Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

Poor Liquidity: -1
Deficit latest year: -2
Fundraising costs high: -4

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 12

THE AUDITORY VERBAL CENTRE

Our vision is to give all children with hearing impairment the opportunity to listen and speak as equals alongside their hearing peers. We will achieve this goal by establishing systems of training to create more qualified auditory verbal therapists allied with the provision of direct services for children and their families.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
31/07/23		£1,282	£1,585	£-303	£496	£429	£267	2	28	20
31/07/22		£1,360	£1,295	£64	£346	£733	£617	5.7	29	0
31/07/21		£1,090	£1,121	£-31	£227	£668	£435	4.7	25	20
31/07/20		£1,214	£1,042	£172	£194	£699	£563	6.5	23	12
31/07/19?		£1,518	£1,478	£40	£264	£527	£408	3.3	22	5
31/03/18		£1,119	£1,026	£93	£152	£487	£63	0.7	20	0
31/03/17		£769	£898	£-129	£130	£394	£99	1.3	18	0
31/03/16		£675	£843	£-168	£90	£522	£102	1.4	13	0
31/03/15		£1,182	£705	£477	£92	£691	£154	2.6	10	0
31/03/14		£579	£708	£-129	£67	£214	£119	2	10	0
31/03/13		£711	£624	£87	£41	£343	£86	1.7	10	0
31/03/12		£491	£527	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£499	£496	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£569	£448	£122	£46	£289	£168	4.5	8	0
31/03/09		£465	£450	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08		£354	£286	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/07	*	£231	£247	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06	*	£230	£198	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£166	£159	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£164	£95	£69	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 38.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 31.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 22 years

www.avuk.org

info@avuk.org

01869325000

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Denmark, Ireland, Malta, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
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

Esmee Fairbairn	£236,604
DCMS	£60,000
CHK Foundation	£50,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£45,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£40,000
City Bridge Trust	£17,972

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£20,000	20/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£45,000	16/12/2022	AVUK's Sound Futures Proposal: Transforming Outcomes for Deaf Children
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£200,000	07/12/2022	Towards core costs hear us now - transforming services for the long term and tackling the root cause of disadvantage for deaf children and their families
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£50,000	23/11/2020	to support specified work
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£60,000	19/10/2020	"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to AVUK
£17,972	05/06/2020	£17,972 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£16,604	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£40,000	23/01/2020 48	Main Grant unrestricted core costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Auditory Verbal Centre
£135,000	09/05/2019 36	£135,000 over three years (£50,000; £45,000; £40,000) to provide auditory verbal therapy to deaf children and their families in London.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	05/12/2018	Creating A Sound Future For London's Deaf Children
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£149,614	11/10/2017 36	Towards the salary costs of the chief executive and manager to enhance strategic activities for increasing the provision of services to improve outcomes for deaf children.
John Ellerman Foundation - Salary costs of Chief Executive
£60,000	19/05/2016 24	Towards core costs, specifically the salary costs of the Chief Executive to continue its work with deaf children
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to The Auditory Verbal Centre
£60,000	14/03/2016 36	Towards core costs to enable AV-UK reach more deaf children directly, and train more therapists.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Auditory Verbal UK
£60,000	04/12/2014 36	towards three years' running costs of a projects that supports the speech and language development of deaf pre-school children in the UK
The Blagrave Trust - Children and families with hearing impairment
£90,000	13/11/2014	Teaching profoundly deaf children to speak and supporting families
The October Club -
£535,000	31/10/2014

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-72

AILEEN LINDSEY THOMPSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Corporate Affairs Consultant

AMELIA LOUISE EHREN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Strategy Professional

CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM CAMPBELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Company Director

GILLIAN SMITH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant

JANE BARRY (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Civil Servant

JONATHAN MARK PEPPER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Management Consultant

KATHERINE ROSEMARY BARTROP Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Fundraising

PAUL CLIFFORD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired Company Director

SHIONA ADAMSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2002, number: 1095133
Registered at Companies House on 22/10/2002, number: 04569764

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Fundraising Regulator

First registered: 09/01/2018, current status: Large charity (levy paid)

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
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; AR07: 17 days late, AR06: 1 days late,

Main office

BIGNELL PARK BARNS
CHESTERTON
BICESTER
OXON
OX26 1TD

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM HEARING DIFFICULTIES AND THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS BY THE EDUCATION OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS OF THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH HEARING DIFFICULTIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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