GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL
- Charity number
- 1150137
- Status
- Registered
- Type
- Other
- Registered
- 12 December 2012
- Latest income
- £12,176,749
- Latest spending
- £13,110,337
- Accounts to
- 31 March 2025
- Address
- General Optical Council, Part Floor 29, 1 Canada Square, LONDON
What it does
We are the regulator for the optical professions in the UK. Our statutory role is to protect and promote the health and safety of members of the public by promoting high standards of professional education, conduct and performance among our registrants. We currently register around 26,000 optometrists, dispensing opticians, student opticians and optical businesses.
In the charity's own words, as filed with the Commission.
About this record
From the Charity Commission's register of England and Wales, republished nightly under the Open Government Licence. The Commission does not regulate Scotland or Northern Ireland, which keep their own registers. Figures are as the charity last filed them, not as audited by us — browse the whole register, including the charities removed from it.