BIRKDALE TRUST FOR HEARING IMPAIRED LTD

Registered charity 1103074 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of children and young people with particular reference to those with hearing impairment.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £329,983 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £6,343,967 to £6,013,984. The trustees confirm that the charity holds sufficient reserves to cover normal liabilities and that adequate funds are available to carry out its main objectives. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Advance Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05004473

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.

• RIMMER, Peter — director, appointed 29/05/2024on trustee list
• BRAIN, Emma — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• VITTY, Caroline — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list
• MULLA, Imran, Dr — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
• BEVAN, Christopher Stuart — director, appointed 27/03/2019on trustee list
• RIDING, Lucy Joanna — director, appointed 14/09/2016on trustee list
• TURNER, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 15/09/2015not on trustee list
• UNSWORTH, Sandra Jane — director, appointed 24/01/2012on trustee list
• PENNINGTON, Colin Edward — director, appointed 30/12/2003on trustee list
• COVENTRY, Pauline Wendy — director, appointed 30/12/2003on trustee list
• BEVAN, Christopher Stuart — secretary, appointed 13/09/2023

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (61% 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: 3.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN EDWARD PENNINGTONchair
• Caroline Vitty
• Christopher Stuart Bevan
• Dr Imran Mulla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Brain
• Lucy Joanna Riding
• Mrs S Turner
• PAULINE WENDY COVENTRY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Rimmer
• Sandra Jane Unsworth · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN.

• CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN income £579k
• EWING FOUNDATION income £217k
• THE SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING FOUNDATION income £182k
• Royal Deaf Education Trust income £9.0m
• ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF income £4.4m
• DINGLEY FAMILY AND SPECIALIST EARLY YEARS CENTRES income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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