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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 30 November 2024
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We are a Community Interest Company that aims to provide guidance to hearing children that have deaf parent(s), by means of activities, events, retreats, camps and conferences. We also provide information and guidance to deaf parents and other organisations working with CODAs. We create local, regional, and national networks for CODAs who can provide support and guidance for CODAs of all ages. Bring CODAs together with their families and the wider community to celebrate their unique heritage and culture. We are a completely volunteer run organisation with no paid staff, all of our volunteers are members of the community themselves. 2023-2024: We have continued to develop and grow as an organisation in relation to our membership, our volunteer team, increased engagement with our community, and beyond including other external organisations, individuals and the wider society. In January of this year, we received around £12,000 grant funding from the Big Lottery Community Fund, for our Co-Co CODA Project. This enabled us to cover our running costs and deliver a series of events; online socials, activity days and workshops for CODA children aged 7 – 17. These were a big success with a good number of children attending all and very positive feedback from both the children and their families. One of the events of particular interest was our Graffiti experience day where children got to learn about the history of graffiti and have a go themselves at spraying their own designs and doing canvases. We continued with a mixture of both online and face to face events as this enables us to reach and engage with a wider audience. The grant allowed us to make some purchases of new equipment and resources for our events which we can continue to use going forwards. In the summer we held our 11th annual CODA camp, with 130 children aged 7-17 and 45 adult CODA volunteers in Doncaster. The camp was over 5 days and we did a combination of physical activities delivered by PGL and our own CODA led activities: including rock climbing, archery, a variety of sports and CODA related workshops. We continued to build on our previous camps and had more activities led by our staff. The children particularly enjoyed the CODAfest, CODAthalon and CODA talk, which gave them an opportunity to explore their unique and shared lived experiences as CODAs. The camp was a massive success and we got very good feedback from both the children and their parents about the camp. All of the children who attended our events felt empowered through being able to connect with other who have shared lived experiences. They felt the events helped normalise their experience's and helped them to be able to cope and process some of the impacts of the previous year and be able to move forwards and look positively to the future. In October we collaborated with University College Cork and a series of deaf organisations to host the first ever Irish CODA Conference. This was well attended with around 75 adults in person and an extra 50 online from all over the world. There were a variety of presentations from academics about their research on CODAs, personal life stories, and performances. We hope to build on the success of the conference and host another one in England in the next couple of years. We have also capitalised on the interest surrounding the conference by establishing a series of adult CODA online groups and regular workshops. These have been very popular, particularly the series aimed at CODA interpreters. We have continued to play an active part in the BSL alliance, being a member of the early years data collection group. Looking into providing evidence of the challenges surrounding communication support and access to interpreters that deaf parents face when supporting their children in a variety of settings. We have also been working with National Deaf CHAMS to create more literature aimed at professionals and families about CODA mental health and how best to support them. We have continued to strengthen our relationships with external partner organisations and have been working with a variety of deaf organisations to promote and support deaf families more widely. This has boosted our outreach to more CODAs both adults and children across the wider community and we have seen a significant increase in attendance at all of our events. We have maintained our financial position through grant funding and donations from a variety of sources as well as selling merchandise. The organisation is aiming to continue to grow and develop over the next few years with increased events, workshops and socials.
The company’s stakeholders are the Hearing children of d/Deaf adults who attend monthly activities and workshops. Also, the parents and any other external body or member of the public seeking information or support. The stakeholders in this case, the Hearing children are consulted frequently during small group workshops on a monthly basis where issues requiring support concerning their Dear culture are discussed and are permitted to choose what activities are undertaken. Feedback on temporary volunteer, permanent staff and services are encouraged to improve service and support, feedback is often discussed at board level and changes if needed implemented. We have now established two steering groups that meet once every two months one is led by the children and young people, who we support to facilitate brainstorming activities, initiate discussion and generate ideas. We feedback feasibility and costs, so the children and young people can make informed decisions about the activities. Some activities are self-led by the children with guidance and support. The second steering group is made up of deaf parents, they contribute to ideas and activities that they want and make suggestions about topics for workshops, and family events. They are involved in helping organise and deliver our family focused events. Both groups contribute with ideas and provide feedback towards the planning of activities and events that we then organise. We also host regular open information and planning days for the wider group of volunteers allowing them to contribute to plans and feedback on past events. After each event we collect feedback from the children, their parents and our volunteers.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
22 July 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Matthew Daniel Shrine
Status: Director