THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEAF PEOPLE

Registered charity 207720 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION ON HEARING LOSS, R N I D, RNID, THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF · also registered in Scotland as SC038926 (OSCR)

To help people confronting deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss to live the life they choose. We enable them to take control oftheir lives and remove the barriers in their way.

Causes: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with an unrestricted operating surplus of £0.8m and free reserves of £5.6m, which the trustees confirm is within their stated target range of £3.2m to £6.4m. The charity reports being financially sustainable with strong cash reserves, although it notes continued dependency on legacy income and challenges in embedding a new CRM system. The trustees and auditors have confirmed the appropriateness of the going concern basis for the financial statements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Jackie Ballard to leave Action on Hearing Loss for Womankind civilsociety.co.uk · 14/06/2012

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00454169

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Harriet Oppenheimer — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THOMSEN, Ruth Margaret — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• WARNER, Clive Howard — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• STRINGER, Matthew Jackson — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• CURRY, Tanya — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• KIRBY, Amber — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Chloe Rebecca — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• RASMUSSEN, Jessica Suhanthi — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• STEVENSON, Ewen James — director, appointed 01/06/2022on trustee list
• BUDD, Gillian Susan — director, appointed 01/06/2022on trustee list
• ABBOTT, James Duncan Hammond — secretary, appointed 21/07/2021

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Royal National Institute for Deaf People — Deregistered, 34 registered locations, last inspected 19/02/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

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

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ewen James Stevensonchair
• Amber Kirby
• Clive Warner
• Gillian Susan Budd
• Jessica Rasmussen
• Matthew Jackson Stringer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt Hon Chloe Smith
• Ruth Thomsen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tanya Curry

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION.

• THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• ACTION FOR DEAFNESS income £2.4m
• DURHAM DEAFENED SUPPORT income £158k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.2m
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• HEARING DOGS FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £16.4m

Side by side with its peers

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