Centre of Sign-sight-sound (Y Ganolfan Arwyddo-golwg-sain)

Centre of Sign-Sight-Sound (COS)With a purpose of "Improving Quality of Life through Equality" COS supports Deaf people and people living with sensory loss and the professionals and organisations who work with them. Promoting a world where sensory loss does not limit, preclude or stigmatise people from achieving their full unique potential.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Within North Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £678,052 and spent £694,245.

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 3%, from £658,511 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £678,052 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Live Well with Hearing Loss Project gave £212,819 in the year to 31 March 2026, 31% 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 2026: Not reported. Government contracts: £478,250 from 6 contracts.

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 2026, the charity named 9 funders who gave £544,283 between them. £122,742 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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 20 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £1,143,518.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Ashley JamesAppointed 13 March 2024
• Christine JonesAppointed 13 May 2022
• Elizabeth SteeleAppointed 14 June 2022
• Stephen DooreAppointed 15 July 2026
• Victoria ParkerAppointed 5 April 2024

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, 5 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

1048017

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 July 1995

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17 AUG 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUL 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 OCT 1999AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 NOV 2016 as amended on 03 Dec 2019

Company number

02959589This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cos.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Conwy

• 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 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 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

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