## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 April 2023 Period start date To 31 March 2024 Period end date Charity name: Hearing Impairment & Visual Impairment Support UK Charity registration number: 1166368** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Raising awareness of the public in**
**relation to the challenges faced by dual**
**sensory impaired people including by**
**highlighting the needs of people living**
**with acquired dual sensory impairments**
**and associated acquitted**
**communication disorders; and**
**Advancing the education and skills of**
**those caring for people with or facing,**
**dual sensory impairment, in order to**
**improve the conditions of life of such**
**people.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Hi-Vis UK continues to raise awareness**
**of dual sensory loss through resources**
**on our websitewww.hi-vis.org and**
**through the delivery of training and**
**talks to local authorities, third sector**
**organisations, NHS organisations and**
**individuals throughout England.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**I can confirm that the trustees have**
**understood the guidance on public**
**benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Hi-Vis UK continues to establish itself**
**as a leader in providing information,**
**advice, support and training for**
**individuals and organisations**
**concerned with or affected by dual**
**sensory loss.**
**Advances in security software**
**requirements meant that we had to**
**upgrade our online learning platform to**
**continue to allow free access to anyone**
**in England who is interested in**
**understanding the impacts of dual**
**sensory loss, and how mobility, access**
**to information and communication**
**issues impacts on increasing numbers**
**of older people with the condition.**
**We have also continued to deliver**
**accredited and unaccredited training to**
**a range of people from charitable, public**
**and NHS organisations.**
**We have continued to develop online**
**resources, new courses and email**
**bulletins to advise front line**
**professionals how to communicate and**
**support older and vulnerable people**
**who are isolating**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Our main source of income comes from**
**delivering affordable training to local**
**authorities and NHS Organisations. This**
**has increased slightly this financial year**
**due to the increase in older people**
**requiring services from local authorities**
**in line with their entitlement under the**
**Care Act 2014 and more organisations**
**becoming aware of our dservices**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Not Applicable at this time**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**0**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**At this stage of our development we**
**utilise almost all of our income in the**
**delivery of our charitable objectives**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not Applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|Para 1.25|**Appointed**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Hearing Impairment & Visual Impairment Support UK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Hi-Vis UK| |Registered charity number|1166368| |Charity’s principal address|The Centre for Independent Living
Burbank Street
Hartlepool
TS24 7NY| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Sutton|Chair||| ||Karen Winspear|||| ||Janice Lavers|||| ||Dr Richelle Duffy|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|_David A Sutton_|| |---|---|---| ||David Andrew Sutton|| ||
Chair|| ||14thOctober 2024|| ||14thOctober 2024|| |**Hearing Impairment & Visual Impairment Support UK**|**Hearing Impairment & Visual Impairment Support UK**|**1166368**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |1-Apr-23
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31-Mar-24||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**34,171**
**951**
**560**
**2,996**
**41,637**
**14,170**
**4,136**
**11,260**
**-**
**109,881**
**4,136**
**-**
**4,136**
**114,017**
**2,193**
**-**
**-**
**2,193**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**34,171**
**951**
**560**
**2,996**
**41,637**
**14,170**
**4,136**
**11,260**
**-**
**109,881**
**4,136**
**-**
**4,136**
**114,017**

**2,193**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,210**
**34,171**
**951**
**560**
**2,996**
**41,637**
**14,170**
**4,136**
**11,260**
**-**
**109,881**
**4,136**
**-**
**4,136**
**114,017**

**2,193**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Income from trainingactivities|**116,210**|||||**109,177**| |Donation|**-**|||||**3,262**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**116,210**|||||**112,439**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**112,439**| |||||||| |Salaries & NI|**34,171**|||||**33,407**| |Pension|**951**|||||**948**| |Insurance|**560**|||||**550**| |Telephone,internet, postage|**2,996**|||||**2,016**| |Cost of charitable activities|**41,637**|||||**48,146**| |Online resources and developments|**14,170**|||||**13,040**| |Professional fees|**4,136**|||||**3,940**| |Travel & Accommodation|**11,260**|||||**9,173**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**109,881**|||||**111,220**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |**Computer Equipment**|**4,136**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,136**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**111,220**| |||||||| ||**2,193**|**-**|**-**|
**2,193**||**1,219**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**2,193**|**-**|**-**|**2,193**||**1,219**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
_David Sutton_|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,193**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
David Sutton|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||_David Sutton_|David Sutton|14-Oct-24| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 Alan Morton 14 Cellar Hill Terrace Houghton le Spring Tyne & Wear DH4 4EB 4 October 2024 David Sutton Hearing Impairnient & Visual Imp2irment Support UK Centre for Independent Living Burbank Street Hartlepool TS24 7NY Independent Examiner'5 Report for The Trustees of Hearing Impairnient & Wisual Impairment Support UK Dear David My report to the trustees of my examination of the accounts of Hearing Impairment & Visual Impairment Support UK in year ended 31 March 2024. Responsibilities and ba515 of report As the chartty trustees you are responsible for the prepardtion of the accounr5 in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Att')- I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's account5 carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examirotion I have followed all the applicable Direttions given by the Chariry Commission under section 145(5){b) of the ACL Independent examinerfs Statement I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause co believe that in any materol respect: l. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Affj or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I h2ve no COr￿eMS and have come across no other matters in connection with the e>2mination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts co be reached. Yours faithfulty .k A12n Morton