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Registered charity · Princes Risborough

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £16m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.hearingdogs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£15m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£11m
  • 2021£12m£9.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ASSOCIATION'S OBJECTS ARE THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR BY TRAINING, PROVIDING AND SUPPORTING ANIMAL ASSISTED INTERVENTION IN THE RELIEF OF HUMAN DEAFNESS, DISABILITY, SICKNESS, SUFFERING OR DISTRESS, (SUFFERERS FROM SUCH CONDITIONS HEREIN AFTER CALLED "DEAF OR DISABLED PEOPLE") COLLABORATING WITH OTHER CHARITIES WHERE APPROPRIATE AND IN PURSUANCE OF THE FOREGOING CHARITABLE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE.

Grants received

12 grants · £556,183 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.

2.2y median 1.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Animals 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.

Health and social care 10Business services 3Professional services 3

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£16.4m 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.

22.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.6 in 2021

226 from 176 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
293358
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/11/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/08/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/11/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19/07/2011NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17/07/2013NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02 AUG 2017 as amended on 18 Feb 2020 as amended on 01 May 2025
Companies House
Company number 01964878 · Active
Contact on the register
01844348100 · info@hearingdogs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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