Overall GiG Score: 4 ?
Finance Score: -9
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEAF PEOPLE 

To help people confronting deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss to live the life they choose. We enable them to take control oftheir lives and remove the barriers in their way.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent 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:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 61 years
(75 years as a company)

www.rnid.org.uk

information@rnid.org.uk

02073594442

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£14,517£13,795£722£3,010£4,757£3,3542.9160142
31/03/22£23,165£21,889£1,276£2,946£5,058£3,4101.9411155
31/03/21£34,500£36,008£-1,508£4,508£7,346£4,1851.4899700
31/03/20£42,702£41,509£1,193£5,087£12,587£9,0602.6970751
31/03/19£39,550£43,883£-4,333£5,857£6,232£3,3930.99851,253
31/03/18£40,060£42,719£-2,659£3,362£10,068£7,4592.18000
31/03/17£40,293£42,247£-1,954£4,245£10,784£8,4562.48930
31/03/16£38,380£38,856£-476£4,162£14,960£12,5663.98010
31/03/15£37,131£38,279£-1,148£4,776£10,495£8,1902.66850
31/03/14£47,090£38,825£8,265£4,938£12,020£8,6342.77200
31/03/13£37,426£38,279£-853£3,727£5,164£3260.17400
31/03/12£37,533£39,606£-2,073£3,875£7,281£2,8210.97480
31/03/11£41,023£40,422£601£3,753£15,481£10,5643.17600
31/03/10£47,258£44,626£2,632£4,435£14,083£11,11237980
31/03/09£46,843£47,884£-1,041£3,612£11,545£7,83728780
31/03/08£49,836£45,866£3,970£3,380£16,786£13,0353.49460
31/03/07£49,213£49,275£-62£3,564£12,239£10,4872.61,0410
31/03/06£46,015£46,898£-883£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£44,482£43,988£494£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£42,032£41,537£495£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 21.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 71%
Reserves/Spending: 2.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 160 employees
  • 142 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department of Health£212,060
Masonic Trust£169,950
DCMS£99,675
Wolfson Foundation£49,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to RNID
£49,900 07/12/2022
Purchase of tablets to support free hearing checks particularly to older people and those in care homes across the UK
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 26/02/2021
RNID’s Information Line
National Lottery Community Fund - Hearing Aid Support - 'Click and Collect'
£9,785 22/01/2021
5
This project will pilot a “click and collect” hearing aid support service to ensure that hearing aid users can access free and essential maintenance of their hearing aids in a COVID-19 secure way ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£99,675 05/10/2020
"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 ....more
Department of Health - Royal National Institute of Deaf People
£212,060 01/04/2020
funding to selected disabilities charities for support in respect of COVID
Masonic Trust - MCF Medical Research
£169,950 12/06/2019
A grant to fund 2 PhD studentships to conduct research into Hearing Loss
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 10/05/2017
Reducing Isolation:supporting people with hearing loss
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Action on Hearing Loss
£85,300 20/03/2017
36
£85,300 over three years (£25,800; £29,100; £30,400) towards staffing and operational costs of the Hear to Inform and Connect project for older people in London.
Masonic Trust - Improving the Understanding and Diagnosis of Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
£79,500 19/10/2016
Development of new diagnostic tests for Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), a disorder where the brain appears not to be able to process sounds.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hear to Inform and Connect – supporting older people with hearing loss
£972,681 16/09/2016
36
This project will be expanded to provide vital information services that enable isolated older people to better manage their hearing loss across London, the South East, Scotland and Northern Ireland. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Hear to Inform and Support' - Devon & Cornwall
£394,696 27/07/2016
60
This project will support people living in rural communities across Devon and Cornwall with hearing loss, to help reduce their isolation. Volunteers will offer regular advice on specialist equipment ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hear to Inform and Connect
£30,000 20/08/2015
15
This is a project to scale up the group’s volunteer-led face-to-face information service across the UK. This supports older people to identify and manage hearing loss, and increase their ....more
Nesta - AC00486
£10,000 02/07/2015
3
Inclusive Technology Prize programme grant to Action on Hearing Loss (RNID) Grant Ref AC00486
National Lottery Community Fund - Moving On
£442,328 11/03/2015
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - The Bionic Ear Outreach Project
£16,135 22/10/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Hear to Help Cymru
£499,928 28/11/2012
36
The project will recruit and train volunteers to provide hearing aid support for vulnerable people across Wales, through drop in sessions and home visits. The project will establish and deliver 12 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - North East Rural Volunteer Outreach Information Project
£299,630 17/10/2012
60
This project is to support deaf and hard of hearing people to take action on their hearing loss to and to reduce their isolation and increase their confidence. The Royal National Institute for Deaf ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'In Touch' Project
£499,974 11/06/2012
60
Formerly known as RNID, the group will use their grant to support isolated & lonely older people who are deaf or hard of hearing, helping them adapt to their hearing loss & to improve their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Breaking Down the Barriers
£10,000 09/06/2011
12
The group will use the grant to run deaf awareness training sessions to local community/voluntary groups across Northern Ireland.
National Lottery Community Fund - Meet Hear
£544,323 29/03/2011
72
The project will support older people with hearing loss and those at risk of experiencing loneliness to overcome the barriers of social exclusion by providing a mutually supportive relationship to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-62
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/11/1962, number: 207720
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/05/1948, number: 00454169
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE GUTHRIE ESSAME CHARITABLE TRUST on 14/05/2021
  • Asset transfer in from JOHN MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL FUND on 24/11/2021
Main office

Brightfield Business Hub
Bakewell Road
Orton Southgate
Peterborough
England
PE2 6XU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF DEAFNESS AND THE BETTER TREATMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING (WHICH EXPRESSION APPLIES TO ALL THOSE WHOSE HEARING IS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIRED), AND GENERALLY TO PROMOTE, SAFEGUARD AND PROTECT THE WELFARE OF SUCH PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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