Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

EAST SUSSEX HEARING

TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND DEAFBLIND PEOPLE AND THEIR CARERS IN EAST SUSSEX
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£345£380£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£234£344£-110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£255£282£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£287£279£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£250£278£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£223£245£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£255£242£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£266£291£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£396£312£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£344£343£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£329£311£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£308£306£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£314£214£100n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£219£183£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£160£147£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£137£135£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£176£128£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£129£111£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£97£50£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

www.eshrc.org

mail@eshrc.org

01323722505

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Deaf people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Sussex Community Foundation£18,646
DCMS£8,675
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Henry Smith Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Ears' to The King!
£550 28/03/2023
The funding will be used host a street party at the East Sussex Hearing centre on 3rd May 2023. The project aims to provide visitors practical ongoing help and support to live their very best lives independently with hearing loss.
Sussex Community Foundation - East Sussex Hearing outreach
£10,000 25/02/2022
Funding was provided to enable them to continue to deliver their existing services and launch their ‘Be Smart’ project supporting hearing impaired people to access and utilise technology via their smart devices.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£4,000 18/11/2020
9
Funding was provided to update demonstration equipment of assistive devices both at the Centre and on an outreach vehicle. In addition it will pay for an extra lipreading/signing course.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 13/11/2020
CLIVe II
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,675 24/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£5,000 11/05/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a charity providing support and advice for people with a hearing impairment in East Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£4,646 27/04/2020
Funding request for IT and operational costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - IT DEVELOPMENT FOR VOLUNTEERS
£10,000 18/10/2018
12
The organisation will use funding to improve IT equipment and support volunteers to improve their IT skills. The project aims to increase its capacity of outreach work, enabling the organisation to reach out to more people, improve cohesion and ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£5,000 20/11/2017
11
East Sussex HRC provide advice, information, training and outreach for the hearing impaired. Funding was provided to deliver a 12-week course for people who have come to them for information and advice about hearing impairment.
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 19/10/2016
Support, adaptive technology, and advice for Deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people in East Sussex.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£10,000 11/10/2016
Sign of the Times: War Poetry for Deaf & Hearing-Impaired People
Dunhill Medical Trust - Total Communication Project
£14,860 06/10/2016
12
To help older people with deteriorating hearing to prepare for the onset of deafness
National Lottery Community Fund - Five-Minute Fix-it
£10,000 15/10/2014
12
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£30,000 29/05/2014
The charity provides support services for D/deaf people as well as those that have multiple sensory loss. The funding will pay for a project to support Deafblind people across East Sussex.
Dunhill Medical Trust - Mobile Clinic for Older People who are Deafblind
£10,000 06/12/2012
New service for older people who are deafblind using a purpose-built bus to take services to rural isolated communities
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
£9,500 12/09/2012
towards one year's running costs of a pilot of an outreach project for deafblind people in East Sussex
National Lottery Community Fund - Someone to Listen
£10,000 25/08/2011
11
This project in East Sussex will use funding to provide basic counselling skills training to volunteers, designed to benefit people with hearing impairments. This will enable the group to provide counselling services to hearing impaired people who ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 63-77
  • ADRIAN RICHARD CARTER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired Solicitor
  • DAVID KEITH BONE (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Engineer
  • DR JO MARTYR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired Gp
  • DR KAREN NORWOOD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • GILLIAN MORRIS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • SUSAN JAYNE THURSFIELD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/12/2003, number: 1101140
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/03/2003, number: 04716514
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR07: 48 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

C/O Caladine
Chantry House
22 Upperton Road
Eastbourne
East Sussex

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE DEAF, HEARING IMPAIRED OR DEAFBLIND RESIDENT IN EAST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT AND OTHER SERVICES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

EAST SUSSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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