THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE

Registered charity 227169 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6516094 · Wikipedia · also known as LEEDS DEAF CENTRE, SHIRE VIEW RESOURCE CENTRE

To raise awareness, through education and training, of the daily communication and accessibility issues facing the growing number of people with sight or hearing loss & provide support/resources in line with Memorandum & Articles of Association. Provision of one of the largest BSL Interpreting Agencies in the North of England.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WITH SENSORY IMPAIRMENTS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING SENSORY IMPAIRED, BY PROMOTING, ORGANISING, AND FACILITATING CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: LEEDS

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £18,548 for the year, with total incoming resources of £295,283 and resources expended of £276,735. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds increased to £3,149,423, supported by a significant surplus in the defined benefit pension scheme. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue operations on a going concern basis.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00146281 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BYARD, Beverley — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• BURROWS, Donna — director, appointed 21/11/2019on trustee list
• FOSTER, Sheila — director, appointed 17/05/2018on trustee list
• WICKREMARATNE, Evin — director, appointed 09/01/2015not on trustee list
• ROCHE, Christine — director, appointed 12/11/2014on trustee list
• MILLER, Alison — secretary, appointed 01/10/2012

Official officers record.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JASON HIXONchair
• Beverley Byard
• Christine Roche
• Donna Burrows
• Evindra Lorenzo Wickremaratne
• Sheila Foster

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 LEEDS BLACK ELDERS ASSOCIATION.

• LEEDS BLACK ELDERS ASSOCIATION income £162k
• LEEDS AUTISM SERVICES income £2.1m
• LEEDS INVOLVING PEOPLE income £126k
• LEEDS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR SINGLE LADIES income £98k
• LEEDS SANCTUARY income £241k
• THE LEEDS AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY income £468k

Side by side with its peers

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