CLEARVISION PROJECT ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025 REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1012850
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LEARVISION PROJECT BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 YIE 31.3.24 FIXED ASSETS Cost Less: Depre¢bation (page 4) 1,397 .1,197 200 38,197 -38.171 26 CURRENT ASSETS Debtor Slock Cash Bank 500 105 100 131331 $06 110 100 119,26T 119,983 132.038 NET ASSETS 132 236 120.009 REPRESENTED Unr•strlct•d Funds (Page 31 General Fd Balance blfrwd 118.555 126,450 Nel receip1(defIt)> for year Less: DepreGiaiion charge for year 12,391 -7.876 -25 -7.901 118,555 General Fund Balance 130,806 R•8lrlct•d Fund8 (Page 3) RestriGled Fund Balance Net payment for year bld 1.454 3,934 -84 1.370 3.934 -2,480 1,454 120 009 Less: Depreclatlon charge 1,370 132 236 ai Approved by the Board ofTrustee5 On........................ and slgned on its behalf by Trustee . Trusle
CLEARVISI NPR YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025 rlcted Fu Movements In R•sources Balanco 1 Aprll 2024 Balance 31 March 2025 In¢omlng Outgolng My Home Library Scheme 23 23 The Moon Forum Fund 842 842 Heritage Cirqa Library Management System and SeThlc8S Fund 789 705 Totsl -84 1,370 M Home Llbra Sch•m• ClearVision18 administwirvJ this scherne for Anne Fine. Forum F The Moon Forum Fund relates to Ihe activltles of the Moon Foruffl, a group of organlsalions includlng RNIB, involved In Ihe promotion and production of Moon. H•rfta na Llbra omont nd S•rvlc•s Harltage Cirqa Litxary Management System and Serrfices Fund 18 80t up for the upgradlng of the library sofNvare and puttlrvJ the catalogue online {The Heritage Project). ANALYSIS OF N SSETS BETW Flxfjd Assets Current Assots Total Amounl Unrestricted Fund$ 200 130.666 130.866 Restrlcted Funds 1,370 1.370 200 132,036 132,236
CLEARVISI N PROJECT YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025 FIXED ASSET Offlc• Hul Flxlurns menl & Flttln Total amount Co•1 At 1 April 2024 36,999 55 1.143 1.198 Eliminalion Addilions -55 179 -55 254 75 At 31 March 2025 3e.999 179 1,218 1,397 Accurnulat•d Depr•clatlon At 1 April 2024 36,999 55 1,117 1,172 Eliminailon Charge for year -55 .55 80 20 At 31 Mar¢h 2025 36,999 1.137 1,197 N•t Book Valu• Al 1 April 2024 26 26 At 31 Marth 2025 119 81 200
CLEARVISION PROJECT (Charity Number 1012850) INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF CLEARVISION PROJECT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025 I rq)ort on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages I to 4. Respective responslbilities of trustees ind examiner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees considcr that an audit is not qUired for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is need¢d. It is my responsibility to: examinc the accounts under section 145 of thc 201 l Act follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission undcr section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act statc whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basls of Independent examlner's report My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual itcms or disclosur¢s in the accounts, and sccking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the cvidencc that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair view" and the report is limitcd io those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examlner's Statement In conncction with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: l. Which gives me reasonable cause to b¢li¢vc that in any material respect the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with thc accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met. 2. To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 6<4kna a4.7. 202s- Mrs. Barbara Gabriel Chartered Accountant 156 Clarence Avenuc New Malden KT3 3DY Date
Tru5tees' Annual Report and Flnanclal Revlew 2024.25 Clearvision Project, Linden Lodge School, 61 Princes Way, London SW19 6JB Reg. Charity No. 1012850 About Clearvlslon and our work What we do: We believe everyone should be able to experien the excitement, enjoyment and educational opportunities that come from sharing books with others. We give children who have a sight impairment a way to Sha stories with their sighted parents, siblings, teachers and peers. We also give adults with sight impairment the means to read with sighted children, improving children's literacy and allowing families to enjoy together one of the reat leasures of childhood. How we achleve thls: We do Ihis by adding braille to conventional children's books, and operating a postal lending library of these books, supplying them to families, schools, Sensory Support Services, public libraries and other organisations all across the UK and Ireland. Having print, braille (or Moon, an easier altemative to braille) and pictures together on the page allows these books to be shared by people wlth and without sight reading together. We also have a collection of around 800 handmade tactile image books which are loaned through schools and Sensory Support Services. These allow children to build up their touch skills in preparation for learning braille, whilst enjoying and benefitting from pictures, just as their sighted peers do. They are also a vital resource for children who read large print but don't have enough vision to enjoy conventional pictures, and to children and teenagers whose additional disabilities mean they may not learn to read, but hugely benefit from exploring Ihe pictures whilsl the words are read to them. Clearvision's braille books are produced by two self-employed braille transcribers, a self- employed blind proofreader and a prison braille unit. Our tactile books are created by volunteers across the UK. The project is run by a full-time Director and library borrowing administered by a part-time Library Administrator. Specific projects are supported by a part- time Project Officer. Our Alms: To promote literacy and a love of books in children and adults who are blind or have a sight impairment. To campaign for the availability of books in accessible formats for all people with sight impairment. To promote the provision, teaching, use and enjoyment of braille, Moon. and tactile illustrations.
