THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN)

Registered charity 1196287 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FCDC

Provides support, activities, events and courses for deaf children and their families

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AND THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AMONG DEAF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHO MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OFBEING DEAF (WHERE DEAF IS DEFINED AS MILD TO PROFOUND HEARING LOSS) BY:• PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, AND GENERAL ADVICE FOR DEAF FAMILIES• PROVIDING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEAF FAMILIES• PROVIDING, OR SUPPORTING ACCESS TO THE PROVISION OF, SERVICES SUPPORTING DEAF FAMILIES, BY WORKING WITH OTHER RELEVANT AGENCIES

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 · Education/training · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £28,946, which the trustees report equates to almost five months of reduced activity expenditure, meeting their policy target of three months. The charity secured significant grant funding, including a £242,796 award from the National Lottery Community Fund, providing financial security through April 2029. Despite this, the charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £7,697 for the year, with unrestricted funds declining from £36,643 to £28,946.

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
• Investing charity funds 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 — The Family Centre (Deaf Children) (FCDC) (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Currychair
• Daniel Hunt
• Elizabeth Lawrence
• Kaisha Powell
• Kay Confait
• Samantha Lautieri
• Sarah Jane Evans
• Stephen Thompson

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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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 CENTRE 56 LIMITED.

• CENTRE 56 LIMITED income £546k
• THE NATIONAL DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY income £33.6m
• THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• ST JOHN'S DEAF COMMUNITY CENTRE income £122k
• THE PHOENIX GROUP FOR DEAF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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