Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

EMPOWERING DEAF SOCIETY 

Promoting the welfare of Deaf peopleProvide advice and training in all areas of education and employmentPromote the educational and social interests of Deaf peopleProvide support and advice for those accessing mainstream education and vocational training.
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
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 15 years

www.empoweringdeafsociety.org.uk

contact@empoweringdeafsociety.org.uk

02082154710

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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£229£231£-2n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/22£194£158£36n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£246£148£99n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/20£157£131£26n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19*£118£77£41n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£44£68£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£96£57£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£37£32£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£46£44£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£40£34£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£35£33£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£34£49£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£93£63£30£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 12 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£518,205
Three Guineas Trust£96,000
Trust for London£85,140
Greater London Authority£53,874
BBC Children in Need£39,600
DCMS£33,169
The London Community Foundation£19,938
The MSE Charity£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Three Guineas Trust - Extend advice for Deaf people by giving extra hours to welfare rights advisers and related costs.
£96,000 27/03/2024
Extend advice for Deaf people by giving extra hours to welfare rights advisers, including related admin and venue costs.
Trust for London - Empowering Deaf Society
£5,140 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.21-8977
Greater London Authority - Empowering Deaf Society
£53,874 29/07/2022
This is partnership Programme between City Bridge Trust, the National Lottery Community Fund and the GLA. Empowering Deaf Society provides services that are designed to meet the needs of the deaf ....more
The MSE Charity - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£6,500 15/04/2022
Funding the CAP Money course to be delivered in BSL (British Sign Language) and to enable 3 deaf people to train to become CAP Money Coaches.
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee legacy for Deaf
£49,299 03/03/2022
The funding will be used to bring the deaf and hearing community together to work on a community allotment. The project has the potential to bring down barriers and raise awareness of the issues that ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering Deaf
£10,000 05/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver events for deaf children youth club events for deaf young people and provide opportunities for socialisation and education. Activities include information ....more
Trust for London - Empowering Deaf Society
£80,000 09/06/2021
36
The funding is for supporting Deaf Londoners to progress to better jobs in their workplace. The project will build employers' awareness of behaviours, and practices, that prevent advancement of Deaf ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Deaf Can
£448,912 05/05/2021
The group is using funding to continue supporting the deaf community through improved deaf awareness education and training for the deaf community including employment and mental health support ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£39,600 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will offer a programme of face to face workshops for deaf children to reduce isolation experienced during COVID-19 and increase social networks.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£9,980 14/08/2020
Ensuring deaf people get access to all necessary information via video messaging platforms / social media, in BSL. We will offer support for older/vulnerable deaf with shopping, medication, arranging ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,980 14/08/2020
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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Empowering Deaf People
£2,500 03/07/2020
COVID19 : purchase of IT equipment for a charity that supports deaf people in Greater London
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,989 03/07/2020
"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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£13,200 30/06/2020
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
CAF - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£4,959 14/05/2020
3
Grant to Empowering Deaf Society to support the organisation through COVID19
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£9,958 23/04/2020
Ensuring deaf people get access to all necessary information via video messaging platforms / social media, in BSL. We will offer support for older/vulnerable deaf with shopping, medication, arranging ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Deaf Women project
£9,994 22/04/2020
9
The funding will be used to deliver a series of health workshops specifically for deaf women to support them to access health care information and services. The project aims to provide a safe space ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - EDS Social Events
£9,980 15/10/2018
12
The project aims to provide specialist entertainment to ensure people can actively engage in the event.
People's Health Trust - Deaf Together
£21,525 23/08/2018
This one-year project provided a weekly social club along with workshops for deaf adults living in Redbridge, Havering and Barking and Dagenham. The topics and themes for the workshops and sessions ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting and Empowering Deaf Communities in East London
£260,688 21/03/2018
36
This project focuses on meeting the education, health and wellbeing needs of deaf people living predominantly in the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - D - Sport & Leisure
£9,962 07/06/2017
12
This project will use funding to improve knowledge on health and wellbeing for people living with hearing impairments. The project will use an awareness raising session, wellbeing activities and a ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Empowering Deaf Society
£22,000 21/10/2016
purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with disabled people in London
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/10/2009, number: 1131970
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
13 returns made; AR19: 31 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR11: 120 days late,
Main office

2a Central Parade
Ley Street
Ilford
IG2 7DE

Objectives

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR DEAF TEACHERS AND TEACHERS WORKING WITH DEAF PEOPLE, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING STANDARDS OF TEACHING FOR THE DEAF COMMUNITY.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITY.3. TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT BY PROVIDING ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION FOR THE DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITY.4. TO RELIEVE NEED AMONG DEAF PEOPLE BY HELPING THEM ACCESS MAINSTREAM AND PUBLIC SERVICES AND BY HELPING THEM PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.5. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY HELPING DEAF PEOPLE TO ACCESS EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES AND BY PROMOTING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DEAF AND HEARING COMMUNITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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