NATIONAL VOICES

Registered charity 1057711 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONG-TERM CONDITIONS ALLIANCE, THE LONG TERM-MEDICAL CONDITIONS ALLIANCE, THE LONG-TERM MEDICAL CONDITIONS ALLIANCE

National Voices is the coalition of charities that stands for people being in control of their health and care. We want person-centred care: people having as much control and influence as possible over decisions that affect their own health and care, as patients, carers and members of communities. We want people to be partners in the design of services and in research, innovation and improvement.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH ORDISABILITY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION TO RELIEVE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY LONG-TERMHEALTH CONDITIONS AND DISABILITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT I IMITATION, BYFOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS, VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS AND/OR PUBLIC BODIES CONNECTED WITH HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN ACOMMON EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SERVICE USERS AND TOPROMOTE SERVICES WHICH TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE NEEDS OF SERVICE USERS ANDCARERS; AND3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF HEALTH AND SOCIALCARE, INCLUDING THE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND TREATMENTS OF ALL LONG-TERM HEALTHCONDITIONS AND DISABILITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that National Voices reported total funds of £226,316,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, comprising £175,660,000 in unrestricted funds and £50,656,000 in restricted funds. The balance sheet indicates a net current asset position, with total assets less current liabilities amounting to £484,226,000 against creditors of £277,719,000. The financial statements were prepared in accordance with the small companies regime and approved by the Board of Trustees on 27 November 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance — “The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, which is jointly managed and funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the…” (source page)
• NHS England — “NHS England For our engagement and strategic advice on the Federated Data Platform and for chairing the independent Check and Challenge grou…” (source page)
• Care Quality Commission — “Care Quality Commission For our work on helping Integrated Care Systems assess their own performance in understanding and responding to the …” (source page)
• Department of Health and Social Care — “Department of Health and Social Care For our research project gathering insights from people on their experiences of accessing and using med…” (source page)
• Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance — “Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance For our work supporting people and communities to shape the Greater Manchester Early Diagnosis Strategy.” (source page)
• National Institute for Health and Care Research — “National Institute for Health and Care Research For our work supporting the Birmingham, RAND and Cambridge Evaluation (BRACE) Centre to cond…” (source page)
• Abbvie — “Abbvie For our independent report – with Future Health – on improving the experience of patients with long-term conditions.” (source page)
• Roche — “Roche For our work supporting VCSE and lived experience contributions to a research project on addressing racial inequalities in Alzheimer’s…” (source page)
• Pfizer — “Pfizer For a grant towards National Voices’ independent Health Inequalities Unconference.” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Buckinghamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Woodford
• Dr Meera Shah
• Eamonn Dunne
• Esther Freeman
• Ezra Ben-Yisrael
• Harry Evans
• Helen Ball · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Cunnett
• Kalu Obuka
• Samantha Holmes
• Sherone Phillips

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORAM VOICE (FORMERLY VOICE FOR THE CHILD IN CARE).

• CORAM VOICE (FORMERLY VOICE FOR THE CHILD IN CARE) income £2.7m
• YOUR VOICE COUNTS income £1.8m
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• Local Voice in the Community income £253k
• CARERS VOICE NORFOLK AND WAVENEY income £153k
• VOICES income £328k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.