Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

BREAKTHROUGH (DEAF-HEARING INTEGRATION) 

deafPLUS is a registered medium-sized charity and company limited by guarantee working to encourage integration and equality between deaf/visually impaired and hearing people in all areas of life.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 25 years

www.deafplus.org

info@deafplus.org

020 7790 6147

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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£817£952£-136£34£403£1842.3282
31/03/22£899£926£-27£39£539£2303229
31/03/21£1,070£952£119£34£499£1822.3238
31/03/20£1,016£1,051£-35£22£380£1982.3277
31/03/19£939£1,005£-66£41£415£2803.32615
31/03/18*£965£1,068£-103£76£481£3303.7230
31/03/17£1,036£948£88£81£586£2803.5180
31/03/16£960£725£235£4£499£2464.1210
31/03/15£808£691£117£11£529£3706.4240
31/03/14£629£58£571£35£412£35773.5140
31/03/13£626£555£71£6£373£801.7150
31/03/12£624£567£57£9£301£901.9170
31/03/11£869£937£-68£16£244£2413.1210
31/03/10£1,209£942£267£7£313£2823.6230
31/03/09£656£644£12£171£46£460.9170
31/03/08£620£568£52£143£34£340.7190
31/03/07£525£444£81£76£-18£-18-0.5130
31/03/06£550£572£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£680£710£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£844£972£-128£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 2.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 28 employees
  • 2 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£499,821
Hackney Council£362,330
Henry Smith Charity£79,700
DCMS£53,692
Trust for London£41,303
City Bridge Trust£24,098
The London Community Foundation£9,633
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - National Advice Line
£499,821 03/05/2023
Funding will be used to continue a national advice line which supports Deaf and hard-of-hearing British Sign Language (BSL) users to manage life challenges like housing debt welfare education tax and ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Breakthrough (Deaf-Hearing Integration)
£53,000 13/10/2022
Providing social welfare advice to deaf and visually impaired residents.
Hackney Council - Grant to Breakthrough (Deaf-Hearing Integration)
£175,341 21/03/2022
Hackney advice Service
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to deafPLUS
£79,700 09/06/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of a project that provides hearing loss support for older people who are losing their hearing with age in East London.
Trust for London - Deaf Plus
£41,303 09/03/2021
The funding is for a full-time equivalent salary, running costs and overheads of providing generalist information, advice and casework support in BSL in 3 boroughs lacking advisory services for Deaf ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to deafPLUS
£9,172 15/12/2020
0
Hackney Council - Grant to Breakthrough (Deaf-Hearing Integration)
£133,989 10/12/2020
12
An accessible Advice Service as part of a consortium by deafPLUS, visionPLUS, City & Hackney Mind, Refugee Women's Association, Royal Society for Blind Children and Money A&E to meet the ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£53,692 29/09/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to deafPLUS
£14,926 28/09/2020
towards facilitating greater access to digital services to deaf people in the community, as outlined in your application.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to deafPLUS
£9,633 29/04/2020
Delivering advice and health and wellbeing services digitally. Producing video's in BSL with sub titles on a range of topics and training staff in this, providing on line workshops and changing to on ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to deafPLUS
£95,700 21/03/2019
24
£95,700 over two years (£47,400, £48,300) for a part-time Living with Hearing Loss Project Trainer, Project Officer and associated running costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - deafPLUS Advice Line
£597,640 21/09/2018
36
The project offers a national advice service, tailored to British Sign Language users. It helps clients with debt, finance, benefits, housing, civil rights and how to access external services. ....more
Home Office - Hate Crime Community Demonstration Projects 18-19
£7,696 01/04/2018
To enable the Home Office to deliver on one of the key objectives included within the four year Cross Government Hate Crime Strategy Action Against Hate to develop a number of Community Demonstration ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - Lipreading tutor training in Mendip and South Somerset
£3,000 08/03/2018
11
Living with Hearing Loss Lipreading Tutor
Trust for London - Deaf Plus
£75,000 15/06/2017
36
The funding is towards accessible Employment Service to the deaf community in London focusing on improving pay and career prospects.Campaigning to dismantle barriers to deaf people's career ....more
Home Office - Hate Crime Community Demonstration Projects 17-18
£42,857 01/04/2017
To enable the Home Office to deliver on one of the key objectives included within the four year Cross Â?Government Hate Crime Strategy Â?Action Against HateÂ? to develop a number of Community ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Towards salary of Head of Business and Project Development
£85,350 30/03/2017
24
Towards the salary of a new Head of Business Development to increase management capacity and allow them to support more people with hearing loss through advocacy, advice and employment skills training
Birmingham City Council - Community Development And Wellbeing
£4,533 01/01/2017
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Advice and support
Birmingham City Council - Community Development And Wellbeing
£9,066 01/07/2016
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Advice and support
Birmingham City Council - Community Development & Well-Being
£4,533 01/04/2016
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & WELL-BEING; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Advice and support
City Bridge Trust - Grant to deafPLUS
£135,000 26/11/2015
36
£135,000 over three years (£44,000, £45,000, £46,000) for a Living With Hearing Loss Project Trainer and Project Officer and associated running costs.
The Blagrave Trust - Employment support
£50,000 08/03/2014
To support young deaf people into employment
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Breakthrough Deaf
£30,000 29/01/2014
The charity supports D/deaf people through the delivery of a range of projects. The funding will allow them to continue to do this and to develop their portfolio of services further.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-75
  • SALLY PAULL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/01/1999, number: 1073468
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/12/1998, number: 03680467
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • 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; AR18: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from BROMLEY CHAIN on 19/03/2024
Main office

Deafplus
Trinity Centre
Key Close
LONDON
E1 4HG

Objectives

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE PROMOTION OF THE MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF DEAF PERSONS AND OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS (WHERE THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES ARE LINKED TO OR PROVIDED AS PART OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAF)) WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND SECONDLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FOR THESE PURPOSES THE TERM 'DEAF' MEANS DEAF, PARTIALLY DEAF OR DEAFENED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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