Common questions about The Royal National Institute of Blind People's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Royal National Institute of Blind People a good charity? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People scores 72 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 62% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Royal National Institute of Blind People a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Royal National Institute of Blind People as a registered charity (charity number 226227). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=226227&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Royal National Institute of Blind People's charity number? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People's charity number is 226227. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Royal National Institute of Blind People's charity rating? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People scores 72 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Royal National Institute of Blind People have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal National Institute of Blind People. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Royal National Institute of Blind People? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 62% of The Royal National Institute of Blind People's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Royal National Institute of Blind People's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 20% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 21% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal National Institute of Blind People. The Royal National Institute of Blind People's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 97 employees paid more than £60,000, including 13 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Royal National Institute of Blind People receive? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People reported £96m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Royal National Institute of Blind People's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Royal National Institute of Blind People based? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People's registered contact address is in London (N1 9JE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, with a focus on sight & hearing.
How much is The Royal National Institute of Blind People's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal National Institute of Blind People's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 97 employees paid more than £60,000, including 13 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Royal National Institute of Blind People's money come from? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People reported £96m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £66m (69%), trading and fundraising events £22m (23%), charitable activities £5.7m (6%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £46m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal National Institute of Blind People? +
The register records The Royal National Institute of Blind People as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Royal National Institute of Blind People's trustees paid? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Royal National Institute of Blind People previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Royal National Institute of Blind People: The Royal National Institute of the Blind.
When was The Royal National Institute of Blind People registered as a charity? +
The Royal National Institute of Blind People was entered on the register on 21 March 1963. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number RC000500).
How does CharityCompare score The Royal National Institute of Blind People? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal National Institute of Blind People's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Royal National Institute of Blind People's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.