BID SERVICES

Registered charity 1053184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B I D, BID SERVICES WITH DEAF PEOPLE, BIRMINGHAM INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF

Working to improve the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people and those in need by reason of age, ill health or disability.

Objects

1.1 The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit the relief of those in need by virtue of age, ill health or disability, in particular but not limited to:1.1.1 those who are deaf or hard of hearing (which expression applies to all those whose hearing is significantly impaired);1.1.2 those who use a Sign Language as a preferred language;1.1.3 those who are blind or partially sighted;1.1.4 those with any other sensory impairment; and1.1.5 those with any other mental or physical disability;and their dependents.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net incoming resource surplus of £253,253 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £6,573,118. The trustees report that free unrestricted reserves are £1,268,429, which is below the stated policy target of at least £2 million, though the charity holds significant cash balances and secured funding to support going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young (Birmingham) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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 03124204

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gail — CEO (source)
• Matt — Chair (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.

• BREEZE, Adam Carl — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• YOUNIS, Vaqhars — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Hannah Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• MCGEOGHAN, Andrew John — director, appointed 28/09/2023on trustee list
• COLLINGWOOD, Matthew James — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• PRICE, Michael Jonathan — director, appointed 22/09/2016on trustee list
• KAUR, Sandeep — director, appointed 20/09/2012on trustee list
• PENBERTHY, Gail — secretary, appointed 05/12/2024

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

CQC provider record: Birmingham Institute for the Deaf — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 19/12/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: BID Services — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 28/10/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Carl Breeze
• Andrew Mcgeoghan
• Hannah Anderson
• MICHAEL PRICE
• Matthew James Collingwood
• SANDEEP KAUR
• Vaqhars Younis

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• ASIST income £1.4m
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• GUILD CARE income £27.5m
• BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
• AWARD SOLUTIONS LTD income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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