DEAF AWARENESS: NE

Registered charity 1178549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

deaf awareness: NE runs a series of sessions and activities from the Linskill Centre, North Shields, to help raise awareness of issues impacting on deaf and hard of hearing people. These session include sign language, lipreading, tinnitus support, deaf awareness training and deaf sports. Hearing induction loops, speech to text and BSL/English interpreters are used as appropriate.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, INFORMATION, SUPPORT, ADVICE, EDUCATION AND FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PEOPLE.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES OF DEAFNESS TO THE WIDER PUBLICNOTE: FOR THE PURPOSES ALL OBJECTS THE WORD ‘DEAF’ COMPRISES ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF, DEAFENED, HARD OF HEARING, DEAF-DISABLED OR CULTURALLY DEAF AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO REGARD THEMSELVES AS HEARING IMPAIRED OR OF HAVING A HEARING LOSS.

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 unrestricted funds increased from £4,825 to £18,609, resulting in a total surplus of £49,797 for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £18,609 against total funds of £87,336, with no stated reserves policy target provided in the filing.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sherburn House Charity — “Current Funders Sherburn House Charity” (source page)
• The Sir James Knott Trust — “Previous Funders The Sir James Knott Trust” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Rosemary Muffittchair
• Christine Tawse
• Denise Huscroft
• Helen Ganson
• Josh McKenzie
• Karen Skipper
• Trish Jackson
• William Peters

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE.

• WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £192k
• ACTION DEAFNESS income £3.1m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE DEAF SOCIETY income £779k
• THE MANCHESTER DEAF CENTRE income £860k
• DEAF ACTIVE income £273k
• DURHAM DEAFENED SUPPORT income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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