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Its 2017/2018 annual accounts showed the charity had an income of £40.1m but spent £42.7m. This was the fifth time in six years that the charity's expenditure had exceeded its income. RNID's auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers said that "material uncertainty" over fundraising income and other conditions
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RNID announced in 2020 that it was selling its 23 care homes and its supported living, community and domiciliary care services which it had been providing since 1929. The charity's 560 clients were told their homes and services were to be sold and the 600 staff would be transferred to a new owner.
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A financial recovery plan was delivered in the 2019/20 financial year. As a result, RNID's auditors expressed no further concerns about the charity's going concern status in the accounts signed in
November 2019. Like all charities, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in new financial pressures for
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June 2011 saw celebrations of 100 years of the RNID and a new trading name. "Action on
Hearing Loss" was chosen to describe the breadth of help and support that RNID provided for people with all types of hearing loss — from people who were profoundly deaf, to people who were losing their hearing.
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The Bureau was reorganised as the
National Institute for the Deaf in 1924. Alongside its role in influencing public policy in favour of people who are hard of hearing in the UK, it also developed a role as a provider of care to deaf and hard of hearing people with additional needs during the late
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to create a jersey which would transform stadium noise into real-time touch sensations. Sela co-created a "haptic" jersey with the charity for deaf supporters to wear and donated its front-of-shirt sponsorship to the charity for a match against
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