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The Royal Victoria Trust for the Blind is a small charitable grant-giving trust set up in 1985 following the closure of the Royal Victoria School in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne. We fund non-statutory organisations and charities that work primarily for and with people with sight loss, with an income less than £500,000 per year, who are based in the North East of England, North Yorkshire and Cumbria.
For more details about our funding criteria, please see our ‘Applying for Funding’ page.
The Trust is administered by a small group of unpaid officers and voluntary trustees who either have sight loss themselves or have worked in the sight loss field. As such, we do not have any employees or premises, which is why we prefer contact by email in the first instance.
The Trust fund itself is managed by a local professional investment management company. The investment of this fund generates the interest that the Trust awards to organisations and groups in its area of benefit. The Trust neither solicits nor receives any other external funding and has no direct service users, other than the organisations and groups we award funding to.
