Registered charity (CIO) · Derby
Communication Unlimited
- 10 trustees
- Income £512k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Rachell BastikarChair · since 2020
- Agnieszka LatifTrustee · since 2024
- David Robert LeaderTrustee · since 2020
- Hamza ShaikhTrustee · since 2023
- John Brian LentonTrustee · since 2020
- Karen AdamsTrustee · since 2020
- Mhairi SimpsonTrustee · since 2020
- Robert FoulkesTrustee · since 2023
- Rowena JohnsonTrustee · since 2024
- Siobhan ShawTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Disability
- Where
- Derbyshire
- Website
- www.cu-bsl.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£512k£519k
- 2024£477k£492k
- 2023£479k£486k
Earlier years
- 2022£496k£470k
- 2021£586k£382k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH WILL BENEFIT PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY WITHIN THE COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE (HERE AFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WHO HAVE HEARING AND/OR SIGHT DIFFICULTIES (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS DEAF AND DEAFBLIND PEOPLE) BY ENCOURAGING THE PROVISION OF OR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICES, WHICH FACILITATE INDEPENDENCE, ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN AND FULL INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Rachell Bastikar Chair since 2020
- Agnieszka Latif since 2024
- David Robert Leader since 2020
- Hamza Shaikh since 2023
- John Brian Lenton since 2020
- Karen Adams since 2020
- Mhairi Simpson since 2020
- Robert Foulkes since 2023
- Rowena Johnson since 2024
- Siobhan Shaw since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Rachell Bastikar Chair since 2020
- David Robert Leader since 2020
- John Brian Lenton since 2020
- Karen Adams since 2020
- Mhairi Simpson since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Agnieszka Latif since 2024
- David Robert Leader since 2020
- John Brian Lenton since 2020
- Karen Adams since 2020
- Mhairi Simpson since 2020
- Robert Foulkes since 2023
- Rowena Johnson since 2024
- Siobhan Shaw since 2020
Portfolio (2)
- Rachell Bastikar Chair since 2020
- Hamza Shaikh since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1188251
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 28 Feb 2020
- Contact on the register
- 01332369920 · bookings@cu-bsl.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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