ROYAL LEICESTERSHIRE, RUTLAND AND WYCLIFFE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND (THE)
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-25 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-11
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
+67.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
-57.6% vs 2024
Employees
157
-44.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £7,824,000 | £3,911,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£1,195,000 | -£1,857,000 | |
| Cash | £737,000 | £1,236,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,224,000 | £1,366,000 | |
| Net assets | £3,224,000 | £1,366,000 | |
| Equity | £3,224,000 | £1,366,000 | |
| Average employees | 282 | 157 | |
| Wages | £5,281,000 | £3,247,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -15.3% | -47.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 19.3% | 16.1% | |
| Current ratio | -2.09x | -5.62x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Sayer Vincent LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Given the continuing efforts of the Board and the Leadership Team, the Trustees have every expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- ROYAL LEICESTERSHIRE, RUTLAND AND WYCLIFFE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND (THE) · parent
- Leicester Blind Publications Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In September 2024 we sadly said goodbye to our residents and staff at our care homes Applegarth and Kathleen Rutland in Leicester Forest East.”
- “As trustees, we made the decision to exit residential care altogether, and focus on supporting more people affected by sight loss across the region.”
- “Following the transfer of The New Wycliffe Home in March 2024 we still faced significant cost challenges for our residential services.”
- “In September 2024 we closed The Kathleen Rutland and Applegarth Homes based in Leicester Forest East, leaving one home, Simmins Crescent operational.”
- “We took the very difficult decision to close our shop in Syston in October 2024 but this allowed us to consolidate our offering within the three remaining shops.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 92 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENHAM, Chris | Director | 2025-08-01 | Jan 1972 | British |
| GIGA, Arjan Malde | Director | 2024-02-12 | Jan 1979 | British |
| KAZI, Aadil, Dr | Director | 2023-02-01 | Jan 1986 | British |
| LINDSAY, James Francis | Director | 2025-08-27 | Oct 1967 | British |
| MARTIN, Wendy Elizabeth | Director | 2025-11-21 | May 1948 | British |
| SMALLEY, Phillip Andrew | Director | 2023-04-11 | Sep 1964 | British |
| VOLLER, Jean | Director | 2019-12-12 | Apr 1955 | British |
| WILKINSON, Meredith Ria, Dr | Director | 2023-10-10 | Jan 1985 | British |
Show 92 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIFFEY, Gordon Edward | Secretary | 2001-03-16 | 2006-08-18 |
| GIGA, Arjan Malde | Secretary | 2024-06-27 | 2025-07-03 |
| GILFILLAN-SPIKINGS, Natalie Lily | Secretary | 2022-08-16 | 2024-06-21 |
| HOATH, Susan Julia Marjorie | Secretary | 2021-06-01 | 2023-09-20 |
| KIDALS, Richard | Secretary | 2007-10-13 | 2008-11-28 |
| LEWIS, John Robert | Secretary | 2008-11-28 | 2016-01-31 |
| PARKINSON, Joseph Philip | Secretary | — | 2001-03-16 |
| PEARCE, Jenny Susan | Secretary | 2006-08-18 | 2007-10-13 |
| REES-JONES, Glyn Daniel | Secretary | 2017-10-12 | 2020-09-30 |
| AHMAD, Haseeb | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2024-03-13 |
| AITKEN, Rose Mary | Director | 2008-03-11 | 2014-09-22 |
| ALEXANDER, Lilias Margaret Agnes, Dr | Director | 1993-01-12 | 2000-11-14 |
| ALLEN, John Grant | Director | 1997-02-11 | 2000-06-08 |
| ASHBY, Nicola Jane, Dr | Director | 2023-08-08 | 2024-02-12 |
| BANCROFT, Neville Denis | Director | 1993-01-12 | 1995-11-11 |
| BELL, Margaret Edith Winifred | Director | 1992-02-10 | 1996-11-04 |
| BELTON, Lynda Elsie | Director | 1999-12-10 | 2012-10-13 |
| BHOJANI, Mohammed Jabir | Director | 2015-04-22 | 2019-03-28 |
| BRIGGS, Raymond Philip | Director | 1998-10-06 | 2002-02-07 |
| BURTON, Tesni | Director | 2024-04-08 | 2025-07-01 |
| CARLIN, Geoffrey Douglas | Director | — | 2001-11-02 |
| CAUSER, Jean | Director | — | 1991-08-12 |
| CHARMAN, Michael | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| CHENNELL, Jean Alice | Director | — | 2005-10-15 |
| CRESSWELL, Paul Richard | Director | 2004-03-09 | 2009-09-29 |
| CROMBIE, Alexander Llewellyn Wallace | Director | — | 2008-10-11 |
| CYHAN, Patricia Gina Adelina | Director | 2011-07-19 | 2021-12-02 |
