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British Wireless For The Blind Fund

A Registered Charity based in England

Active Registered Charity (Scotland) Cross Border Charity Trust

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Description

The objects of the Fund are to provide radios, radio cassette recorders, television sound receivers and any other equipment or services which are necessary or desirable to ensure that registered blind and registered partially sighted people in the British Islands are given the opportunity to benefit from the reception of sound transmission available at any time to the population as a whole ('the Objects').

OSCR Charity number

SC041582

Registered

Postcode

ME14 5DZ

Website

blind.org.uk

Latest income

£1,642,407 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

British Wireless For The Blind Fund

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Registered Office in the UK

British Wireless For The Blind Fund

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1078287 .
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-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC041582 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

British Wireless For The Blind Fund (this record)

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British Wireless For The Blind Fund

GB-SC-SC041582

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • People with disabilities or health problems

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

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.

  • Services for people with disabilities D13

UK Charity Activity Tags

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  • Arts AR » Media and publishing AR200 » Radio AR205
  • Arts AR » Media and publishing AR200 » Television AR206
  • Beneficiary group BE » People with disabilities BE200
  • Health HE » Health condition HE200 » Visual impairment HE215

British Wireless For The Blind Fund

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Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2010-06-18 Registered as a charity
2017-12-31 1,630,311 2,294,125
2018-12-31 1,742,162 1,763,116
2019-12-31 1,180,361 1,912,487
2020-12-31 1,129,243 1,498,351
2021-12-31 1,162,116 1,472,942
2022-12-31 1,642,407 1,550,502
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

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British Wireless For The Blind Fund

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Grants received

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Trustee Nom Grants 		£1,000 Grant to British Wireless for the Blind Fund
R S Macdonald Charitable Trust £5,000 BWBF CONNECT
Co-operative Group £6,011 Grant to British Wireless for the Blind
Sir George Martin Trust £1,000 Grant to British Wireless for the Blind Fund
Wolfson Foundation
Health and Disability 		£2,500 Grant to British Wireless for the Blind Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All 		£4,851
1 year 		Reducing Social Isolation - Technology Project for Visually Impaired
Nov 2015 to Nov 2016
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All 		£9,751
1 year 		Reducing social isolation through technology project for the visually impai
Feb 2014 to Feb 2015
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
All Our Stories 		£9,600 Grant to British Wireless for the Blind Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All 		£3,500
1 year 		Dorset Radio for Life Project
Mar 2011 to Mar 2012

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