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Hearing loss HE207

Hearing loss is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Health categoryand the Health condition subcategory.

580 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 0.29% of all charities.

Keywords to find charities

UK-CAT categories are applied to charities based on a set of keywords, in the form of a regular expression.

The regular expression used to find charities in this tag is:

\b(deaf(ness)?|sensory (disabilit(y|ies)|impairments?)|sign language|BSL|deafblind|(hearing) (care|clinics?|health|problems?)+|(hearing) impair(ed|ment))\b

Charities matching this regular expression will be excluded from the tag:

\b(lions club)\b

Distribution by size of charity

Income band Charities with tag Percent of all charities
Under £10k 207 0.27%
£10k - £100k 150 0.22%
£100k - £250k 59 0.28%
£250k - £500k 35 0.36%
£500k - £1m 40 0.65%
£1m - £10m 41 0.48%
Over £10m 17 0.83%
Total 549 0.29%

Distribution by charity regulator

Regulator Charities with tag Percent of all charities
ccew 456 0.27%
oscr 95 0.38%
ccni 29 0.40%
Total 580 0.29%

Ten largest charities (by income)

Name Latest income
SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION [Charity number: 289868]
Sense exists so that no one who is deafblind or has other complex disabilities is isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Across the country, we support children and adults to communicate and experience the world. We provide information and advice, offer a wide range of flexible services and campaign for the rights of people with complex disabilities to take part in life.
£86,526,714
JEWISH CARE [Charity number: 802559]
Jewish Care cares for people in the Jewish community. We give care & support to older people,Holocaust survivors,people with physical & sensory disabilities & with mental health needs. We offer support groups,run leadership & activity programmes for young people. Our staff & volunteers support thousands of people a week. Everything is guided by our Jewish values, warmth,kindness,honesty & respect.
£60,699,000
THE NATIONAL DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY [Charity number: 1016532]
NDCS is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people We represent the interests and campaign for the rights of all deaf children and young people from birth until they reach independence. NDCS supports the deaf child through the family as well as directly supporting deaf children and young people themselves.
£30,921,000
The National Deaf Children's Society [Charity number: SC040779]
The Charity's objects are to further the education of and to relieve the needs of deaf children and young people.
£30,921,000
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland [Charity number: NI104483]
Comment on matters of public importance from a Biblical perspective, issue statements on church policy relevant to the public domain. Maintain relationships with local, regional and national government, make representations and respond to consultations on relevant issues. Develop relationships with other Church bodies, charities, secular organisations and civic society. Monitor inter-church bodies of which the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is a member. Provide nominations to education and other state bodies where the Church is a stakeholder. Select, train and develop full and part-time ministers, offer pastoral care to them and their families. Select, train and support deaconesses and oversee their deployment. Maintain and manage Union Theological College, a third-level institution and a recognised College of Queen’s University, Belfast. Provide a conciliation service for church members. Resource presbyteries and congregations in worship; discipleship, nurture & teaching, pastoral care, world mission; and evangelism, outreach and good relations in the community and workplace. Enable the development of ministry among: youth and children; women; young adults; families. Provide marriage and counselling services. Provide support for local congregations in finance, health & safety and personnel issues. Develop strategic priorities in all-age mission in Ireland. Enable new church development and church planting. Support chaplaincy services in the Forces, Healthcare, Prisons, Universities and Colleges. Undertake overseas mission, develop partnerships with overseas Churches, send personnel overseas. Promote world development issues and facilitate thinking on issues of global concern. Deliver a social witness service to the wider community in partnership with appropriate organisations. Undertake policy development and administration of the Taking Care programme for the protection of children and vulnerable adults. Support a ministry to those with hearing impairment.
£28,299,624
SEASHELL TRUST [Charity number: 1092655]
The charity provides high quality specialist care and education, including physical training, to children and young adults with one or more form of complex communication and learning difficulties which means that they require special provision. Royal Schools for the Deaf, Manchester (charity no 526091) gifted certain assets and its operating activities to Seashell Trust on 1 September 2008.
£27,416,000
Royal British Legion Industries Ltd [Charity number: SC048795]
The objects for which the Charity is established are: (a) The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability or incapacity. (b) The relief of the charitable needs of Members and former members of HM Forces, their relatives and dependants. (c) The advancement of education and training. (d) The relief of unemployment for the benefit of the public in such ways as may be thought fit including assistance to find employment. (e) To promote equality of opportunities for people with disabilities in particular in relation to their access to employment. (f) For the purposes of these objects, the word 'disability' includes any physical, mental or sensory disability or disadvantage or restriction of activity however caused and whether permanent or temporary, irrespective of the person's race, nationality, religious belief, sex, sexual orientation or age.
£25,944,000
Sense Scotland [Charity number: SC022097]
Objects of the Company 1. The objects for which the Company is established are to provide support and relief to children, young people and adults who have communication support needs arising from a range of disabilities, including, but not limited to, deafblindness. autism. cerebral palsy. sensory impairment. learning or physical disability, often against a backdrop of complex health needs, and to provide help and support for their families and carers (the “Objects”).
£24,917,392
MARY HARE [Charity number: 1048386]
Mary Hare provides education services to deaf children through the operation of its school containing a Secondary and Primary section. Mary Hare also provides training for teachers, other professionals and practitioners in deaf education. Mary Hare operates the Burwood Centre which provides independent assessment services for deaf children.
£16,054,000
The Cedar Foundation [Charity number: NI101121]
We work with service users to offer person centred assistance and support with careers advice, educational opportunities and work experience. We work with employers to seek job opportunities and provide on-going advice and assistance to support the needs of both the service user and their employer so that they can work independently. The Outlook Service allows children and young people to engage in social and recreational activities of their choice outside of their family environment. The Transitions Service is an early intervention service to enable young people to make appropriate choices when moving on from school to Further or Higher Education, training or employment. The Youth Matters Service provides social activities and personal development programmes for young people with disabilities up to 18 years old. Right 4 U offers children and young people who have ASD a made to measure service that makes it possible for them to get out of the house and into their community. We provide a range of Living Options designed to meet the needs of people who have brain injury, physical disability and sensory impairment and for people with learning disabilities. Our Supported Living Service provides independent apartments or bungalows to people with different levels of housing support and care needs. Our Housing Support Service provides support to adults in their own homes and our Floating Support team assists adults living in their own home to carry out their housing responsibilities independently by tailoring a programme to suit their individual needs. We provide 24-hour care in our Residential Services. We provide a range of Social and Community Network programmes to promote peer support and participation in the community
£15,667,024

