OXFORDSHIRE DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

Registered charity 297689 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL DEAF CHILDREN SOCIETY OXFORDSHIRE REGION

We support deaf children & their families living in Oxfordshire. We provide assistance for the deaf child & their families either directly or by providing social and entertainment initiatives.

Objects

TO FURTHER IN EVERY WAY ALLOWED BY LAW, THE SUPPORT OF DEAF CHILDREN AND DEAF YOUNG PEOPLE, UP TO THE AGE OF 25 YEARS.

Area of benefit: OXFORD AND DISTRICT

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

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Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in an extremely strong financial position with assets over £590k and cash resources of £168,504. The treasurer reports that these cash deposits solidly underpin expected spending needs for the next five years or more, allowing the charity to operate without reliance on fundraising.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brid Cronin
• DOUGLAS SIMMONS
• Dr Clare Robertson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Zoe Elizabeth Lee
• Naomi Martell-Bundock

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OXFORD DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.

• THE OXFORD DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING income £106k
• OXFORDSHIRE HOMELESS MOVEMENT income £371k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE CARE PARTNERSHIP income £29.6m
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
• OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH income £2.4m
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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