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Registered charity · London

The Royal Association for Deaf People

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.royaldeaf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Association for Deaf People
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.1m£3.5m
  • 2024£2.5m£3.4m
  • 2023£2.4m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£3.3m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 45% · Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL SOCIAL AND GENERAL WELFARE OF DEAF PEOPLE. (B) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Grants received

19 grants · £2,671,808 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,431,076 (10 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £85,100
  • Home Office · £65,609 (4 grants)
  • Greater London Authority · £38,806
  • HM Revenue & Customs · £31,449

Most recent

  • HM Revenue & Customs £31,4492023-10-20
  • Home Office £3,5002023-09-29
  • Greater London Authority £38,8062023-08-14
  • Home Office £14,1362021-04-01
  • Home Office £21,5422021-04-01
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.

9 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
2
trustees past 6 years
4.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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

Health and social care 9Business services 2Arts and leisure 1

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£3.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.9 in 2021

72 from 70 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.
49%
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
1081949
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11TH APRIL 2000 as amended on 30 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 03973353 · Active
Contact on the register
03006882525 · info@royaldeaf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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