Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association (A company limited guarantee)
Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31st of May 2021
Charity number: 1103335 Company number: 05038090
Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association (A company limited by guarantee)
Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 May 2021
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| Legal and administrative information | 3 |
| Report of the Management Committee | 4 |
| Unaudited accounts | 10 |
| Independent examiner’s report | 12 |
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Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association
Report of the Management Committee for the year ended 31 May 2021
The Management Committee presents its directors’ report and independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2021.
Reference and Administrative Information
Charity Name: Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association Charity registration number: 1103335 Company registration number: 05038090
Registered office: LOCKYER HALL 27A MORLEY ROAD, POKESDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH BH5 2JJ
Address for correspondence: 25 PORTMAN ROAD, BOSCOMBE, BOURNEMOUTH BH7 6EU
Management Committee
Mr Keith Simmons Chair
Mr George Raggett Trustee Miss Donna Cheese Trustee
Administrator – Zoe Keeping, 25 Portman Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth BH7 6EU
Independent Examiner – Robert Field BSc FCA, AIMS Accountants, 9 Hinton Wood Avenue, Bournemouth BH23 5AB
Bankers - HSBC
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Our Aims and Objectives
Purposes and Aims
Our charity’s purpose as set out in the objects in the company’s memorandum of association is to:
- TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF DEAF AND HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE RESIDING IN OR CONNECTED WITH WILTSHIRE (INCLUDING SWINDON) AND DORSET ("THE OBJECTS").
The aims of our charity are to offer a range of services to ensure that deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people in Dorset and Wiltshire enjoy equal access, opportunity and have the same independence as hearing people and to provide information about the services available across Dorset and Wiltshire, to offer assistance and act as an advocate in the campaign for equal access for all. Our charity also offers a range of training courses, including deaf awareness, communication tactics and British Sign Language. Our aims fully reflect the purposes that the charity was set up to further.
Ensuring our work delivers our aims
We review our aims, objectives and activities each year. This review looks at what we achieved and the outcomes of our work in the previous 12 months. The review looks at the success if each key activity and the benefits they have brought to those groups of people we are set up to help. The review also helps us to ensure our aim, objectives and activities remained focused on our stated purposes. We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aim and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.
The focus of our work
Our main objectives for the year continued to be to:
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Promote Deaf Awareness.
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Increase access to information and services in BSL.
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Provide advocacy and sign posting to connect service providers and the
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deaf communities.
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Increase the involvement of all deaf people in the actions needed to achieve the aims of the Charity
The strategies we used to meet these objectives included:Provision of courses and training in Deaf Awareness and communication including Lip Speaking and Sign Language
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Maintaining a signposting service via our website.
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Provision of financial support to deaf people to access courses and training.
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Provision of financial and other support to the training and development of BSL Interpreters.
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Campaigning and events.
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How our activities deliver public benefit
Our main activities and who we try to help are described below. All our charitable activities focus on increasing public awareness to ensure that deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people in Dorset and Wiltshire enjoy equal access, opportunity and have the same independence as hearing people and are undertaken to further our charitable purposes for the public benefit.
Who used and benefited from our services
The main areas of charitable activity are the provision of British Sign Language and Deaf Communication Skills training. These activities and the achievements that flow from our work are described below:
Signature accredited training courses
The charity is a Signature approved centre with accreditation from the UK’s leading awarding body in deaf communication qualifications and delivers a portfolio of qualifications including Level 1 British Sign Language, Level 2 British Sign Language, Level 3 British Sign Language and Deaf & Deafblind Communication Skills and Tactics.
Enrolment for our 2020/21 BSL Level 1, 2 and 3 classes went online this year with courses promoted via our website and social media channels. All classes ran at reduced capacity to enable the Charity to comply with Covid secure measures in a classroom setting. A £5,000 Discretionary Business Grant from BCP Council has helped to mitigate loss of income.
This year saw the charity’s BSL Level 1, 2 & 3 students (20/21 intake) achieve 100% of their personal learning goals against all the odds, as the charity navigated Covid restrictions and switched from classroom to online lessons and back again.
