**Hearing Ambassadors – Annual Report- 2022-2023** |**Charity Name**|Hearing Ambassadors| |---|---| |**Registration**
**Number**|1187089| |**Address**|Robin Lye, Windmill Lane, Eyam, Hope Valley, Derbyshire
S32 5RJ| ||| |**Trustees**|Dr Cheryle Berry MBE| ||Andrew Campbell| ||Gillian Campbell| ||| |**Structure and**
**Management**|Hearing Ambassadors is managed by 3 Trustees
Chair – Dr Cheryle Berry MBE
Secretary – Gillian Campbell
Trustee – Andrew Campbell
We also have an HonoraryTreasurer, John Spalton
The Charity is managed by the Trustees, assisted by a Steering
Group of 5 volunteers. During 2022-23 Steering Group meetings
were held every 3 months. An approved record of every meeting is
held. The meeting minutes record actions (with owner and timeline),
decisions, and financial commitments.
No new Trustees have been recruited since the charity was started,
and there are no plans to recruit any new trustees. Should our plans
change, new Trustees will be recruited from our valued Steering
Group members.| ||| |**2022 - 2023**
**Activities and**
**Objectives**|Hearing Ambassadors overall objective is
“To educate the public on hearing well-being and in so doing to
enable the development of skills, strategies and competencies to
promote social inclusion regardless of hearing ability”
During 2022-23, we continued our special focus on young people
aged 8-14, helping them to understand the risks of noise induced
hearing loss due to one very loud sound, like a firework, or
prolonged exposure to the sort of loud music experienced at gigs,
pubs, gyms, bars, and games consoles by reinforcing positive
behaviours.| ||| |**2022 - 2023**
**Achievements and**
**Public Benefit**|Now that the restrictions on face-to-face meetings have been lifted,
this year, Hearing Ambassadors have not only given hearing
awareness presentations to many Charities and other Organisations
in Scotland, England and Wales, but we have also been interviewed
by BBC Radio Derby. We have been extending our reach
proactively by networking with other hearing support charities.
This year, we wanted to create something very special for young| **Hearing Ambassadors – Annual Report- 2022-2023** ||people, so we approached Derby University to ask if students from
their Applied Theatre MA Course could help us to produce a piece of
theatre which could be used to change young people’s perceptions of
loud music. The Course Leader, an Associate Professor, and two of
her MA students worked with around 20 young actors from Derby
Youth Theatre to co-create three new videos which will be launched
on our updated website as soon as it is available. In the lively
productions, the young people explain to their peers how hearing
works, how to recognise when noises are too loud and how to protect
themselves from loud sounds. They also explored what they need to
do to communicate with children who are hard of hearing.
The young actors created a new character called Loh (pronounced
Low and meaning Loss of hearing). Loh is a villain and uses
dastardly tricks to try to beat the Sound Warrior. See
www.SoundWarriors.org
to find out more.
We were very excited that half the cast were children from Derby
Deaf Youth Theatre, and the children seamlessly integrated young
people from both the hearing and non-hearing world. The children
took so much understanding from their work that we have decided to
develop the themes into half-day workshops for schools during 2023-
24, with an additional objective of achieving better integration with
deaf children.| |---|---| ||| |**2022 - 2023**
**Financial Review**|During the year we raised almost £2000 from donations and Speaker
Fees, and we spent about £4500 on Sound Warriors Video
productions, merchandise, and website development. £2500 of this
year’s spend came from reserves. The expenditure on the Sound
Warriors video will support future income generation through
presentations and speaker visits. We finished the year with sufficient
funds to meet essential expenditure for 2023-24.| ||| |**2022 - 2023**
**Funds held by**
**custodian trustee**|None| ## **Hearing Ambassadors** ## **Income & Expenditure for 12 months ending 5th April 2023** |**Income**|**2023**|||**2022**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations||1000.00||2605.00|| |Donations Gift Aided||171.28||1496.18|| |Workshops||0.00||0.00|| |Sponsorship||0.00||400.00|| |Sundry income||20.82||32.73|| |Grant||0.00||500.00|| |Speaker Fees||345.00||0.00|| |Gift Aid claim||44.05||374.00|| |**Total Income**|||1581.15||5407.91| |**Expenses**|||||| |Sundries||71.28||264.09|| |Video productions||4000.00||1245.90|| |Workshop hire fees||0.00||0.00|| |Meeting hire costs||0.00||191.80|| |Sound Warriors||262.98||1564.46|| |Name badges||0.00||0.00|| |Drop Box Fees||0.00||0.00|| |Equipment purchases||0.00||0.00|| |Website build & maintenance||332.57||333.61|| |**Total Expenses**|||4666.83||3599.86| |**Surplus**|||-3085.68||1808.05| |Funds brought forward|||3470.79||3470.79| |**Funds carried forward**|||385.11||| |**Represented by**|||||| |Bank|||331.58|3087.31|| |Payment in advance|||9.48|9.48|| |Gift Aid debtor|||44.05|374.00|| ||||385.11||3470.79| Honorary Treasurer WJK Spalton ACIB. 8th January 2024 ## INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS I have examined the accounts of the Hearing Ambassadors for the 12 months ended 5 April 2023 and in my opinion they represent a true and fair view of the Charity financial affairs and are in accordance with the records. Jon Sewell – Independent Examiner. JW Sewell ACIB– Independent Examiner Date 31-Jan-24 inc Amazon and interest +£ 0.06 error in GA provision in 2022.