SPEAKUP SELF ADVOCACY LIMITED

Registered charity 1109054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEAKUP

Advance the education of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health in self-advocacy and related areasTo help people to speak up for themselvesTo make information available in a form which everyone can understandTo create employment opportunities for members and others

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, AUTISM AND MENTAL HEALTH IN SELF-ADVOCACY AND RELATED AREAS, AND 2. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, AUTISM AND MENTAL HEALTH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, RAWMARSH & PARKGATE, ROTHERHAM, SOUTH YORKSHUIRE.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £155,977 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £498,537 to £342,560. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted funds held at approximately four months of unrestricted expenditure, which aligns with their stated reserves policy of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hart Shaw LLP. Discloses 5 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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 04655406

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

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.

• LAWTHOM, Rebecca, Dr — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• GILL, David Peter — director, appointed 12/01/2012on trustee list
• CHESTER, David Ian — director, appointed 22/01/2008on trustee list
• FARNSWORTH, Roy — director, appointed 04/02/2003on trustee list
• SULMAN, Gillian Aviva — director, appointed 04/02/2003on trustee list
• ALLOTT, Michael Lee — secretary, appointed 21/10/2015

Official officers record.

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 (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROY FARNSWORTHchair
• DAVID IAN CHESTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID PETER GILL
• Dr Rebecca Lawthom
• GILLIAN AVIVA SULMAN

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEWISHAM SPEAKING UP.

• LEWISHAM SPEAKING UP income £180k
• SPEAKEASY ADVOCACY income £115k
• SPEAKEASY NOW income £202k
• SPEAKING OUT FORUM income £47k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• BRIGHTON & HOVE SPEAK OUT income £331k

Side by side with its peers

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