Our Trustees: The work of the charty is directed by the board of Trustees.. Timothy Richmond (Chair)., Christina Matawa (Secretsry); Peter Flynn (Treasurer); Rosalyn Gibbons,. Louise Jeynes. Chamandeep Singh Grover, Leonie Masterson and Hannah Graff. All the Trustees have personal andlor professional knowledge of the education of children with sight impairment. Two are former Claarvision borrowers and have sight impairment, one is the parent of a young borrower. Most have additional management experience. Our Patron: We continue to enjoy the enthusiastic support of our patron, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine, OBE. Our Work Thls Year Clearvision has continued to provide a unique service and has increased both the range and quantity of books available in braille. This year we've loaned 8200 books to 344 families,145 nurseries, school and colleges. 14 public libraries and 56 Sensory Support services, supporting around 684 children with sight impairment. Because our books are designed for sharing, our borrowers, families, classmates and friends have benefitted too! 98 new families, 37 schools. nurseries and colleges and 11 new Sensory Support Services have joined the library since this time last year. We've also had 3 new public libraries join, so that they can host small collections of our dual fomat print-and-braille books in their branches, letting anyone walk in off the street and pick up something in a format they can read. Launch of our onllne catalogue In March we celebrated the launch of our long- anticipated online library catalogue and a smart new website to host it. This was the culmination of an incredible amount of work over several years. It showcases each title in our collection of over 10,000 books, including a description, cover photo and picture-description for each title. It is fully screenreader acccessible to allow all our borrowers to browse the collection, search for individual subjects or authors and create wish-lists for their future loans. We're delighted to be able to give our borrowers more choice and control over their loans than ever before. We hope this will be empowering, inspiring and drive even greater engagement with books and braille leaming. We're hugely grateful to the staff, volunteers and borrowers who have brought this wonderful new era to our library. Brallle200 celebrations This year, the UK has begun celebrating 200 years since the invention of braille. Our books have been used in 'Braille and Beyond, events in public libraries across the UK, highlighting the importance of this way of reading. We're also using this special year to conduct a series 1kn1yl, lbyl T(OJ•TDWk• Ei•¥Rlty 11 li yO(Sh
of interleWS with our borrowers and ex-borrowers about how they came to learn braille. their experience using our books, how they use braille today, and what they'd like to tell children just starting out on their own braille journey. These will be used on our website, social media and in talks lo support the next generation of young braillists. Because sight impairment is a relatively low-incidence disability, and braille-users are a small proportion of everyone who has sight impairment, children learning braille are often the only person they know who is doing so. Not only can this be isolating but it means they lack reading role models. Their parents and carers can often initially struggle with how "different. reading braille is to print (though many tell us that the fact that Clearvision books look so like regular books helps with this). We hope hearing the stories of other braillists will encourage our younger borrowers and help the general public understand braille better, hopefully letting those young borrowers grow up in a more informed, tolerant world. Expandlng our outreach One of our biggest challenges as a small but national charity is reaching potential borrowers: we know there are families who'd benefit from our seniice but simply haven't heard of us. This year we've been trying to expand awareness of our service amongst professionals who can signpost families to us. This has included presenting at the conference of VIEW (the professlonal body for specialist teachers of children with vision impainnent); meeting with Portage workers and giving a webinar to 26 public library staff from across the country. We're particularly pleased to have been part of the RNIB'S ECLO network's continuing professional development programme. Working in hospitals and with families, ECLOS are often a family's first point of information once their child has been diagnosed with a sight impainnent- literally in the hospital before they return home, and a long time before a family is assigned other professionals. One element of an ECLO'S role is to signpost the family to relevant services and support, which makes them ideal for helping families find Clearvision. We've also been part of several playgroups run by Guide Dogs as part of their My Time To Play project. Early development of touch skills is crucial for children with sight impairment, so getting to welcome these babies and toddlers to the library, knowing how well our books help develop these skills, is brilliant. Tactlle book excellence In July Clearvision coordinated the UK round of the 2024 Typhlo and Tactus Intemational Tactile Book Competition, a world-wide competition to encourage creators of tactile books for children with little or no sight. We received some excellent entries. Our young borrowers, who selected four to send to the international judging in Lublin, Poland. This year, for the first time, several 'Special Mentions. categories were trialled and British book Your Help Is Needed about environmentslism won the Didactic category, for books with a special 'message.' Our contributlons to wlder work: We continue to Work closely with other organisations providing books in acSsible formats, including the RNIB, Calibre audio library. Guide
