Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

CAMBRIDGESHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION 

To provide support and facilities for Deaf Persons in Cambridgeshire through social, advisory and recreational projects to assist them to be part of the whole community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age
Established: 27 years

www.cambsdeaf.org

office@cambsdeaf.org

01223246237

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UN SDGs
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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£1,428£1,435£-7£15£1,220£1,199104683
31/03/22£1,068£1,101£-33£814£1,086£1,04811.43933
31/03/21£1,094£985£109£10£1,117£1,067133420
31/03/20£724£726£-3£0£958£95115.72715
31/03/19£447£495£-48n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18£362£394£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£274£282£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£220£223£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£155£205£-50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£145£152£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£134£115£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£147£148£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£147£148£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£141£150£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£138£155£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£166£138£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£99£91£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£63£80£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£91£62£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£62£61£1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 10 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 46 employees
  • 83 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Peterborough City,

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£145,892
DCMS£117,270
Tudor Trust£79,000
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£21,950
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Feel the Force Day
£16,950 10/10/2023
to host Feel the Force Day, an accessible event for people with disabilities and their carers, with a focus on addressing health inequalities and improving health outcomes
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer and Community
£126,694 18/03/2022
The project is using funding to continue the Befriending Project which provides support to the most isolated members of the Deaf Community in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. The grant would also ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BSL Climate Change Information Programmes
£9,850 19/11/2021
This group will use the funds to produce eight live video phone-in programmes in British Sign Language improving accessibility to information and resources on climate change for deaf people. These ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£2,000 19/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association (COVID19 Grant)
£2,000 07/12/2020
2
as emergency funding to meet essential needs of members of the Deaf community in Cambridgeshire during the Coronavirus pandemic
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£25,000 08/10/2020
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 ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£92,270 29/07/2020
"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 ....more
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£5,000 14/04/2020
3
to continue to support 120 isolated, deaf people in the current crisis by providing online 1-to-1 and group services and through providing PPE for volunteers who are delivering medicine and food
National Lottery Community Fund - Coronavirus provision
£9,348 09/04/2020
4
The organisation will use funding to run its befriending service and deliver supplies to people living with deafness. The project aims to keep people connected and supported and reduce isolation ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£4,530 26/11/2019
3
Freedom Programme'; programme to help deaf women who have been victims of domestic abuse
Tudor Trust - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£75,000 19/08/2019
36
over three years as unrestricted funding for an organisation supporting Deaf people across Cambridgeshire
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 24/07/2019
Revenue/core costs.
Comic Relief - Sustainability Fund 2
£39,970 13/02/2019
3
The Sustainability Fund grant would go towards converting office spaceand making improvements to our building in Cambridge. This will allow us to raise more money from rental income so that we can ....more
Sport England - Physical Well-being Project.
£8,140 04/09/2018
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Physical Well-being Project.. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 21/02/2018
Advice and information, training and support for deaf people.
Comic Relief - Increasing the sustainability of the Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£39,757 30/11/2016
24
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association (CDA) is the only organisation for deaf people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It runs activities to raise awareness of the needs of deaf people and help them to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
£32,000 19/09/2011
the salary of the Community Manager
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-77
  • CHALKY WAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Qualified Teacher Of The Deaf
  • PAUL MCCLOSKEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired Engineering Consultant
  • PHILIP KAMPS (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Youth Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/05/1997, number: 1062578
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/04/1997, number: 03353070
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
  • 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; AR17: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 22 days late, AR07: 115 days late, AR06: 769 days late, AR05: 33 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from CAMBRIDGESHIRE HEARING HELP on 23/05/2022
Main office

8 ROMSEY TERRACE
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 3NH

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF DEAF PERSONS BY PROMOTING THEIR SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE PERSONS ORDINARILY RESIDENT WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF ELY WHICH FALLS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE PERSONS ORDINARILY RESIDENT WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF ELY WHICH FALLS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING ;- [1] TO PROVIDE RECREATION AND SOCIAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS ; [2] . TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING SPECIAL AIDS AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE FOR SUCH PERSONS IN ORDER TO HELP LIVE INDEPENDENT LIVES; [3]. TO LIAISE WITH ACCOMMODATION AND HOUSING BODIES TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION /SHELTERED HOUSING FOR SUCH PERSONS ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS; [4] TO PROVIDE RELIEF IN CASES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS OR THEIR FAMILIES; [5] TO PROVIDE COUNSELING AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS OR THEIR FAMILIES; [6] TO PROVIDE AVAILABLE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORKS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ; AND [7]. TO PROVIDE HEARING PERSONS TO SUPPORT DEAF PERSONS IN THE PURSUIT OF THEIR LEGAL RIGHT

Defined Area of Benefit:

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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