SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION 1997-10-16 → present
2. NATIONAL DEAF-BLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION(THE) 1984-06-15 → 1997-10-16

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Haysmacintyre LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Trustees believe that the organisation will continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of this report and that therefore it is appropriate to continue to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION · parent
   1. Sense International · supporting people who are deafblind and have sensory impairments on a global basis
   2. Helping Sense Limited 100% · England and Wales · sale of goods through Sense's charity shops
   3. Sense4Enterprise Limited · social enterprise activities
   4. The Royal School for Deaf Children (Birmingham) · support for deaf children

Significant events

• “James Watson-O'Neill as our new Chief Executive who joined us in February 2025. Richard Kramer OBE, who stood down as our Chief Executive in January this year. Mark Cammies new Chair, succeeded Dr Juston Malloy in December 2024.”
• “completion of a new hub in Belfast.”
• “Launched a new campaigning and influencing strategy during 2024/25.”
• “Successfully launched our volunteer strategy in 2024/25.”
• “The charity undertook a restructuring process to align with its operational and strategic priorities. As a result, redundancy costs of £224,000 were incurred in respect of 50 redundancies across the organisation.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +7.3%

  £94,976,000 → £101,863,000

• Cash

  +7.6%

  £6,144,000 → £6,610,000

• Net assets

  -4.8%

  £48,563,000 → £46,253,000

• Employees

  +3.7%

  2,851 → 2,956

• Operating profit

  +12.1%

  -£2,968,000 → -£2,609,000

• Wages

  +7%

  £59,915,000 → £64,114,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers