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DEAFHISTORY scotland
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Annual Report 2024/2025
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Scottish Charity Number: SC041146
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Annual Statement
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| Receipts and Payments Account .................00000cceeeeeeeeeeee |
| Notes on the Receipts andPayments Account .................. 10 |
| Independent Examiner's Report to the Executive |
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Executive Committee Report
The DHS AGM 2024 was held at Perth Art Gallery on Saturday 26"" October 2024 and was well attended by members and non-members. There were five vacancies on the DHS Executive Committee andne were elected for three years.iccepted the nominations and would serve on the Executive Committee for a year or two. There was a book launch of “Aberdeen & North East Deaf Society 1895-1995" I gave a brief account of the book and he then gave a cheque of £1,000 to DHS, on behalf of St John’s Church, Aberdeen.
5212 2 presentation on how the Donaldson's Collection was acquired and the current conservation work. Then gave a short and interesting presentation on the life and work of= EE Deaf Painter from Perth. His presentation was followed by a slide showa P| paintings that are stored in the Perth Art Gallery. eeher “Honorary Membership” certificate in recognition of herit! steadfast and valued contributions to DHS. When the AGM was concluded, DHS members and non-members were invited to view a selection ofMEaintings in the basement. The DHS Executive Committee had their meetings three times and had co-opted P| GE (with her archival expertise) and MM (with youth experience) to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee had discussed a wide range of topics. They also received reports from members who had attended meetings that were organised by other organisations like Deaf Action and BDA Scotland. P has worked hard with the Scottish Deaf Archive, clearing the backlog of acquisitions, placing them in archival boxes. DHS continue to receive donations of photographs, reports, mementos, leaflets, minutes, books and equipment. We are most grateful to have these acquisitions to our Scottish Deaf Archives. To accommodate the
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Donaldson’s Collection and other acquisitions, we bought more shelving units and boxes.
DHS have written a Collections Care and Conservation Policy and Disaster Plan for the Scottish Deaf Archive
To help DHS fully catalogue the Scottish Deaf Archive and engage with Deaf people, especially young Deaf people, DHS successfully applied for a cataloguing grant of £50,000 from Archives Revealed, a partnership programme supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and the National Archives. Recruitment for a Project Archivist has started and it is hoped that the post will be filled by end of October 2025.
On 15"" November 2024, DHS was invited to give a presentation on the “BDA history - BDAScottish AGM.links”Theto presentationBDA members waswho jointlyhad givencomebyfromTTall over the UK to Glasgow forcrcthe was also a DHS stall which made an excellent sale of books and other merchandise. DHS members volunteered to help with catering. On Sunday 17'" November 2024, ned a group of BDA members on a tour of Glasgow Deaf Heritage.
DHS was in demand to give talks or take part in events: Fife Deaf Group about DHS on 6th May 2025: Hamilton Deaf School about Deaf History on 8" January 2025; the launch of the Brennan Library on 22" April 2025; the book launch of “St Vincent's Deaf History” at the Glasgow City Chambers on 26" February 2025; and Fife Deaf Communication Services’ “BSL Culture Day” in Kirkcaldy on 18 March 2025 and Former Pupils of Donaldson's School event at Deaf Action on 14" June 2025 -: a presentation about the Edinburgh Deaf & Dumb Institution, Donaldson's Hospital and Donaldson's School. DHS and Scottish Sensory Centre jointly held two events about the Edinburgh BSL Research Project at Forth Valley Sensory Centre, Falkirk — for deaf children and teachers in November 2024 and for adults in March 2025. Both events wereSensoryEdinburghveryCentre)wellDeafattended. Festivalgave a workshop[NK2025 on 10"about AgiaOHS)the Edinburgh anc iodBSL Research a groupProject(Scottish of 17 Americanat the
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students and lecturers from Philadelphia on a tour of Glasgow Deaf Heritage on 17" May 2025.
DHS was awarded funding from Solar Bear to organise a tour of Glasgow Deaf Heritage and an art workshop for young deaf people. This tour and workshop took place on 26" July 2025. Unfortunately, there was only one participant and however, the tour went ahead. Afterwards, the participant with a few others enjoyed the day, specially creating art work depicting knickerbocker glory. It was explained in the tour that young deaf people used to go to the Mocka Bar for the knickerbocker glory after attending the youth fellowship.
