Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

DEAF CHOICES UK LIMITED

Deaf Choices UK aspires to give deaf children improved access to: LANGUAGE by empowering their families to make fully informed choices. LITERACY, by supporting their educators to access information, training and resources. We provide knowledge information and training around the unique benefits, concepts and skills of using Cued Speech. Our offer supports deaf children and those with SEND.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
31/03/23£346£360£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£287£273£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£275£287£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£249£284£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£255£225£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£229£200£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£175£147£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£91£138£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£140£149£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£182£153£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£170£142£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£190£219£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£169£193£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£190£172£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£152£168£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£242£198£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£198£192£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£178£152£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£100£89£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£82£90£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 45 years

www.deafchoicesuk.com

info@deafchoicesuk.com

01803712853

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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 services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young 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
National Lottery Community Fund£259,611
Henry Smith Charity£174,600
BBC Children in Need£122,402
The Aim Foundation£100,000
The Foyle Foundation£70,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
DCMS£11,530
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 10/05/2024
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£25,000 01/03/2024
towards the Love Reading project including the core costs of the Lead Choice Advisor and support costs
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Deaf Choices UK
£100,000 19/04/2023
12
Choices Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Language and Literacy for Life for deaf children 0-18
£232,792 29/03/2023
This project will use funding to deliver language and literacy support and resources to deaf children and young people (0-18 years) in Devon Cornwall Hertfordshire London Newcastle Leeds and North Yorkshire. The project will support deaf children ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 03/06/2022
24
Language and Literacy for Life for deaf babies and children 0 -18 years
Devon Community Foundation - Love Reading for early years deaf babies/children
£5,000 17/03/2022
Funding for the dissemination of our early years ‘Love Reading’ project which uses our own Cued Speech animated books (Nan-in-a-Van) for deaf babies/children and visual learners across Devon.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Cued Speech UK - 27/01/22
£1,500 17/02/2022
Core Funding
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£25,000 08/02/2022
towards the salary of the Training Lead
National Lottery Community Fund - Language and Literacy for Life for deaf children
£8,166 08/02/2022
Cued Speech UK Limited will continue to provide free Cued Speech training and family support packages in Torfaen and surrounding areas. £8166 will fund tuition travel and subsistence and venue costs.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£88,402 03/02/2022
This project will provide training for deaf children and their families using the CUED speech communication method. It will help to support language learning and communication, increase their literacy attainment and improve family relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Language and Literacy for Life for deaf children
£9,863 10/12/2021
The funding will be used to continue the delivery of free “Cued Speech” training and family support package for children that are deaf. The project aims to equip families to make informed choices and overcome language barriers experienced as a ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Cued Speech Association
£1,670 20/10/2021
purchase of IT equipment for a charity supporting children with disabilities in Devon
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£174,600 11/08/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary costs of three Cued Speech Regional Family Advisors at a project supporting parents of deaf babies and children across the UK.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 28/05/2021
24
Language and Literacy for Life for deaf babies and children 0 -18 years
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Cued Speech UK
£5,000 24/03/2021
Towards project costs of creating video versions of the Dandelion Books to enable deaf children to learn the basics of language. They develop an innate phonemic awareness and then use this visual memory of sounds to connect with written letters.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£30,000 17/12/2020
This project will provide communication-based activities for D/deaf children and young people. They will improve how they interact with others, improve their emotional wellbeing, and increase their literacy skills.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,530 14/08/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - The grant will fund training a Family Support Practitioner in Emotional Logic to support D/deaf children and young people with additional emotional needs as a result of covid-19 restrictions to better deal with their experiences.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 28/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Learning
£20,000 04/02/2020
towards core costs in 2020/21, specifically the salary of the Training Lead
National Lottery Community Fund - Language and Literacy for Life for deaf babies and children
£8,790 14/01/2020
12
Cued Speech Association UK will support parents with deaf children to communicate using Cued Speech in Torfaen through the mediums of Welsh and English. They will run activity days, provide online resources, support a parenting network, and create ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 08/03/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 05/12/2018
24
Language and Literacy for life
National Lottery Community Fund - 0 -18 Language and Literacy for Life
£9,900 24/10/2018
12
Project Summary :_x000D_ Cued Speech UK Limited who support deaf and hearing people in communicating using cues and lip reading, will use the grant to work with deaf children and their families in Torfaen to learn cued speech, therefore improving ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£20,000 30/07/2018
24
This project will fund speech and language support for deaf children and young people. They will have improved family relationships, improved self-confidence, and increased literacy skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - 0 - 3 (inc) language for deaf babies
£8,400 15/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to create family support groups that are designed to support children who have hearing impairments. The project aims to improve levels of wellbeing and enhance chances in life for children who have disabilities.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£113,500 13/06/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing speech therapy to babies with hearing impairments in Devon
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£87,414 02/03/2018
36
This project will provide training for deaf children and their families using the CUED speech communication method. It will help to support language learning and communication, increase their literacy attainment and improve family relationships.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£40,000 23/03/2016
24
Towards the core costs of its work providing information and training in Cued Speech to parents of deaf children and the professionals who support them.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£120,000 29/08/2012
Towards core costs associated with restructuring to enable a more sustainable future for the organisation.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£50,000 04/08/2010
24
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the project development/fundraiser post including recruitment, training, travel and IT costs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Cued Speech UK
£39,089 30/04/2008
12
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the CEO, administrator, co-ordinator, fundraiser and overhead costs to build capacity and maximise the longer term impact of Cued Speech Associations work.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-85
  • CHRISTINE HARDY (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Advocacy, Rights And Awareness Manager
  • JACOB PAUL TWOMEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Of Marketing
  • KENNETH GEORGE ORPIN Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Decorator
  • PETER GORDON BOWMAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • SARAH CELINE ELUMBA-HILL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Managing Director For Hill Top Brews Ltd
  • VICTORIA HENRY-MACKLIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: It Project Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/04/1980, number: 279523
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/02/1980, number: 01477997
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • 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 DEVON AND EXETER DEAF CHARITY on 17/09/2021
  • Asset transfer in from THE LONDON HOSPITAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY TRUST on 12/06/2023
  • Asset transfer in from PLYMOUTH DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY on 23/10/2024
Main office

The Boatshed
Steamer Quay Road
Totnes
TQ9 5AL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE DEVELOPMENT, STANDARDISATION, PROPAGATION, DISSEMINATION, TEACHING AND USE OF CUED SPEECH AS DESIGNED AND CONCEIVED BY DR ORIN CORNETT TO ENABLE THE DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE TO LEARN NOT ONLY LIP-READING IN ANY LANGUAGE BUT ALSO THE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE ITSELF. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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