Sense Ability Matters LTD.

Registered charity 1107499 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GATESHEAD AND SOUTH TYNESIDE SIGHT SERVICE, Vision & Hearing Support Gateshead and South Tyneside

Sense Ability Matters is here to help all adults in our South Tyneside and Gateshead community who have a sensory impairment, are disabled, or live with a long-term health condition.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £48,234 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £743,773 and expenditure of £695,539. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £367,034, which is above the stated policy target of six to nine months' expenditure, indicating stable financial health.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lin Elder-Atterton MVOchair
• Deborah Tindle
• Ian Hickson
• Lynda Rhodes
• Peter Kirk

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

Operates in: Gateshead · South Tyneside

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 TEESSIDE ABILITY SUPPORT CENTRE.

• TEESSIDE ABILITY SUPPORT CENTRE income £1.3m
• SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION income £101.9m
• SENSE INTERNATIONAL income £3.6m
• Enable Ability income £1.6m
• TYNESIDE AND NORTHUMBERLAND MIND income £1.3m
• NORTH TYNESIDE DISABILITY FORUM LTD income £471k

Side by side with its peers

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