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Registered charity · Cheshire

Cheshire Deaf Society

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
Where
Cheshire East, Flintshire, Halton, Warrington and more
Website
www.dsnonline.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cheshire Deaf Society
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£2.8m£2.7m
  • 2025£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2023£2.4m£2.7m
  • 2022£2.2m£2.2m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government contracts 57%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF DEAF PERSONS IN CHESHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Grants received

19 grants · £623,645 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 · £290,226 (3 grants)
  • BBC Children in Need · £235,245 (5 grants)
  • Cheshire Community Foundation · £35,292 (7 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £35,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £10,249

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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.

7 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 8Tech and media 2Business services 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£2.7m 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.

13.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.6 in 2021

86 from 58 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.
60%
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
506791
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/07/1977AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12/10/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/05/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/02/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/11/2015
Companies House
Company number 01323762 · Active
Contact on the register
03332205050 · dsn@dsnonline.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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