Ten random charities

Name Latest income
Fife Deaf Club [Charity number: SC028433]
The objectives of the club shall be: 2.1 The advancement of health through promotion of the welfare of those who are Deaf, Deaf/blind, or whose hearing is impaired in the interests of social welfare. 2.2 The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or another disadvantage. 2.3 Facilitating the provision of or access to related facilities for social, sporting, recreational and community activity of all descriptions for Deaf, Deaf/blind, or hearing-impaired people.
£17,830
Scottish Ethnic Minority Deaf Charity SCIO [Charity number: SC047714]
4 The organisation's purposes are: • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by: signposting and support in advocacy and linking in partnership with health professionals, and. providing information support & advice to ethnic minority deaf people by signposting & advocating on their behalf on monetary and benefit entitlement. • The promotion of equality and diversity to advance social justice for the ethnic minority deaf community through awareness raising programmes and community development practices. • The advancement of citizenship and community development through promoting social inclusion, assisting in removing communication and cultural barriers and building links between local deaf communities and policy makers. And by, empowering ethnic minority deaf community in their participation in civil life and tackling exclusion through community initiatives, training, promoting wider public recognition of their needs and cultural identity as deaf community. • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the person for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.
£174,071
ROYAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF DERBY [Charity number: 1062507]
The charity operates a non-maintained special school concerned with the education of deaf pupils of 3 to 19 years of age
£5,039,275
THE RICHARD MAGILL FUND [Charity number: 1175064]
The Charity provides direct support to Deaf people and their family and friends in end-of-life circumstances. The charity also raises awareness through training of healthcare professionals and trains and supports Deaf volunteers to become visitors in end-of-life situations.
£1,955
SNAP Special Needs Action Project [Charity number: SC024792]
The company's objects are: to provide opportunities, for leisure and socialisation, for people who have a learning disability and/or associated physical or sensory disability, with the object of improving the conditions of life for such people and their families and of helping such people to relate to each other and society in general.
£366,927
Kids in Control [Charity number: NI100337]
To meet our purpose KIC designs all programs with the following core values: • Respect for all people. • Integration at the core. • Committed to learner led flexible programming. • Focused on long-term benefits and impact for individuals. KIC is available to people who want to use creative learning drama projects to change the community for the better. We provide in some of Northern Ireland's most isolated and marginalised communities that fall under NI's policy for TSN and people classified under Section 75. To access our work to our target beneficiaries KIC implements programs in a variety of settings including community and voluntary groups, youth groups and schools. Our participants have very diverse needs and require sensitive and high levels of support, therefore, we work closely with their guardians; carers, social workers, parents, foster parents, youth leaders, support workers and community police. Programmes include: COMMUNITY OUTREACH: targeting TSN areas and Section 75 youth. KIC outreach work delivers programming at the heart of communities. SCHOOLS INCLUSION PROGRAMME: linking mainstream and special schools, developing volunteers and peer leaders, empathy and understanding. IN-HOUSE CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMMES: participation comes from our community outreach programmes in special and mainstream schools as well as TSN community projects and open recruitment. SPECIAL PROGRAMMES: KIC delivers the all ability creative learning programme for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. KIC takes part in the Arts and Disability Forum’s Bounce Festival, NI’s first disability and deaf arts international festival. KIC provides training modules for the University of Ulsters’Youth Work Course - personal development creative learning programmes directed at building capacity of youth workers in marginalized communities.
£143,204
Northern Ireland Deaf Interpreters and Translators Association [Charity number: NI109203]
None
THE CIARAN BUCKLEY TRUST [Charity number: 1117246]
The Trust raises funds in memory of Ciaran, who suffered from a genetic skin disorder called Keratitis-Ichthyosis-Deafness Syndrome (KID syndrome). The Trust aims to help people with similar conditions, as well as supporting research and promoting awareness about the difficulties of living with the multiple disabilities of blindness, deafness and skin disorders.
£482
THE MUSLIM YOUTH FOUNDATION [Charity number: 327233]
Place of worship. Organises religious programmes. Collections for relief agencies. Educational visits for schools. Various social, cultural programmes. Activities for deaf group.
£120,377
DURHAM DEAFENED SUPPORT [Charity number: 1080663]
1:1 Support.Advocacy.4 Drop ins weekly.11 Community Support/Lip Reading groups.Training.Equipment loan service available via drop-in's/home visitsTinnitus Support.Dealing with Deafness - Non residential 1 week course.Crafts, Yoga, IT, Chi Ball
£207,881