WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE

Registered charity 1201337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAKEFIELD DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SUPPORT SERVICE

Wakefield and District Society for Deaf People specialises in providing community support, engagement and equipment for service users who are deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing. We also provide other services such as sign language training and deaf awareness.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG DEAF, DEAF BLIND AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING DEAF, DEAF BLIND OR HARD OF HEARING AND TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE INCLUDING BY BUT NOT LIMITED TO:RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING DEAF, DEAF BLIND AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE BOTH GENERALLY AND IN RELATION TO THEIR SOCIAL EXCLUSION;PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, ADVOCACY AND GENERAL SUPPORT;PROVIDING RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES; CO-OPERATING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS HAVING THE SAME OR SIMILAR AIMS.

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 · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £41,590 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £134,353. This figure exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target range of £75,328 to £112,992, which is equivalent to six to nine months of core expenditure. The trustees consider the higher level of reserves prudent given funding uncertainty and future development needs.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Noblechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Evans
• Claire Brambles
• Marie Vickers
• Michael Madden
• RICHARD JONES
• Valerie Pratt

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALES COUNCIL FOR DEAF PEOPLE.

• WALES COUNCIL FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £437k
• THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• THE MANCHESTER DEAF CENTRE income £860k
• ACTION DEAFNESS income £3.1m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE DEAF SOCIETY income £779k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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