Bespoke training packages
We delivered two Deaf Awareness and Communication Skills training courses for the Pro Ability Team at Royal Bournemouth Hospital. 30 hospital staff attended in total. The success of these courses led to the Charity being commissioned by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a programme of full day courses for hospital staff across three different sites which generated £8,900 in income. Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and pressures on NHS staff has caused a significant delay to the commencement of this training programme so we are yet to incur any of the normal costs associated with training delivery.
Deaf awareness and communication skills training
A grant from The National Lottery Community Fund enabled us to deliver 15 free Online Bite Sized Deaf Communication Skills training sessions during the national lockdown for local organisations, businesses and workplaces. 112 individual learners attended these sessions.
Campaigning
We launched our ‘Make It Clear!’ Campaign on 1st July 2020 with the aim of helping to prevent further barriers to communication for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing community in
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our local area during the coronavirus crisis. With the support of The National Lottery Fund, Dorset Community Foundation and Tesco Bags of Help we were able to distribute 2000 reusable clear face panel masks to help raise awareness of the communication issues caused by the wearing of face masks. The public was invited to share photos of them wearing their clear face panel mask on their Social Media channels using the #makeitclear hashtag. This campaign attracted press coverage in Dorset Echo and local radio.
This year saw a significant uptake in requests for the charity’s ‘Hard of Hearing’ and ‘Deaf’ Communication Cards. The purpose of the wallet-sized cards is to help identify people immediately as deaf and that there is a need for communications support. The card also includes details of local BSL interpreter services and a 24-hour contact number so that healthcare providers/service providers know how to book a BSL interpreter. Our Hard of Hearing Communication Cards offer a clear and concise list of prompts to help aid communication.
Events
Government restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic prevented the charity from carrying out our annual Summer Family Fun Day and Christmas Party this year.
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Financial Review
The Charity generated a very positive financial outcome for the period with a net increase in funds of almost £10,000. It’s success in obtaining new funding from University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in addition to government support in the form of a Discretionary Business Grant from BCP Council for £5,000 will provide the Charity with much needed additional resources that will allow us to provide subsidised places on its BSL qualification courses, financial support to deaf people to access courses and training and financial and other support to the training and development of BSL Interpreters.
The Charity’s bank balance as at 31 May 2020 was £36,854.70. This includes £16,456.83 of restricted and unrestricted grant income carried forward from previous years. This also includes £8,900 income from UHD for delivery of a training programme that was due to start in March 2021 but was delayed due to the pandemic and pressures on NHS staff. The Charity will need to ensure that sufficient monies to meet the future costs of delivering this training programme and retained within its budget.
The Charity operates without any reserves. The Charity does not employ any staff or hold any liabilities.
Structure, Governance and Management
Organisational Structure
Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association has a Management Committee of at least three and not more than twenty-one individuals, all of whom must be members of the Charity. At present the Committee has three members from a variety of professional backgrounds relevant to the work of the Charity. The Management Committee meets at least twice a year.
The Trustees as Charity Trustees have control of the Charity and its property and its funds. Governing Document
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 9 February 2004 and registered as a charity on 22 April 2004. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. In the event of the company being wound up members are required to pay up to £1 towards the costs of dissolution and the liabilities incurred by the Charity while the contributor was a member.
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g., election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees
The directors of the company are also Charity Trustees for the purposes of charity law and under the Company’s Articles are known as members of the Management Committee. Under the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association one third of the Trustees must retire at each AGM, those longest in office retiring first.
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All members of the Management Committee give their time voluntarily and received no benefits from the Charity.
Mr Keith Simmons, Mr George Raggett and Miss Donna Cheese retire by rotation and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
The Management Committee seeks to ensure that the needs of the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing community are appropriately reflected through the diversity of the trustee body. To enhance the potential pool of trustees, the Charity has sought to identify individuals with direct experience of living with hearing loss, children of deaf adults and/or working with the deaf community who would be willing to become members of the Charity and use their own experience to assist the Charity.
