DEAF CONNEXIONS

Registered charity 1188715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Deaf Connexions provides a range of Communication and Information Services to the Deaf Community of Norfolk.There are around 500 British Sign Language (BSL) users in our Deaf Community.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF OR ARE AFFECTED BY DEAFNESS SO THAT THEY MAY LEAD FULL AND ACTIVE LIVES IN SOCIETY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £136,449, which sits at 112% of forecast annual general fund income, slightly exceeding the trustees' target of 50-100%. The charity reports a small net increase in general reserves despite all services showing a loss, largely offset by a donation of rent-free office space. The trustees confirm the charity continues to look forward to a successful future with adequate resources.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Deaf Connexions (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Rose Hawksworthchair
• Hannah Butcher
• Howard Jones
• ROBIN AMOS
• Tony Sutton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).