The Carr Fenton Foundation

Registered charity 1088060 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DONCASTER COLLEGE FOR THE DEAF, DONCASTER DEAF TRUST, DONCASTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, Doncaster School for Deaf Children, Yorkshire Rose College

Education and training of deaf and hearing-impaired children below school age, pupils students, adults and those with communication and/or learning difficulties.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: • TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING (INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION); AND • TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND CARE (INCLUDING PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OVERALL WELLBEING); OF DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND THOSE WITH COMMUNICATION AND/OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; • TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY ON DEAFNESS, HEARING IMPAIRMENTS, COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, TO HELP WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF, HEARING IMPAIRED OR HAVE COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND/ OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES OF DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY; •TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND CARE OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE; BY THE PROVISION (AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) OF A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS, COLLEGE OR COLLEGES, NURSERY OR NURSERIES OR SUCH OTHER TRAINING OR CARE FACILITIES AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: IN OR NEAR DONCASTER

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £1,265,000 and increased its unrestricted funds to £5,425,000. The trustees confirm that assets are available and adequate to fulfil the charity's obligations, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wbg (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Pals tackled the challenge to raise funds for Doncaster's Yorkshire Rose College doncasterfreepress.co.uk · 02/07/2026
• Yorkshire Rose College celebrates £10,000 grant for new sensory nooks doncasterfreepress.co.uk · 08/06/2026
• Yorkshire Rose College celebrates generous donation to their hair and beauty salon doncasterfreepress.co.uk · 28/04/2026
• Two new assistant headteachers for Doncaster School for Deaf Children doncasterfreepress.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Carr Fenton Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alexis Johnson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Don Conway — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Natalie Firth — Deputy CEO & Director of Quality and Support Services (source)
• Phil Carter — Director of Human Resources (source)
• Saleem Rafiq — Director of Finance (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Savoy Educational Trust — “Amazon • Fellowes • Doncaster Junior Lawyers Division • Volker Rail • Hensalls • OneCall Insurance • TK Maxx & Homesense • Savoy Educational…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Susanne Goodman
• Charles Warde-Aldam
• Don Charles Conway
• Mark William Anthony Warde-Norbury · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Luke Wilkinson
• Neil Andrew Thomas
• Susan Margaret Dumican
• THOMAS BELL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING FOUNDATION.

• THE SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING FOUNDATION income £182k
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £147k
• THE FENTON ARTS TRUST income £182k
• DEAF EMPOWERING NETWORK income £960k
• The Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited income £275k
• CARLTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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