CHLOE'S AND SOPHIE'S SPECIAL EARS FUND

Registered charity 1151263 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHLOE'S AND SOPHIE'S SPECIAL EAR FUND, CSSEF

We brighten the lives of Deaf children. We aim to provide an everlasting impact on their wellbeing and mental health by overcoming challenges, creating experiences and empowering individuals to be their best selves.

Objects

TO RAISE DEAF AWARENESS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN IN MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS BY PROVIDING DEAF EQUIPMENT, DEAF RESOURCES AND MATERIALS TO IMPROVE THE SOUND ACOUSTICS IN THE SCHOOL.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rushmoor, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £13,207 for the year ended 30 November 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. The trustees have agreed that charity reserves should be set at £70,000. The charity employs five full-time and six part-time staff, with two paid directors.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2021 (received 14/10/2022, 14 days after the 30/09/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08300399

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CSSEF (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.

• RAINBIRD, Daniel Peter — director, appointed 08/04/2024on trustee list
• JACKSON, Brian George — director, appointed 20/11/2012not on trustee list
• JACKSON, Karen Michelle — director, appointed 20/11/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Peter Rainbirdchair
• Adam Lee
• CERI MARIE RISE
• LEAH ILES
• Rachel Chocian
• Shaun Garrett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Surrey · Throughout London · West Berkshire · Wrexham

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 CHAIGELEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

• CHAIGELEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £3.8m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• ESHARELIFE FOUNDATION income £171k
• PORTSMOUTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE WELFARE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB income £8k
• WARRINGTON & DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £124k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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