DEAFBLIND UK

Registered charity 802976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q111950431 · Wikipedia · also known as NATIONAL DEAF-BLIND LEAGUE, NATIONAL DEAFBLIND LEAGUE

Deafblind UK has supported those with dual sensory loss since 1928, helping them overcome the unique set of challenges they face every single day. We offer complimentary membership, with all our services being delivered free of charge. We help to reduce loneliness and isolation, and promote social inclusion, thereby allowing people who are deafblind to live their lives with dignity and purpose.

Objects

I) TO FURTHER THE INTERESTS OF DEAF-BLIND PERSONS BY EVERY MEANS AND IN EVERY WAY OPEN TO IT. DEAF-BLIND TO INCLUDE THOSE SUBSTANTIALLY DEPRIVED OF SIGHT AND HEARING. II) TO HELP THE DEAF-BLIND TO LIVE AS USEFUL MEMBERS OF ANY COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY MAY FIND THEMSELVES AND WHENEVER AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT CONTACT AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE DEAF-BLIND AND SIGHTED HEARING PERSONS. III) TO BUILD OR PURCHASE AND MAINTAIN FLATS, GUESTHOUSES SHELTERED AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION FOR THE BENEFIT AND USE OF DEAF-BLIND PEOPLE. IV) TO ENCOURAGE THE SIGHTED HEARING PUBLIC AT LARGE TO BE AWARE OF THE NEEDS AND CAPABILITIES OF THE DEAF-BLIND. V) TO PROVIDE AND ENCOURAGE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE HELP, COMFORT AND INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF-BLIND INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL OFFICES DIVISIONS AND CLUBS FOR THE DEAF-BLIND.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £57,560 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 4% to £3,607,959. Per the trustees' report, free cash reserves stood at £1,502,035, representing 5.0 months of operating costs, which is within the stated policy target of three to six months. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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 02426281
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 2426281

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Deafblind UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Robert Nolan — Chair (source)
• Nikki Morris — CEO (source)
• Rod Cullen — Director (source)
• Alisdair Caulfield — Director (source)
• Simone Jackman — Director (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.

• OGDEN, William Philip — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• CHILDS, David — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• BEUKES, Eldre, Dr — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• CRITOPH, Stephen Mark Antony — director, appointed 27/03/2019on trustee list
• WILSON-HINDS, Roger — director, appointed 12/12/2018on trustee list
• FOY, George — director, appointed 12/12/2018on trustee list
• NOLAN, Robert Jan Michiel — director, appointed 17/01/2018on trustee list
• CULLEN, Rodney — secretary, appointed 16/02/2016

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.

CQC provider record: Deafblind U.K. — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 02/02/2012.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: Deafblind UK — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/05/2021.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 ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Deafblind UK: Good (01/07/2021) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Jan Michiel Nolanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Childs
• Dr Eldre Beukes
• George Foy
• Roger Wilson-Hinds
• Stephen Critoph
• William Ogden · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST.

• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• DISABILITY POSITIVE income £4.2m
• HEARING IMPAIRMENT AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT SUPPORT UK income £104k
• UK DEAF SPORT income £386k
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
• Deaf Choices UK Limited income £274k

Side by side with its peers

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