THE AUDITORY VERBAL CENTRE

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Wenn Townsend

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the Trustees believe that no material uncertainties exist. The Trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. The budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the Charity to be able to continue as a going concern.”

Significant events

• “4 professionals (UK based) achieving their Listening and Spoken Language Specialist Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist (LSLS Cert AVT) qualification having successfully completed their Foundation and Advanced courses; invested in the 900 practicum hours, 20 mentored hours, 10 observational hours and 80 continued educational credits of theoretical knowledge across 9 domains and passed the international examination required to achieve their qualification.”
• “Westminster Hall Debate on increasing access to Auditory Verbal therapy in January 2025.”
• “met Minister Kinnock, alongside AVUK graduate, Sam Callaghan and his mum Jo, at the Department of Health and Social Care in March 2025 to discuss the key steps that need to be taken to enable more deaf children to access Auditory Verbal therapy.”
• “welcomed Minister Stephen Morgan from the Department for Education to our London centre in October 2024 to meet families who have benefited from Auditory Verbal therapy and take part in a therapy session.”
• “hosted an event in Parliament for MPs celebrating Loud Shirt Day which saw cross-party MPs, including many newly elected MPs, show their support for our Hear Us Now campaign, including Health Minister Wes Streeting and Shadow Health Minister Victoria Atkins.”
• “in July 2025 we met with the Chief Allied Health Professional to discuss training in the Auditory Verbal therapy approach and next steps to ensure there are sufficient numbers of professionals developing their skills in the approach, to enable equality of access.”
• “In July 2025, we published our Auditory Verbal therapy - research and evidence paper on our website: This paper replaced the previous position paper published in November 2023 and focuses specifically on recent contributions to the evidence base for the Auditory Verbal approach.”
• “In May 2025, we published research conducted by YouGov that detailed the knowledge gap of the UK public regarding the potential for deaf children to learn to speak as well as their hearing peers.”
• “the awards were held for the second year in 2024. They recognised the achievements of deaf children, young people and the adults that support them, who, like Claire, have gone above and beyond to support deaf children to achieve their potential.”
• “In November 2024, we held our annual Sounds of Success: Honouring Deaf Children's Achievements event at Man Group in London.”
• “In March 2025, we launched an exciting new partnership with Deafmetal, a brand that creates inclusive and stylish jewellery for hearing aid and cochlear implant users.”
• “In June 2025 we launched our first ever summer appeal. This marked an important step in developing AVUK's individual giving programme.”
• “In October 2024, we were fortunate to be supported by Ballymore, who own The Brentford Project housing development in west London.”

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

Filings

9

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.