Dogs, VICTA, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust and VIEW. We continue to support the UK Association for Accessible Fonnats and to sit on the board of Share the Vision, an organisation which widens access to public libraries for those unable to use regular books. This year we were delighted to sit on BookTrust England's selection panel for their specialist book-gifting packs for babies and toddlers with disabilities, including their BookTouch packs for those with sight impairment, and to work with the Scottish Book Trust to make titles in their Read Write Count With The First Minister packs accessible to children who use braille, via our library. Our Im The aim of all this work is to make a positive difference to the lives of our borrowers. Our impact survey conducted this year shows the success of this: 980/0 of respondents felt that accessing our books had helped their childlteenager's education, learning or developmenl; 890/0 felt that our books had helped their child feel more included at school, home or with friends, with 720/0 saying that il had helped very much; 9311/0 said their children felt more positive about sharing, reading or exploring books wilh 81 Q/0 describing their child as 'much more positive,. We are very proud that the library is doing what it was intended.. bringing the transformative power of books and shared reading to the lives of children who might otherwise not receive Our Su orters and Flnance Our supporters: We have been fortunate this year to receive financial support from the National lottery Community Fund, The Powell Family Foundation, The R. S MacDonald Foundation, The Sobell Foundation, The True Colours Trust, Fight For SighVThe Vision Foundation, The Catherine Cookson Foundation, The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation, The Childwick Trust, The John Thaw Foundation, The Wise Music Foundation, the Woodroffe Benton Foundation, Baron Davenports Charity, The Forrester Charitable Trust, The Spectacle Makers, Charity, Shanly Foundation, The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust and the Travers Smith Foundation. We are grateful to the generosity of these organisations, and that of the numerous generous individuals who support our work, including those who have made us part of their legacy. Restrlcted funds: The 'My Home Library, fund is designed to pay for a gift of four free dual format prinubraille books to every young braille reader who joins the Clearvision library. The scheme was initiated by our Patron, author Anne Fine, during her period as Children's Laureate, We have not found a grantmaker to support this fund this year, but continue to seek funders able to give this deeply-valued gift to our borrowers. We retain a protected fund on behalf of the Moon Forum, to enable us to write and distribute the Moon Mag magazine. This supports the aims of the Moon Forum to promote Moon as an invaluable alternative for those who cannot learn braille. Due to the closure of HMP Full Sutton's braille unit, from whom we previously commissioned the Moon Mag, there has been no payment made from this fund this year, as we have yet to find an
alternative transcriber of Moon font. We continue to seek other providers to enable us to restart this sen11. Our Reserves Policy: Clearvision is a small charity, growing to meet demand, investing in its online catalogue and in the diversification of its income sources. To achieve this and to mitigate the risk of only having a small staff (which makes us vulnerable to long-term illness or injury) and to unpredictable external factors, we have adopted a cautious reserves policy. This policy is to hold in reserve one year of our projected annual operating costs, £144,835 for 2025126. At the end of 2024125 we have come reasonably close to achieving this goal, which we consider satisfactory given the current fundraising climate. Investment Pollcy: the Trustees have considered the mosl appropriate policy for investing funds and do not see fit to invest in the stock market because of the high risks associated with fluctuating economic market conditions. Instead we keep some surplus funds in short- to-mediurn term deposits with our bankers, which can be accessed readily. To maximise interest, £41,665 is currently held in a thirty-day noti Clubs & Charities Account. The Trustees are aware of the desirability of spreading savings between different banking groups. Rlsk re ortln and res onslblll the responsibility for the management and control of the charity rests with the trustees, who are fully involved in the key aspects of the risk management process. Risks are considered in all aspects of Clearvision's work and include governance, operational, financial and Complian risks, as well as risks arising from external factors. Potential risk areas and mitigation strategies (induding the Reserves Policy) are reviewed a minimum of once a year. The Trustees are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to any significant risks. We are pleased to confirm that there are no serious incidents which should have brought to the attention of the Charity Commission but have not been. Signed by on behalf of the Clearvision Truslees on 27th June 2025.