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Profile of registrant

Sightsavers International

Identification number in the register: 14449907621-41
Registration date: 06/01/12 12:16:24

The information on this organisation was last modified on 10/12/12 11:20:57
The date of the last annual update was 10/12/12 11:20:57


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Sightsavers International
Acronym:
Legal status: Registered Charity
Website address: http://www.sightsavers.org/default.html

Sections

Section: III - Non-governmental organisations
and more precisely: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Ms  Caroline Harper
Position: CEO

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Ms  Charlotte Matthews
Position: Parliamentary Adviser

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 0 Grosvenor House Bolnore Road
Haywards Heath RH16 4BX
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone number: (+1444) 446600
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information: n/a

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: Sightsavers is an international charity which works with partners to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world. Our vision is a world where nobody is blind from avoidable causes, and where people who are visually impaired participate equally in society.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 1
Complementary information: Only the Parliamentary Adviser is engaged in lobbying activity

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


Potential activities include meetings with MEPs, Commission staff and other European Union employees; events held at the EP; attendance at meetings and conferences; input into consultations; provision of briefings for committee meetings and plenary debates

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Budget
  • Climate Action
  • Development
  • External Relations
  • Humanitarian Aid

Structure

Total number of members that are natural persons: 120
Number of member organisations: 0
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):
  • IRELAND
  • ITALY
  • UNITED KINGDOM

  • BANGLADESH
  • BELIZE
  • BENIN
  • BURKINA FASO
  • CAMEROON
  • GAMBIA
  • GHANA
  • GUINEA
  • GUINEA BISSAU
  • GUYANA
  • HAITI
  • INDIA
  • JAMAICA
  • KENYA
  • LIBERIA
  • MALI
  • NIGERIA
  • PAKISTAN
  • SAINT LUCIA
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SRI LANKA
  • SUDAN
  • TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
Complementary information:

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.





Financial data

Financial year: 01/2010 - 12/2010
Total budget: 190,818,100
of which public financing: 3,727,900
- from European sources:
- Procurement:
- Grants: 2,380,400
- from national sources: 941,600
- from local/regional sources: 245,300
OPEC : 35,200
Global Fund : 125,400
from other sources: 187,090,200
- donations: 186,292,700
- contributions from members:
Other NGOs/organisations : 301,400
Investment, interest, other income : 496,100
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: < 50000  €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.