# DEAF ASPIRATIONS

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1214014
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** July 8, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1214014


## Contact

- **Address:** Metec, ITEC R&D Enterprises, Reading Deaf Centre, 131-133 Cardiff Road, Reading, Berkshire
- **Postcode:** RG1 8JF
- **Phone:** 01491576281
- **Email:** ken.carter@deafaspirations.org
- **Website:** www.DeafAspirations.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG DEAF AND DEAFENED CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UK AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE, WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF DEAFNESS OR HEARING LOSS, RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, TRAINING AND EDUCATION DELIVERED IN ENGLISH, BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE (BSL) AND SIGN SUPPORTED ENGLISH (SSE) DESIGNED TO ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP WORK, LIFE AND SOCIAL SKILLS, BUILD CONFIDENCE TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES, MAXIMISE THEIR POTENTIAL IN BOTH THE DEAF AND HEARING WORLDS, PURSUE EMPLOYMENT AND BECOME DEAF ASPIRATIONAL LEADERS/ROLE MODELS.

**Activities:** Deaf Aspirations through its activities is reducing mental health and increasing well-being ;improving access in digital technologies and social media; including deaf people with some additional needs ; educating through leadership by motivation and mentoring via BSL/relevant communications ; teaching awareness of work skills-;creating deaf aspirational leaders through its successful projects.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Children/young People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies



## Areas of operation

- Buckinghamshire
- Hampshire
- Oxfordshire
- Reading
- Slough
- Surrey
- West Berkshire
- Windsor And Maidenhead
- Wokingham




## Trustees

- **Graham Dudley Hocking PGCE** (Chair) — appointed April 20, 2022
- Ilan Dwek PHD BSc — appointed April 6, 2022
- KENNETH CHARLES CARTER — appointed April 18, 2012
- Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq — appointed Sept. 8, 2014
- Sandra Isotta David BA, PGCE — appointed April 12, 2022
- Stewart Thomas Chessun AAT Interm — appointed March 9, 2020