SENSE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1076497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sense International supports people with deafblindness and their families to be full and active members of society through work in health, early intervention, education and vocational training. We work with governments and in partnership with local organisations across these areas, addressing issues such as early diagnosis and family communication, immunisation and enabling supportive legislation.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £275,133, which is equivalent to four months' expenditure and is now in line with the Trustees' target. The charity reported a net income of £318,558 for the year, with total income of £3.60m against total expenditure of £3.29m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sense International (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kavita Prasad — Chief Executive (source)
• Rex Shah — Chair (source)
• Uttam Kumar — Chief Executive (source)
• Edward Otim — Regional Director (source)
• Etelka Czondi — Director (source)
• Ricardo Zevallos — Director (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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raaxeet Kumar Harakhchand Haria Shahchair
• Dilnaz Khambata
• Joseph Collenette
• Kiran Virdee
• Lauren Watters
• Nicholas Corby
• Sian Tesni Copeland Roberts
• Simon Gallow
• Sunil Shah
• Suzi Nandera
• Vivienne Hoskins

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Kenya · Nepal · Peru · Romania · Tanzania · Uganda

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 SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION.

• SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION income £101.9m
• DEAFBLIND UK income £3.6m
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• Sense Ability Matters LTD. income £744k
• SIGHT CYMRU income £558k
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND income £36.5m

Side by side with its peers

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