THE SWANSEA CENTRE FOR DEAF PEOPLE

Registered charity 221220 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWANSEA AND DISTRICT DEAF AND DUMB MISSION, WEST GLAMORGAN CENTRE FOR THE DEAF

To further or benefit the deaf and hard of hearing in a common effort to advance education and religion, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life.

Objects

(I) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING IN A COMMON EFFORT TOADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIGION, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTSOF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THEOBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE.(II) TO ASSIST IN OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING, ANDTO PROVIDE AN INTERPRETER IN CASES OF DISPUTE OR MISUNDERSTANDINGBETWEEN THEM AND THEIR EMPLOYERS.(III) TO VISIT THE SICK AND OTHERS IN THEIR HOMES, AND TO RELIEVE FINANCIALHARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS.

Area of benefit: SWANSEA AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a critical financial position, with unrestricted reserves of £15,141 falling significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of £26,608. The trustees report that the charity has been operating at a loss, with a net deficit of £47,414 for the year, and warn that the organization was on track to run out of assets/cash by May 2026 without the sale of its land asset.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 Swansea Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIMOTHY NIGEL DOUGLAS-JONESchair
• JUNE FRANCES TALBOT
• John Aylward
• Kate Galloway
• PAUL PETER GERALD LEWIS

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SWANSEA.

• DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SWANSEA income £381k
• MUSIC AND THE DEAF income £41k
• SWANSEA SCOUT AND GUIDE HEADQUARTERS income £41k
• THE SWISS CHURCH IN LONDON income £210k
• SLOUGH & DISTRICT DEAF CENTRE income £137k
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m

Side by side with its peers

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