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Company description
THE ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Royal Charter Company”. Incorporated on 19 December 1989; registered for 36 years. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 7 trade marks, 1 charity record.
This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- THE ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
- Company number
- RC000706
- Company type
- Royal Charter Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- NO ACCOUNTS FILED
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
Not suppliedNext accounts due
Not suppliedLast statement made up to
Not suppliedNext statement due
2 January 2017BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 76.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 65.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 76.0%
Earlier reporting years (6)
- 250 to 4991.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4993.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4990.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4995.2% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- THE ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 29 January 2026
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 4 February 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your front line staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
We monitored conditions through partner due diligence, contractual clauses, risk assessments, safeguarding checks, staff reporting mechanisms, and regular engagement with suppliers and local partners.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Change in policy Change in training Other
Demonstrated progress
Progress is demonstrated through defined KPIs, regular policy reviews, mandatory training completion, supplier and partner due-diligence tracking, and audit oversight. The statement also sets clear 2026 actions, including enhanced training, improved supply-chain mapping, and integration of modern-slavery risk reporting into the global audit cycle.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Risk of labour exploitation among workers engaged by local suppliers and partners operating in fragile, low-governance or low-income contexts where oversight and labour protections may be weaker.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Migrants Other vulnerable groups
- Location: Bangladesh Ghana India Kenya Mali Malawi Nigeria Sierra Leone Zambia Zimbabwe
- Mitigation: Sightsavers mitigates this risk through supplier and partner due diligence, mandatory Codes of Conduct, modern slavery risk assessments, enhanced training, audits, and ongoing monitoring. Escalation and remediation processes are in place, with further supply-chain mapping and training planned for 2026.
- Risk: Risk of forced, bonded or child labour within extended supply chains linked to high-risk sectors such as construction, security, logistics, agriculture, and temporary staffing services.
- Group: Women Children Other vulnerable groups
- Location: Bangladesh Ghana India Kenya Malawi Nigeria Sierra Leone Zimbabwe
- Mitigation: Sightsavers manages this risk through supplier and partner due diligence, Codes of Conduct, sector- and country-risk assessments, training, audits, and ongoing monitoring. Modern slavery indicators are embedded in partner reviews, with escalation and remediation processes in place and enhanced supply-chain mapping planned for 2026.
- Risk: Risk of vulnerability for temporary, migrant or informal workers supporting facilities, programme delivery or community-level activities through third-party providers.
- Location: Bangladesh Ghana India Kenya Malawi Nigeria Sierra Leone
- Mitigation: Sightsavers addresses this risk through third-party due diligence, Codes of Conduct, risk-based assessments, training, audits, and ongoing monitoring. Grievance, escalation and remediation mechanisms are in place, with further supplier engagement and enhanced oversight planned in 2026.
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Sightsavers
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 35,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 23 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2021
WILL AID
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 35,36,42
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 October 2025
SAVING SIGHT CHANGING LIVES
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 16,36
- Filed / designated
- 10 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 June 2027
the big eye opener
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 9,21,25,35,36,41,44
- Filed / designated
- 12 May 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 May 2015
The Big Eye Opener
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 9,21,25,35,36,41,44
- Filed / designated
- 12 May 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 May 2015
SIGHT SAVERS INTERNATIONAL
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 16,36
- Filed / designated
- 17 August 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 August 2010
SIGHT SAVERS INTERNATIONAL
Owner The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind · classes 16,36
- Filed / designated
- 9 April 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 April 2006
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
- Charity type
- Other
- Registered
- 22 September 1962
- Latest income
- £285,595,000
- Latest expenditure
- £288,464,000
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Disability
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- The General Public/mankind
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Seventy five per cent of blindness in the world is either avoidable or treatable. Sightsavers works with partners in developing countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. Our work alleviates poverty among poor and marginalised communities and thus helps to realise the internationally accepted Millenium Development Goals.
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07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
No SIC code was supplied in this bulk record.
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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