The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Royal Deaf Education Trust

Registered charity 1124523 Registered since 2008

Operates: Devon

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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.

5.6y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

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 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

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 10Other services 9Professional services 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£9.0m latest income
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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.4 in 2021

190 from 119 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.
97%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.thedeafacademy.ac.uk
Emailinfo@thedeafacademy.ac.uk
Phone01395 203130
AddressThe Deaf Academy, 1 Douglas Avenue, EXMOUTH, EX8 2AU

Finances

£9,019,345 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,459,542£5,244,453
2022£5,825,766£5,456,478
2023£6,503,339£6,257,133
2024£7,883,181£7,673,741
2025£9,019,345£9,133,100

What it does

What

Education/trainingDisability

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE:-3.1. TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, TRAINING, CARE, ACCOMMODATION, LEISUREOPPORTUNITIES, WELFARE AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES TO DEAF PEOPLEAND PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT DEAF BUT WHO, DUE TO SOME OTHER DISABILITY,WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE SAME (PRINCIPALLY THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELYFROM THE COUNTIES OF DEVON, CORNWALL, SOMERSET AND DORSET) WITHTHE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR PERSONAL, MENTAL, PHYSICAL ANDSPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY MAY REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL ASINDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY AS AWHOLE AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED; AND3.2. TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE NEEDS AND CAPABILITIES OF DEAFPEOPLE WITH A VIEW TO ACHIEVING GREATER INTEGRATION BETWEEN DEAFAND HEARING COMMUNITIES.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/05/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 OCT 2017 as amended on 11 May 2018 as amended on 28 Aug 2018 as amended on 31 Jan 2020 as amended on 31 Mar 2022 as amended on 08 Feb 2026

Trustees (9)

9trustees
69median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Royal Deaf Education Trust · 06585703 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 06/05/2008

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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