During the Edinburgh Deaf Festival, DHS opened the Scottish Deaf Archive rooms to visitors who enjoyed viewing the selected archives and artefacts. We were hondured to have Breda Carty, Deaf historian from Australia visiting the Scottish Deaf Archives. On 12'" September 2025, a large group of people from Newcastle and Sunderland came to Deaf Action and had the opportunity to have a look in the Archive room. Po EEV0 lunteered to talk to this group.
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DHS and Deaf Action continue to have a strong working relationship and a Memorandum of Understanding between DHS and Deaf Action was signed on 26" February 2025. DHS and Deaf Action have had a couple of meetings.
Research work on the history of Glasgow Deaf & Dumb Institution/Glasgow Deaf School SIRis still ongoing withtorsescstrips to theformerMitchellpupilsLibrary.in front of a camcorder. kindly volunteered to research magazines in the Scottish Sensory Library, Moray House School of Education in Edinburgh. It is hoped that a book will be ready for publication in 2026.nnaised funds towards the cost of publishing the book.
DHS was invited byof Sign Vine to have the 2025 Spring Gathering in the Vinery, Banff on Saturday 19" April 2025. The Spring Gathering was well attended and there were people attending from Orkney and Bristol! There were three presentations: “History of Aberdeen & North East Deaf Society” by iii “Deaf Orcadian History Project” byageae:years old fromrtBuckie, was Deafinterviewed Fraudster”by by bout her education, work and life. [was a remarkable lady, ably answering all questions. Everyone at the Spring Gathering agreed it was a great gathering.
DHS supported the set up and opening of the Brennan Library at Deaf Action, a reference only library of deaf history, culture and linguistics. DHS contributed books and Carrie Skinner volunteered to helpI Deaf Action’s Office Manager finish the library after the departure of Deaf Action’s Heritage Officer.
o'ganised a sponsored walk on the Fife Coastal Path from Kirkcaldy to Newport-on-Tay on 16" to 21% June 2025. She walked a total of 60 miles in five days walk (from Kirkcaldy to Leven), on the second day of the walk (from Leven and was supported Meee ee the first day of the
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toNewport-on-Tay). St Monans)a:posted videos theand fifthviogs& lastat daythe ofend theof walk each (fromday on TentsmuirDHS to Facebook, helping to raise the profile of DHS and raise money for the Scottish Deaf Archive. To date, a grand sum of £7,960 was raised. DHSis truly grateful to many people for sponsoringpo Work on revamping the DHS website is still ongoing. It is planned to have videos of past DHS events uploaded to the website as well as a digital library of photographs. We continue to constantly post latest information and photographs on our Facebook page, and this has certainly helped to raise the profile of DHS. We also regularly send reports and articles to British Deaf History Society for inclusion in their “Deaf History Journal”.
We would like to acknowledge the great support from Deaf Action for allowing us to store our Scottish Deaf Archive and display our books and merchandise in their building. We also thank all the members for their continuing support, attendance at our events, donations and acquisitions for the Scottish Deaf Archives. Thank you!
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Executive Committee
Bankers: Santander, PO Box 1109, Bradford, BD1 5ZJ
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Deaf History Scotland
Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 30th September 2025
| 3 | £ | ||
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| 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | ||
| Receipts | |||
| Gift Aid | 1014 | 0 | |
| Grants | 24,500 | 500 | |
| Book sales | 2774 | 2190 | |
| Merchandise sales | 35 | 55 | |
| Membership fees Donations |
1105 259 |
1121 898 |
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| Donations forGSD Book | 210 | 682 | |
| Scottish Deaf History Tartan | 163 | 230 | |
| Scottish DeafArchives | 10726 | 1158 | |
| Event Fees | 170 | 590 | |
| Catering | is | ¢) | |
| Total Receipts | 41029 | 7424 | |
| Payments | |||
| Deaf History Journals | 683 | 620 | |
| Administration costs | 23 | wo | |
| DHS AGM | 194 | 493 | |
| Executive Committee expenses | 261 | 309 | |
| Spring Gathering | 250 | 100 | |
| Scottish DeafArchives | 1410 | 5376 | |
| Cataloguing Project | 11 | 0 | |
| GSD Book Project | 101 | 0 | |
| Publications | 890 | 965 | |
| PayPal fees | 14 | 13 | |
| Merchandise (inc. tartan) | 127 | 644 | |
| Miscellaneous | 255 | 158 | |
| Gratituties | 20 | 250 | |
| Total Payments | 4238 | 8979 | |
| Surplus/ (Deficit) forthe year | 36,790 | (1555) | |
| £ | z | ||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| Bank Opening Balance | 10,482 | 12,037 | |
| Surplus/ (deficit) for the year | 36,790 | (1585) | |
| ClosingBalance | 47.272 | 10.482 |
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Notes on the Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 30" September 2025
1. Accounting policies
The accounts are drawn up on the historical cost basis of accounting and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting by Charities’.
