Common questions about The Royal Society for Blind Children's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Royal Society for Blind Children a good charity? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 81% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. 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 Society for Blind Children a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Society for Blind Children as a registered charity (charity number 307892). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=307892&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 Society for Blind Children's charity number? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children's charity number is 307892. 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 Society for Blind Children's charity rating? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children scores 89 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). 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 Society for Blind Children have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Society for Blind Children. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). 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 Society for Blind Children? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 81% of The Royal Society for Blind Children'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 Society for Blind Children's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 20% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Society for Blind Children. The Royal Society for Blind Children's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Society for Blind Children receive? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children reported £4.5m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Royal Society for Blind Children's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Royal Society for Blind Children based? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children's registered contact address is in London (EC3R 6EN). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on sight & hearing.
How much is The Royal Society for Blind Children's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Society for Blind Children's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Society for Blind Children's money come from? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children reported £4.5m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.6m (58%), charitable activities £1.7m (38%), investments £143k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £456k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Society for Blind Children? +
The register records The Royal Society for Blind Children 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 Society for Blind Children's trustees paid? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Royal Society for Blind Children previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Royal Society for Blind Children: The Royal London Society for the Blind; The Royal London Society for Blind People.
When was The Royal Society for Blind Children registered as a charity? +
The Royal Society for Blind Children was entered on the register on 25 April 1963. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00139928).
How does CharityCompare score The Royal Society for Blind Children? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Society for Blind Children'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 Society for Blind Children'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.