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Resp<¥nslbllitles of the Management Committee Company law requires the maThageNt Committee to prepare financial ststements for each finanaal year which give a true and fairview of the state of the affairs of the charitable company as at the balance sheet date and its incoming $oUrCeS and application of resources, including irorne and expenditure. forthe financial year. In pparing1hO$e finanaal statements, the Management Commtttee 5houhl follow best practice and.. Selert suÈtable accounti poltcies aNI tren applythem c¢)nsistently: Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and Pfudent.. and Prepare the financial statements on the Èoing concern basis unless it is not appropriate to assume that the companywill continue on that basi5. The Management Committee is responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which di%k)se with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enab them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. The Management Committee 15 also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularr(ies Membersofthe Mana ement Committee Members of the Management Committee. who are directors forthe purpose of company law and trustees for the purpose of tharity law, who served durin8 the yeai and up to the date of this rewrt are set out oft page 3. In accordance wÈth company law. as the companrfs dirertors. we certify that Sofar as we are aware. there is no reknnt audit inforn)ation of which the companrfs auditors are unaware," and Asthe directors of the cornpany. we have taken all the steps that we ought to have taken in orderto make ourselves aware of any relewdnt audtt infomiation and to establish that the charitrfs auditors are aware of that information. Independent ExamiMr The Charivs annual incorne for the year ended 31st May 2021 vtss over £25.000. Accordingly. the trLfStees appointed Robert Field Bsc FCA to carry out an independent examinath)n of the chariivs accounts. Approved by the Management Committee on . Mr Keith Simmons (DIrecr). zz Date:
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinees Report Report to the trusteesl members of THE WIL TSHIREAND DORSETDEAFASSOCIA TION On accounts for the year ended 31m5r2021 Charity no {rf any) 1103335 Set out on pages 1- 2ofthe-ThIE TSHIREAND DORSETDEAFASSOCIA TION- I re to the truslees my eXamThti oflhe acoMIls Lrft ab& charity {Ihe Tnr) for the year 3t105r2021 ResponslblVtf•s and b#$ts As the ctsity's Itees. yuj are re¥Thsibb for the prepwaticm Of accwnts in ol report l Feport resped d my (rf the Trust'5 acujunls (3rreJ wt under sth 145 01 the 2011 Att in cawyirvJ out my exam1r1. I have fokJweJ all the apble given ty ts Charity Comrnkssion undèr11( 14515llbl ofth8A 1s)dwndent examlnerfs I have comFAot4d wny 8xaminalion. I crnfi that material rn8tters have cxyne to statEment my attenL in connxinn wilh exaThtinth gives me ra¢Jse lo bdieve that in. any maieAal r&% the accountirKJ r8ccts w6r8 kept in acrxydanc& sèclion 130 ofthe Charities Prt or the aCcjnts dAI not uxnply wtth the appkatAe requifemenls r4)n1mIng tl fcfim and eont8nl set wt in thg Chartbes IAciXjts and Reports) RegulatKxB 2(K18 other than requiromont that the acct)unts give 8 Irue an(J fa¢r' whith is not a matter nsIded as pgri ofan wthpendent exammaiK)n. Ihe examination Èo which 3ttèniK)n shoulj be ¢Jrawn in thks reKX)rt in ord8rto Date: 1910712022 Signgd: Name: ROBERT FIELD Bsc FCA prnf4ssSonal quaafiGationl$l or body Irf pyl- g HIoN W(M)D AVENUE BH23 SAB ER O¢t 2018
THE WILTSHIRE AND DORSEf DEAF ASSOCIATION RECBPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 0110612020 TO 3110V2021 UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL FUNDS FUNDS RECEiIFrs: 2.8&3 13.5(K) 21,085 37,437 Grants Tr¥ 13.5(rf) 21.085 37.437 Tolal lpts 37.437 37.437 PAYMENTS: TrdinwwJ 12.131 12.131 8.830 27,649 8,830 27,649 27.649 27.649 {DEFT)SURpLUs FOR YEAR 9.788 CASH FUNDS 311092020 27.1%7 27,C67 CASH FUNDS 31102{r21 36.855 ATEMENT F ASSEfs ILMES 3110512021 CASH FUNDS: 36.855 Tolal cash fvtKts FIXED ASSETS.. Equi 3239 3.239 Total inveslment assets 3.Y39 3.239 TOTAL SOCIETY ASSETS 40,091 Approv&J on tehawof MR.KSlMKs DATE. li 2of2 FINAL