2. PayPal Account
The PayPal Account was set up in the financial year of 2016/2017.
| Fund carried forward | £987.36 |
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| Receipts received: | + £307.00 |
| £1,294.36 | |
| Less PayPal fees | (£13.81) |
| £1,280.55 | |
| Transfer to Santander Bank | £1,000 |
| Balanceat30September2025: | £280.55 |
3. Dedicated Funds
| 3. Dedicated Funds | ||||
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| Balance at | Incoming | Resources | Balance at | |
| 1**October | Resources | Expended | 30' September | |
| 2024 | 2025 | |||
| 3 | £ | E | S | |
| Publications Fund | 3,786 | 2,744 | 890 | 5,640 |
| Scottish DeafArchive | 644 | 11,120 | 1,410 | 10,354 |
| 4430 | 13,864 | 2,300 | 15,994 |
a) Publications Fund
The Publications Fund is to cover costs of printing future DHS publications. This fund was used towards the cost of printing the “Aberdeen & North East Deaf Society 1895-1995” (£890). Income raised from book sales in this financial year (£2,744) was added to the Publications Fund.
b) Scottish Deaf Archive
In 2024, the Executive Committee set up an appeal to members and supporters of DHS to raise money for the Donaldson’s Collection’s conservation costs initially. Since 18 October 2024, DHS received more donations for this appeal, totally £3,160. For the sponsored Fife Coastal Walk, a total of £7,566 was donated. In addition to this latter sum, DHS received £394.15 from HMRC Gift
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Aid scheme. Therefore, the total fund in the Scottish Deaf Archive is £10,354. Dehumidifiers, shelving units and archival storage boxes were purchased, costing £1,410.
4. Restricted Funds
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a) Glasgow Deaf School History Book Project: DHS received a grant of £500 for this project from the Mackichan Bursary in the last financial year and £182 of donations. In this financial year, more donations totalling £210 were received. The Glasgow Deaf School History Book sub-group had meetings, thus incurring expenditure of £101.40. Therefore, the total fund for this project is £791,
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b) East Dunbartonshire BSL Access Group: This group received a grant of £2,000 from East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action (EDVA). Because this group has not yet opened a bank account, the EDVA agreed for the group to bank the grant in DHS’ bank account until when the group has opened a bank account.
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c) Cataloguing Project: DHS was awarded a grant of £50,000 from Archives Revealed for a cataloguing project. The grant is being paid to DHS in thtee instalments. The first one of £22,500 was received in September 2025. There wasa Claim for travel expenses incurred for attending a first meeting of the Cataloguing Project Advisory Committee - £11.15. Therefore, the restricted fund for this project is now £22,488.85.
5. Total Funds at 30 September 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | |
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| £ | £ | |
| Dedicated funds | 15,994 | 4,430 |
| Restricted funds | 25,280 | 0 |
| General funds | 5,696 | 5,065 |
| Cash in hand | 21 | 0 |
| PayPal Account | 281 | 987 |
TotalFunds |
47,272 | 10,482 |
Approved by:
- Margaret Aitken, DHS Convenor \W\ cutken
Lilian K Lawson OBE, DHS Secretary/Treasurer ~<C_-/© ~~ Date: [11/025
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Executive Committee of DHS | report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30'" September 2025 which are set out on pages 9-11. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity's Executive Committee acting as trustees is responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity’s trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the 2006 Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the 2005 Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s statement
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required of an audit, and consequently, | do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
Independent examiner’s statement
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: * to keep accurate records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and * to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations have not been met, or to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. signed.....f OS ce
Name: Matthew King ACCA
Address: c/o Sorenson Unit 4 39 Durham Street Glasgow G41 1BS
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