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Registered charity (CIO) · Lancashire

The Manchester Deaf Centre

The Manchester Deaf Centre is a registered charity (number 1110373) based in Lancashire, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Claire Lisa Cummings since 2024. Latest income £860k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Manchester Deaf Centre, MDC (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £860k (2025)
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Who leads it

Also 4 organisations acting as trustee: Almas Patankar, Claire Holland, Grace Cluskey, Sam Johnson.

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
Manchester City, Salford City, Bolton, Bury and more
Website
www.manchesterdeafcentre.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£860k£868k
  • 2024£703k£1.0m
  • 2023£840k£754k
Earlier years
  • 2022£679k£930k
  • 2021£894k£597k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF DEAF, HARD -OF-HEARING AND DEAF-BLIND PEOPLE RESIDENT IN MANCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, EDUCATION AND FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PEOPLE ('THE OBJECTS').

Grants received

34 grants · £1,401,948 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

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

4.6y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

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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 5General Charitable Purposes 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£860k 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

24 from 20 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1110373
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 17 OCT 2023
Contact on the register
01612733415 · info@manchesterdeafcentre.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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