COMMUNICATION UNLIMITED

Registered charity 1188251 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide high quality, deaf communication services to empower individuals and groups to actively participate in society equally, primarily in the county of DerbyshireTo constantly strive for improving effective communication for all the diverse needs of deaf people

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH WILL BENEFIT PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY WITHIN THE COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE (HERE AFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WHO HAVE HEARING AND/OR SIGHT DIFFICULTIES (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS DEAF AND DEAFBLIND PEOPLE) BY ENCOURAGING THE PROVISION OF OR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICES, WHICH FACILITATE INDEPENDENCE, ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN AND FULL INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.

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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Registered contact address: Derby, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £7,352 for the year, resulting in total funds of £199,274. The trustees note that unrestricted funds of £198,610 are entirely allocated to designated funds, leaving no free general reserves. The charity maintains a strong net current asset position and significant cash balance to support its operations.

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.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Agnieszka Latifchair
• David Robert Leader
• Hamza Shaikh · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Brian Lenton
• Rowena Johnson
• Siobhan Shaw

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

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 MORE EDUCATION.

• MORE EDUCATION income £531k
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
• AUDIOVISABILITY income £27k
• U O B H LIMITED income £49k
• SLOUGH & DISTRICT DEAF CENTRE income £137k
• BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £210k

Side by side with its peers

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