Vinchel Foundation
At a glance
Key takeaways
- The Foundation's stated purposes centre on blindness and visual impairment, including support for families and carers, education, and scientific knowledge of its causes and treatment, so work in these areas is the clearest fit.
- Its stated focus is England, Wales, the UK and internationally, as reported in other published sources.
- Recorded grants include £41,500 to a youth programme and £160,000 towards a school refurbishment, and a £500,000 research agreement was made with Oxford Brookes University, but the annual report gives no grant range, so size a request to a specific project.
- No application process is published, so contact the Foundation through the details shown before preparing a request, and with no process published, nothing shows how competitive it is.
- Organisations whose work falls outside blindness, visual impairment, families and carers, education and vision science are unlikely to fit its stated purposes.
Overview
Vinchel Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1162681).
Vinchel Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1162681). It makes grants to organisations supporting people who are blind or visually impaired, and to their families and carers, and it advances education and scientific knowledge of the causes and treatment of blindness. Its annual giving was £701,500, per the annual report, and recorded recipients include New College Worcester, Victa Children Ltd and Oxford Brookes University.
What they fund
Priority Areas
The Foundation makes grants to organisations supporting people who are blind or visually impaired. Its stated purposes include relieving blind and visually impaired people and their families and carers, advancing education for people who are blind or visually impaired, and advancing scientific knowledge of the causes and treatment of blindness. A partner describes its support as extending to people in the UK and internationally, alongside their families and carers, with a focus on education for blind and vision-impaired young people and scientific knowledge of the causes and treatments of vision impairment. Its recorded recipients include organisations supporting blind people, a specialist school, a youth programme and university research.
Themes
- Blindness and visual impairment
- Families and carers
- Education
- Scientific knowledge
Geographic Focus
Priority: England; Wales; UK; internationally. (as reported in other published sources)
How to apply
No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.
Where they fund
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Grants
The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:
- Oxford Brookes University · to support its research into genetic eye diseases£500,000year to 31 December 2025
- New College Worcester · to support the refurbishment of the Vinchel Lodge£160,000year to 31 December 2025
- Victa Children Ltd · to support its Youth programme£41,500year to 31 December 2025
Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts.
Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 31 December 2021 | £136,647 | £209,241 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2021 |
| year to 31 December 2022 | £126,551 | £174,680 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2022 |
| year to 31 December 2023 | £228,393 | £259,960 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2023 |
| year to 31 December 2024 | £172,925 | £23,120 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2024 |
| year to 31 December 2025 | £166,713 | £781,547 | £701,500 | Accounts for year to 31 December 2025 |
- Grants paid, year to 31 December 2025: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.
Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.
Sources
Registers and filings
Other sources
- connect.ncw.co.uk/news/fundraising-news/115/115-Vinchel-Lodge-Official-Opening · read on 30 October 2026; a page about the charity on another site
- Annual report (year to 31 December 2025)
Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.
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Applying to Vinchel Foundation?
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Contact
- TGW Law, 4 HILL STREET, LONDON, W1J 5NEsource
- vinchelfoundation.com
Applying to Vinchel Foundation?
Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
No credit card required
Contact
- TGW Law, 4 HILL STREET, LONDON, W1J 5NEsource
- vinchelfoundation.com