |
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|
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Coronavirus Community Support Fund |
£19,000 | Coronavirus Community Support Fund | ||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
Reaching Communities |
£272,700
3 years |
Sightline Vision North West
Aug 2016 to Aug 2019 |
||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
Reaching Communities |
£190,540
4 years |
Sightline Vision North West
Jul 2012 to Jul 2016 |
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|
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All |
£10,000
1 year |
Sightline Training for Visually Impaired Volunteers
Jun 2011 to Jun 2012 |
||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All |
£4,387
2 years |
Sharing the Vision
Sep 2006 to Sep 2008 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Masonic Charitable Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (5 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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