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)

STAMMA 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

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF ALL WHOSE LIVES ARE AFFECTED BY STAMMERING (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO STAMMERING

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £223,155 for the year ended December 2025, driven by lower-than-anticipated donations and legacy income compared to the previous year. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £202,175, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining six months' operating costs. The charity implemented staff reductions and cost-saving measures to address these financial pressures and safeguard long-term sustainability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04297778

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)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• NIXON, Thomas Neil — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• ORYEMA, Olga Janice — director, appointed 22/11/2025on trustee list
• THEBE, Christian Peter — director, appointed 22/11/2025on trustee list
• PEARCE, Nicholas John — director, appointed 22/11/2025on trustee list
• WILLS, Oliver Caradog — director, appointed 17/08/2024on trustee list
• WELDON, Lucy Georgina Francesca — director, appointed 17/08/2024on trustee list
• PIM, Roger Jonathan — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• BIRCH, Catherine Olivia — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• BEASLEY, Penny Caroline — director, appointed 27/01/2024on trustee list
• POWELL, Jane — secretary, appointed 04/06/2018

Official officers record.

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 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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
• STEMA income £140k
• 50 MILLION VOICES income £29k
• STEM4 income £307k
• THE NESTA TRUST income £17.3m
• STAA income £313k

Side by side with its peers

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