SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 289868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S E N S E, SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAF-BLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION

Sense exists so that no one who is deafblind or has other complex disabilities is isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Across the country, we support children and adults to communicate and experience the world. We provide information and advice, offer a wide range of flexible services and campaign for the rights of people with complex disabilities to take part in life.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group made a loss of £2,310k in the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves to £46.3m. Despite this loss, the trustees consider the free reserves of £5.3m to be in excess of their minimum target of £4.5m, and the organization remains free of long-term debt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2024) to £150,001 - £160,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01825301

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sense (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.

• THURSTON, Allen — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• SIBLEY, Martyn John — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• BRIDGE, Danielle Simone Sarah — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• SACKS-JONES, Katharine Megan — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• FONTAINE, Leigh Alexander — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• KANE, Christine Anne — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• HUDSON, Tania Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• ROBERTSHAW, Philip Charles — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• LARSSON, Jeremy Christian — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• COOPER, Benjamin Francis — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• HOSKINS, Vivienne Helen — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• JONES, Simon Terry — director, appointed 10/12/2019on trustee list
• CAMMIES, Mark Nicholas — director, appointed 10/12/2019on trustee list
• HOWES, Paul Bernard — secretary, appointed 11/03/2026

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)

158 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Sense — Registered, 87 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 22/01/2024.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Nicholas Cammieschair
• Allen Thurston
• Benjamin Francis Cooper
• Christine Kane · trustee of 3 other charities
• Danielle Bridge
• Jeremy Christian Larsson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katharine Megan Sacks-Jones
• Leigh Fontaine
• Martyn Sibley
• PHILIP CHARLES ROBERTSHAW
• Simon Terry Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tania Hudson
• Vivienne Helen Hoskins

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 SENSE INTERNATIONAL.

• SENSE INTERNATIONAL income £3.6m
• Sense Ability Matters LTD. income £744k
• DEAFBLIND UK income £3.6m
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND income £36.5m
• FIFTH SENSE income £247k
• SIGHT CYMRU income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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