Wales Council for Deaf People

Wales Council for Deaf People offers a range of services tailored to support individuals who are deaf, deafened, deafblind, or hard of hearing. These includes interpreting, community support, sign language training, and deaf/deafblind awareness programs. Our services are available throughout Wales.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £436,728 and spent £664,904.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 44%, from £303,584 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £436,728 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 152% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council gave £24,761 in the year to 31 March 2025, 6% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £24,761 from 4 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 4 funders who gave £28,634 between them. £25,744 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 8 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £117,000.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 22 May 2025, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in a decision of Annual Meeting of the Council

  Council's Representatives on Other Bodies

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• 23 May 2024, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in a decision of Annual Meeting of the Council

  Council's Representatives on Other Bodies

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• 25 May 2023, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in a decision of Annual Meeting of the Council

  Council's Representatives on Other Bodies

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• 10 June 2022, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in a decision of Annual Meeting of the Council

  Council's Representatives on Other Bodies

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 22 October 2025

  Named by Joyce Watson in the Senedd

  …the process of compiling that particular cost. Accurate costs would be subject to formal quotes, discussions with interpreters and the Wales Council for Deaf People and contractual discussions with our broadcast contractor. But on your wider question about the scarcity of interpreters, you're absolu…

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• 22 September 2025

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  …dence session, and the second today, we have Tom Lichy and Martin Griffiths from the British Deaf Association, and Cath Booth from the Wales Council for Deaf People and Charles Hampton, also from the Wales Council for Deaf People. So, I welcome you all, and I'm going to start the questions. You don'…

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• 22 September 2025

  Named by Martin Griffiths in the Senedd

  …people. For example, the British Deaf Association has two community engagement officers who regularly visit deaf clubs, and I know the Wales Council for Deaf People also regularly visit deaf clubs—so two organisations who work quite closely together. But we've also got that continuous contact with d…

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• 22 September 2025

  Named by Biao Zeng in the Senedd

  About the local area plans, I have some experience that might be shared with you. I once worked with the Wales Council for Deaf People for two years, and I got lots of information from them. I'm just thinking, if we talk about the local plans, what these structures look like. They rely on each count…

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Rowland Rees-EvansChairAppointed 28 November 2017
• Dafydd Ruez EveleighAppointed 19 March 2024
• David Harvey Skivington
• Geoffrey Ian MosesAppointed 5 July 2019
• Hayley DunneAppointed 12 October 2023
• Jacqui BondAppointed 31 August 2025
• Norma Moses

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1035893

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

31 March 1994

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 19 DEC 2019

Website

wcdeaf.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda