GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1015937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GDA

To provide quality services appropriate to the needs and wishes of Deaf and Hardof Hearing people and their families.To assist Deaf and Hard of Hearing people gain equal access to information and services.To work with other organisations ensuring that resources are used in the most effective way to meet the needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and their families.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE THE DISABILITY OF DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE WITHIN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF SPIRITUAL, MATERIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HELP SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO BE FULLY INTEGRATED IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY AND TO PROMOTE THIS OBJECT BY ALL APPROPRIATE MEANS

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £32,152 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,238,546 and expenditure of £1,206,394. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £102,087 are in line with the stated policy target of £47,913, representing three months of working capital requirements. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Pitt Godden & Taylor LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02692718

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mary Hailes — Head of Operations (source)
• Martha Avery — Head of Services (source)
• Sarah Tavner — Head of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Caroline Trickey — Head of Finance (source)
• Gilson Sly — Head of Growth and Partnerships (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOWELL, Graham George — director, appointed 05/03/2026on trustee list
• SHEEN, Victoria — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• STOCKEN, Samantha Tara Eadie — director, appointed 02/02/2022not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham George Howell
• Sam Stocken
• Victoria Sheen

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.0m
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY income £248k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• DERBYSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND LTD income £732k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.