BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE BROADCASTING TRUST

Registered charity 1145249 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSLBT, LumoTV

LumoTV is the working name for the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust. LumoTV commissions television programmes made in British Sign Language, and distributes them on Film4 and Together TV as well as on its own app and website, www.lumotv.co.uk

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG THE DEAFCOMMUNITY WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OFBEING DEAF BY ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING THE PROVISION OF BROADCASTING OF SIGN-PRESENTED CONTENT (IN ANY MEDIA) FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE DEAF COMMUNITY.

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 reported a net deficit of £69,197 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £2,078,009. The trustees note that undesignated reserves of £1.1 million represent approximately 2.7 months of charitable expenditure, which is slightly below the stated policy target of three months. The charity relies primarily on broadcaster contributions, which increased to £4.6 million, to fund its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Gorman
• Briony Robinson
• Chris Higgs
• Elizabeth Rowlands
• Gregory Pierssene
• Jaine Sykes
• Moona Mohammed
• REG COBB

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUMOS FOUNDATION.

• LUMOS FOUNDATION income £5.7m
• Luma Foundation income £178k
• LUMULE FOUNDATION income £171k
• LUX income £846k
• LUMIAR STOWFORD income £346k
• BRITISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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