BREAKTHROUGH (DEAF-HEARING INTEGRATION)

Registered charity 1073468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q100160414 · also known as DEAFPLUS

deafPLUS is a registered medium-sized charity and company limited by guarantee working to encourage integration and equality between deaf/visually impaired and hearing people in all areas of life.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE PROMOTION OF THE MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF DEAF PERSONS AND OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS (WHERE THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES ARE LINKED TO OR PROVIDED AS PART OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAF)) WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND SECONDLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FOR THESE PURPOSES THE TERM 'DEAF' MEANS DEAF, PARTIALLY DEAF OR DEAFENED.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net deficit of £12,405 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the previous year, driven by lower fundraising and training income alongside increased costs. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that free reserves of £182,108 equate to approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure, which exceeds their stated minimum target of three months. The trustees affirm the charity's ability to continue as a going concern based on streamlined management expenses and a diverse range of secured service agreements.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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 03680467 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — deafPLUS/visionPLUS (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• VANN, Rachel — director, appointed 05/06/2024on trustee list
• O'HALLORAN, Geraldine Anne — director, appointed 03/03/2021on trustee list
• MURRAY MBE, Alan — director, appointed 05/12/2018not on trustee list
• COBB, Reg — secretary, appointed 10/03/2026

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Murray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geraldine O'halloran
• Rachel Vann

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• DEAFBLIND UK income £3.6m
• DEAF UNITY income £148k
• PORTSMOUTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE WELFARE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB income £8k
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £210k
• BUSINESS DISABILITY FORUM income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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