Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

CENTRE OF SIGN-SIGHT-SOUND (Y GANOLFAN ARWYDDO-GOLWG-SAIN) 

Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound (COS)With a purpose of "Improving Quality of Life through Equality" COS supports Deaf people and people living with sensory loss and the professionals and organisations who work with them. Promoting a world where sensory loss does not limit, preclude or stigmatise people from achieving their full unique potential.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

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£682£511£171£0£819£74917.61411
31/03/22£659£442£216£0£648£49813.51412
31/03/21£584£432£153£0£432£3509.71410
31/03/20£534£494£40£4£279£2195.31312
31/03/19£411£460£-49n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£460£480£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£507£576£-69£5£307£2224.6200
31/03/16£435£445£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£504£423£81£15£386£912.6120
31/03/14£428£481£-53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£516£492£24£17£359£3528.6170
31/03/12£564£476£88£18£335£2606.6160
31/03/11£436£466£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£431£422£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£457£406£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£367£349£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£445£356£88£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£321£326£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£334£305£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£295£257£38£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 17.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 15.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 29 years

www.centreofsignsightsound.org.uk

info@signsightsound.org.uk

07719410355

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 14 employees
  • 11 volunteers

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
National Lottery Community Fund£455,010
Steve Morgan Foundation£20,161
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
CAF£4,600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Wales COL - Cost Of Living Information Advice and Assistance
£97,749 18/05/2023
The Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound will develop a bespoke Information Advice and Assistance service where people with a sensory loss can contact them in the language of their choice to access the type of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Sensory Awareness
£298,235 22/07/2021
36
Using £298235 over three years The Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound in Conwy will work with the sensory loss community throughout North Wales to develop awareness training. This will be accessed by staff ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound
£20,161 07/04/2021
for the Covid Information, Advice and Assistance Service
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 13/11/2020
Disability Access
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Accessible COVID-19 Information Project
£59,026 14/05/2020
12
The Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound have received £59026 to provide support to people with sensory loss to enable them to access information about COVID-19 available services and other useful information ....more
CAF - Grant to Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound (COS)
£4,600 01/05/2020
3
Grant to Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound (COS) to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Conwy's Massive Mingle Mission
£9,991 15/01/2019
12
Project Summary :_x000D_ Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound in Colwyn Bay will provide a weekly drop in for deaf people, and sign language interpreters so they can fully participate in activities and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Deaf Access Project
£143,752 20/05/2015
36
Deaf Access Project
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to North Wales Deaf Association
£14,800 13/08/2014
The charity will become an Agored Accredited centre. It will register as a Signature approved centre. Funding will also allow it to register and seek to attain PQASSO level 2 status and it will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to North Wales Deaf Association
£20,000 31/05/2011
the salary of a part-time Employment Officer and associated costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/07/1995, number: 1048017
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/08/1994, number: 02959589
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ABERCONWY TALKING NEWSPAPER on 03/04/2023
Main office

North Wales Sensory Loss Centre
77 Conway Road
Colwyn Bay
LL29 7LN

Objectives

The relief of people who are deaf, blind, suffer visual or hearing impairment or are disabled and have a physical or mental impairment that has a long-term negative effect on their ability to carry out normal daily activities by the promotion, development and the provision of appropriate facilities, services and resources and in particular, but not exclusively, by promoting, developing and cause to be provided appropriate facilities, services and resources to improve the quality of life and equality of opportunities for people with visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical or mental disability

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN NORTH WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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