HI KENT

Registered charity 1052036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hi Kent aims to raise awareness of the needs of deaf people and provide practical support to manage hearing loss throughout Kent. Activities include: Assessments of need for people over the age of 26 on behalf of Kent County Council. Provision of assistive equipment and advice. Advice, Hearing aid maintenance, Sign language & Deaf Awareness training, Support groups and Lipreading courses.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF HEARING-IMPAIRED PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE KENT AND SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,940 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement on the previous year's £17,000 deficit. Total funds decreased to £173,515, with free reserves standing at £133,334, which the trustees aim to maintain at four to six months of operational costs. The trustees confirm adequate resources exist to continue operations on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLIVE REDDIHOUGHchair
• CAROLINE ELIZABETH HIGHWOOD
• Julia Samantha Cox
• MARY SHAW
• Pat Todd · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENT EQUALITY COHESION COUNCIL.

• KENT EQUALITY COHESION COUNCIL income £84k
• THE KENT AUTISTIC TRUST income £10.5m
• KENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £5.5m
• CROYDON HEARING RESOURCE CENTRE income £131k
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k
• KENT SEARCH AND RESCUE (LOWLAND) income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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