## **Canterbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf** 

## **Trustees’ report and accounts** 

**For the year ended 31[st] December 2024** 

**Charity Number – 1205243** 

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## **Legal and Administrative Information** 

Charity number: 1205243 registered CIO Foundation Charity 

## **Banker:** 

Lloyds Bank 49, High Street Canterbury CT1 2SE 

## **Trustees:** 

Canon Miranda Ford – Chair Revd. Dr. Jonathan Arnold – Vice Chair Mary Mohanaei Jonathan Palmer (from June 2024) 

## **Other Officers:** 

Liz Mincer – Secretary Peter Mincer - Treasurer 

## **Correspondence Address:** 

Canterbury Diocese, c/o Canon Miranda Ford Lady Wootton’s Green Canterbury CT1 1NQ 

## **Contact:** 

Canon Miranda Ford Chair of Trustees Hollyhocks 17, Tanner’s Street Faversham ME13 7JP 

trigpointx@gmail.com 07774 128128 

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**The Trustees of the Charity present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2024** 

## **Governing Document and Constitution:** 

The Governing Document has been registered with the Charity Commission under charity number 1205243. 

## **Organisation Structure:** 

The Charity is managed by a board of Trustees who meet quarterly. The Trustees of the Charity are listed on the Trustees page. 

They are recruited either from the Canterbury Diocesan team, volunteers or from the Deaf community. 

## **Objectives and activities:** 

Objectives stated on the Charity Commission Website are “To relieve the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people in the diocese of Canterbury in particular to promote their spiritual, social and general welfare and their inclusion in society. 

To provide activities and support for the Deaf community in the Canterbury Diocese and East of the Medway. Details on the Charity commission website. 

The Trustees confirm they have referred to the Charity commission’s general guidance relating to their objectives. 

## **Performance and achievements:** 

During 2024 the charity prepared the Deaf Club Margate for the closure of the Deaf Centre building in Dane Hill, Margate. This was being prepared for sale from January 2025. 

The Deaf Club activities have continued during the year although the kitchen was not safe or fit for purpose and the club members were not allowed to use the facility, with a firm no access order in place. 

Deaf Club Margate have moved activities to Westgate Social Club, where they continue to meet twice a month for social days. There are plans to support them in future activities within the wider community. 

The charity joined with the Deaf Club for a closing event in December 2024. 

The charity continues negotiations and discussions with Canterbury Diocese about the sale of the property and the dispersal of funds from the sale of the Deaf Centre. 

A Chaplain to the Deaf is still a need in the Diocese, as there is nobody able to meet the spiritual needs of the Deaf community in the Canterbury diocese.  Volunteer BSL interpreted services continue but these do not fulfil what is needed. 

Income has relied on our investments and we continue to look towards grant fundraising for the future as well as some percentage of funding from the net sale of the Deaf Club. 

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## **Financial Review:** 

The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis. 

## **Reserves:** 

These are reliant on the investment income; we have sufficient reserves to continue for a year. The expenditure needed will increase as the Charity develops its work. 

## **Risk Management:** 

The Trustees are reviewing all areas of major risk and will ensure that action is taken to mitigate such. 

## **Canterbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf Financial Activities** 

Signature: 

Date:  12 June 2025 


Canon Miranda Ford 

Chair of Trustees on behalf of the Board of Trustees 

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## **Independent Examiner’s Statement** 

I have completed my examination of the Canterbury Diocesan Association For The Deaf accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give me cause to believe that in any material respect accounting records were not kept in accordance with Section 130 of the Charities Act 2011 or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 


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|**Balance sheet at 31st December 2024**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2024**|**2023**|
|**Fixed Assets**|||
|None - Margate Deaf club belongs to the Canterbury|||
|Diocese Board of Finance.|0|0|
|**Current Assets**|||
|Securites with Central Board of Finance|||
|Share investments (current market value)|81,543|75,462|
|Fixed interest securites|0|0|
|Deposits with Diocesan board of fnance|0|0|
|Debtors (Margate Deaf club)|0|0|
|Current Account|6562|5,571|
|**Liabilites**|||
|Auditors|0|-120|
|General fund|0|0|
|**Total net funds**|88,105|80,913|



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|**Income and expenditure for period ending 31st December**|**Income and expenditure for period ending 31st December**|**Income and expenditure for period ending 31st December**|
|---|---|---|
|**2024**|||
||**2024**|**2023**|
|**Income**|||
|**Investment Income**|||
|C.B.F. securites paid to Bank current account *|2,213|2,179|
|Proft on sale of shares|0|0|
|**Other income**|||
|Donatons|0|0|
|Lloyds bank compensaton|0|99|
|**Expenditure**|||
|Total Administraton costs|1,112|2,660|
|**Surplus/Defcit**|1,101|-382|
|* CBF payments as follows: £551 on 29/2/24,|||
|£551 on 31/5/24, £551 on 30/8/24 and £560 on|||
|29/11/24|||



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## **Administraton costs for period ending 31st December 2024** 

||**202**|||
|---|---|---|---|
||**4**|**2023**||
|Accountancy|0|1,000||
|Audit|0|120||
||||Expense|
|Donaton to Margate Signs of God|0|500|contributon|
|Secretarial/Trustees expenses|0|0||
|Communicaton support|360|20||
|Sundry expenses|10|0||
|Margate Deaf club||||
|Insurance|927|1,229||
|Repairs|0|0||
|Less insurance recharge to Margate Deaf||||
|club|-400|-500||
|Insurance refund|0|-342||
|Deaf club water bill|0|331||
|Deaf club loan|0|1,000||
|Deaf club asbestos report|0|156||
|Deaf club refund|0|-1,331||
|BSL Services||||
|BSL Service minister *|100|200||
|BSL Service Birchington hall hire|45|250||
|BSL service sundry expenses|70|27||
|* P Beschizza £50 on 02/4/24 and £50 on|04/11/24.|||
|Net expenditure|1,112|2,660||



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