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. 2024-2025: This year has been a steady year in relation to the organisation’s activities; we have focused on sustaining our existing projects and making plans for the next few years ahead about how we want to grow the organisation further going forwards. In the background the board of directors have been working on designing a new and more accessible website, alongside plans for a new adult CODA camp, and new collaboration projects for next year with some deaf organisations. We have continued in our involvement with the BSL alliance, and have been involved in the next stage of the project; providing evidence and information to the BSL Working Group, who work with MPs to provide evidence to parliament. Building on our work from last year we have now finalised a booklet aimed at professionals working with CODA’s mental health, in conjunction with the National Deaf CHAMS service. We have been using this to send out to deaf organisations, school and other services such as social services. We have been given a lot of positive feedback on how useful the information is and will continue to publicise and distribute it over the coming years. We have also been working with a series of researchers who have been doing on-going research on CODAs, the community and our lived experiences. We have continued to engage in a wide range of community events and with other organisations across both the deaf and hearing worlds. We have been able to continue to utilise the funding that we received from the Big Lottery Community Fund, last year. This has covered all of our significant running costs and enabled us to deliver more community engagement events and our annual camp. We have continued to host a series of online events aimed at both CODA children and adults. We have established a new group focused on hosting events aimed at CODA interpreters across the UK & Ireland. This has been a big success with high number attending and positive feedback throughout. In the summer we held our 12th annual CODA camp. with 142 children aged 7-17 and 48 adult CODA volunteers at Barton Hall PGL in Deveon. 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. Building on the success of previous years we did extra sessions of CODA talk with the children, and more activities with the whole camp together, giving the children more of an opportunity to engage with different ages and groups. The camp was very successful with great feedback from the children and parents alike. 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. The camp committee and board have been making plans to ensure the long-term viability of the camp; as part of this we have been in talks with PGL and have moved forwards our plans, and bookings for future camps. This has several key advantages as it means we have more flexibility in terms of dates and locations, we are able to announce the following years camp at the end of the last one, we get a slight discount with PGL for advanced booking, which means we can maintain an affordable price for camp, and gives parents more time to pay in smaller instalments that are more manageable. 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. We are in a very good financial position with plenty of money in our reserves, left over money from the Big Lottery Funding and steady income from a variety of sources. We have been updating all of our policies procedures and financial controls for the year ahead, and maintaining clear budgets and planning. 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