THE AUDITORY VERBAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1095133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AUDITORY VERBAL UK

Our vision is to give all children with hearing impairment the opportunity to listen and speak as equals alongside their hearing peers. We will achieve this goal by establishing systems of training to create more qualified auditory verbal therapists allied with the provision of direct services for children and their families.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM HEARING DIFFICULTIES AND THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS BY THE EDUCATION OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS OF THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH HEARING DIFFICULTIES

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a significant deficit of £606,394 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves moving into a liability position of £20,583. Per the trustees' report, this was largely due to a drop in total income from £2.29 million to £1.23 million, driven by the absence of prior-year exceptional gifts. However, the filing notes that post-year-end fundraising events generated £385,000 and additional grants of £165,000, returning unrestricted reserves to a significant asset position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £70,000 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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.

In the news

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

• Who’s Moving: Sheila McKechnie Foundation, Auditory Verbal UK and more civilsociety.co.uk · 08/08/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04569764 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Auditory Verbal UK (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.

• KING, Duncan James — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Aileen Lindsey — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Christopher Graham — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• ADAMSON, Shiona — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Gillian Ann — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list
• EHREN, Amelia Louise — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• BARRY, Jane — director, appointed 16/03/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 51.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Barrychair
• Aileen Lindsey Thompson
• Amelia Louise Ehren
• Christopher Graham Campbell
• Duncan James King
• Gillian Smith
• Shiona Adamson

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

Operates in: Denmark · Ireland · Malta · Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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).

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 CROYDON HEARING RESOURCE CENTRE.

• CROYDON HEARING RESOURCE CENTRE income £131k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• BIRKDALE TRUST FOR HEARING IMPAIRED LTD income £226k
• GATHERING VOICES LIMITED income £63k
• THE AUDIENCE AGENCY income £2.7m
• Sound Vision CIO income £139k

Side by side with its peers

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