ACCESS BEDFORD

Registered charity 1162947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Deaf Access Bedfordshire

1 Raising public awareness of the issues affecting deaf people2 Campaigning for the promotion of British Sign Language to be on an equal footing to spoken and written English3 Providing recreational facilities and opportunities for deaf people to integrate with the hearing community

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG MEMBERS OF THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING COMMUNITY LIVING IN BEDFORD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING BY:1. RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING DEAF PEOPLE, BOTH GENERALLY AND IN RELATION TO THEIR SOCIAL EXCLUSION;2. CAMPAIGNING FOR THE PROMOTION OF BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE TO BE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING TO SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH; AND3. PROVIDING RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEAF PEOPLE TO INTEGRATE WITH THE HEARING COMMUNITY.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £51,842, with unrestricted funds rising to £38,358, indicating a positive net income of £32,996 for the year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue, and the independent examiner reported no material matters requiring attention.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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.

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 01/04/2025 (received 10/03/2026, 37 days after the 01/02/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Access Bedford (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE WRIGHT
• Claire Margaret Jones
• Felicity Hazel Malt

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £210k
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £295k
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• MORE EDUCATION income £531k
• BEDFORD CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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