| DATTANI, Urvashi Dilip | Director | 2010-07-20 | 2018-07-26 |
| DAY, Eric Charles | Director | 1995-11-14 | 2005-10-11 |
| DISLEY, Susan Venetia | Director | 2012-03-28 | 2018-09-27 |
| DUDLEY-SMITH, Eric | Director | — | 1994-09-19 |
| EGGLESTON, Jane | Director | 2001-04-10 | 2002-04-01 |
| EMBRY, Brian Ernest | Director | — | 1998-04-01 |
| GLANVILLE, Andrew Frederick | Director | 2009-10-06 | 2013-07-19 |
| GODBER, John James | Director | 2013-09-20 | 2022-11-24 |
| HAILSTONE, Thomas Robert, Dr | Director | 2004-06-08 | 2010-11-01 |
| HARROP, Anthony John | Director | 2014-03-04 | 2022-11-24 |
| HAZELDINE, Kenneth | Director | — | 2001-04-14 |
| HESKETH, Alan | Director | 1994-06-14 | 2003-08-24 |
| HICKLING, Wendy Elizabeth | Director | — | 1994-11-20 |
| HILL, Roy Alan | Director | 2008-03-11 | 2021-08-26 |
| HOGAN, Robert Edward | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2024-03-19 |
| HOSEGOOD, Louisa | Director | 2016-09-29 | 2019-12-12 |
| HUSSAIN, Asaf | Director | 2002-02-11 | 2003-02-21 |
| INGMAN, Ruth Margaret | Director | 2021-06-17 | 2022-06-01 |
| INGMAN, Ruth | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2020-06-30 |
| JAMESON, Arthur William | Director | — | 1995-10-17 |
| JAMESON, Jonathan | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2024-08-22 |
| JARVIS, Edna Constance | Director | — | 1992-10-13 |
| KAVANAGH, Joanne Clare | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2023-04-16 |
| KENNEDY, Madeleine Elizabeth | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2024-02-23 |
| KHAN, Mohamed Hasanuddin | Director | 1995-11-14 | 2002-02-11 |
| KHANNA, Krishan Gopal | Director | — | 1991-11-12 |
| KIND, Alan Orson, Councillor | Director | 1993-08-10 | 1997-09-09 |
| LANGFORD, Jennifer Ann | Director | 2023-08-08 | 2024-10-17 |
| LEGGE, William | Director | 2021-06-17 | 2023-04-13 |
| LINNETT, Michael John | Director | 1998-03-10 | 2010-11-20 |
| LOVE, Gary | Director | 2008-12-09 | 2013-09-18 |
| MAAS, Douglas Edward | Director | — | 1993-05-06 |
| MANN, William Merton | Director | 1992-02-10 | 2008-10-11 |
| MASON, George | Director | 1992-06-09 | 1994-02-09 |
| MCNEELANCE, June Rosalie | Director | 1999-02-09 | 2002-04-01 |
| MOLD, John Kenneth | Director | 1992-02-10 | 2006-10-14 |
| MORRIS, Jean Louise | Director | 1997-02-11 | 2002-04-01 |
| NEGUS, Brian, Dr | Director | 2006-02-14 | 2013-09-18 |
| NEWHAM, Rebecca Alice | Director | 2024-06-18 | 2024-07-04 |
| PARSONS, Veronica Anne | Director | 2006-04-11 | 2018-03-29 |
| PEARSON, Hugh Michael | Director | 2014-06-25 | 2020-03-31 |
| PEY, Tom, Dr | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2019-09-26 |
| PRATT, Roger John | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2023-04-21 |
| PULLEN, Anna Christina May | Director | — | 1997-09-09 |
| RENE, Avandale Lewis Clayton | Director | 2003-05-13 | 2012-09-20 |
| RIYAIT, Balwant Singh | Director | 2002-11-12 | 2014-04-26 |
| RYAN, Martin | Director | — | 1997-06-01 |
| RYB, Paul Daniel | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2023-04-11 |
| SANGHANI, Maladevi | Director | 2004-02-11 | 2007-03-13 |
| SCOTT, Rebecca Jane | Director | 2023-10-10 | 2025-11-24 |
| SHUFFLEBOTHAM, Roger John | Director | — | 1994-07-27 |
| SMITH, Geoffrey Edwin | Director | — | 1991-10-22 |
| SMITH, Isabel Mary | Director | — | 2008-10-11 |
| SMITH, Keith Malcolm | Director | 2010-04-30 | 2013-09-18 |
| SMITH, Keith Malcolm | Director | 2010-04-30 | 2010-10-19 |
| SOOD, Manjula Paul | Director | 1997-02-11 | 1999-09-14 |
| SUBEDAR, Farook | Director | 1993-01-12 | 1997-09-09 |
| SUTTON, Ivor George | Director | 1995-11-14 | 2001-04-14 |
| SYMINGTON, James Martin | Director | — | 1993-05-11 |
| TAGG, Pauline | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2023-04-11 |
| TANNA, Natubhai | Director | 1998-03-10 | 2002-02-01 |
| TAYLOR, Andrew Kemp | Director | 2010-09-21 | 2013-09-18 |
| THOMAS, Rosemary Meryl | Director | 1997-02-11 | 2002-04-01 |
| THOMPSON, Francis Brian | Director | — | 1992-03-24 |
| TOMAS, Gustavo Santos | Director | 2023-08-08 | 2024-03-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 288 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-08-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-28 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-50%
£7,824,000 £3,911,000
-
Cash
+67.7%
£737,000 £1,236,000
-
Net assets
-57.6%
£3,224,000 £1,366,000
-
Employees
-44.3%
282 157
-
Wages
-38.5%
£5,281,000 £3,247,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers