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Royal School for the Deaf Derby

Royal School for the Deaf Derby is a registered charity (number 1062507) based in Derby, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Douglas Edward Bulger since 2018. Latest income £5.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £5.6m (2025)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability
Where
Derby City
Website
www.rsdd.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal School for the Deaf Derby
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.6m£5.5m
  • 2024£5.0m£4.9m
  • 2023£5.0m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£4.7m
  • 2021£5.0m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 71% · Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE DEAF AND SPEECH-IMPAIRED ("THE BENEFICIARIES"). 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION) OF THE BENEFICIARIES.

Grants received

9 grants · £126,068 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,8252022-01-20
  • Sport England £25,8322018-07-24
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £10,0002018-05-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £7,3002018-03-15
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,7442011-08-25
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

7.5y median 8y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 5Education/training 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 6Health and social care 4Professional services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

19.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.1 in 2021

102 from 112 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
95%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1062507
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 MAY 1997 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 JULY 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 26 JANUARY 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 03367515 · Active
Contact on the register
01332362512 · helen.radford@rsdd.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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