A spokeswoman for the RNIB has confirmed that the charity is currently undertaking consultations with staff, and expects to make fewer than 100 people redundant, as the organisation makes a bid to be more “sustainable”.
According to its last set of accounts published with the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 March 2017, the RNIB had an income of £119.1m and spending of over £132.8m last year – an overall deficit of just over £13m.
In a bid to “make a bigger difference to blind and partially sighted people in an efficient and sustainable way”, the RNIB has confirmed it is in consultation with staff members over their roles at the charity.
While she would not give an exact figure for the number of staff numbers affected by these consultations, she said the charity estimated “the figure for the number of staff leaving through redundancy will be less than 100” and, of these, “we anticipate that more than a third will be on a voluntary basis”.
The spokeswoman said that the consultation process “is not yet complete” and that the charity was “currently working to identify alternative roles for colleagues at RNIB affected by the consultations”.
Unite has been contacted for a comment regarding the redundancies.
In early 2017, RNIB confirmed that it would be making as many as 200 staff members redundant as part of its merger with Action for Blind People.
Earlier this year, RNIB’s then chief executive Sally Harvey resigned abruptly in March, after Ofsted published a report raising “serious concerns” about the Pears Centre for Specialist Learning in Coventry, a residential setting for children and young people run by RNIB’s subsidiary, RNIB Charity.
A statutory inquiry was subsequently opened by the Charity Commission on 29 March.
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