STAMMA

Registered charity 1089967 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSA, THE BRITISH STAMMERING ASSOCIATION, The British Stammering Association · also registered in Scotland as SC038866 (OSCR)

BSA is a charity run by people for people who stammer. We provide unbiased information on all aspects of stammering and run projects and campaigns to improve access to therapy, education and employment

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net expenditure deficit of £193,839, which was an improvement on the planned deficit of £290k. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £107k, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining at least six months' operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Royce Peeling Green Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stamma (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery — “A 3-year grant from the Community Fund towards our Space to Stammer campaign, to break down the barriers faced by people who stammer in Engl…” (source page)
• The Underwood Trust — “The Trust has been a long-term STAMMA supporter and have been supporting our outreach work as part of the 'Space to Stammer' campaign.” (source page)
• The Annie Tranmer Charitable Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Broyst Foundation — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• Chapman Charitable Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Frederick & Phyllis Cann Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Grocers' Charity — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The HDH Wills 1965 Charity Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• James T Howat Charitable Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• Lillie Johnson Charitable Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The Maud Elkington Charitable Trust — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• Medicash Foundation — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)
• The N Smith Charitable Settlement — “The donors kindly supporting STAMMA's work. Funding from major donors is vital to our work. It helps support our services, campaigns and eve…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~22.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Olivia Birch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christian Peter Thebe
• Lucy Georgina Francesca Weldon
• Nicholas Pearce
• Olga Oryema
• Oliver Caradog Wills
• Penny Beasley
• Roger Pim
• Thomas Nixon

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 ACTION FOR STAMMERING CHILDREN.

• ACTION FOR STAMMERING CHILDREN income £310k
• THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS income £1.7m
• THE BLACK SWIMMING ASSOCIATION (THE BSA) income £544k
• BRITISH SMALL ANIMAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION income £6.2m
• BOLTON ADULT AUTISM SUPPORT income £116k
• STAMSHAW AND TIPNER LEISURE CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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