YOUR VOICE COUNTS
Registered charity 1125719 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Your Voice Counts supports people with learning disabilities, individuals experiencing mental health challenges, autistic people and people who are at risk of exclusion due to disability, illness or other challenges. We deliver a range of advocacy and community based services that empower people to have a voice, to have choice and control in their lives and to be connected to the support they need
Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an in-year surplus of £34,330, resulting in total reserves of £609,565. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £278,081, which is above the stated minimum policy target of three months' operating expenses (£254,039). The trustees confirmed that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: none
“The charity receives most of its funding from statutory sources and grants from foundations and charitable trusts.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to six months of necessary operating expenses (held: £278k)
“We hold between three and six months necessary operating expenses as a minimum reserve. Based on the accounts for the year to 31 March 2025, three months would equate to £254,039 and six months to £508,078. Our free reserves (unrestricted funds not invested in tangible fixed assets) stand at £278,081 (2024: £277,747).” — page 24
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- David Woolley — Chief Executive (source)
- Rachel Thompson — Co-Chair (source)
- Rebekah Coombes — Director (source)
- Jess Fielding — Director (source)
- Matt Ife — Director (source)
- Kirsty McNally — Director (source)
- Carl Newbrook — Director (source)
- Tom Relph — Director (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Carl Newbrook
- Gary Devlin · trustee of 1 other charity
- Jessica Fielding · trustee of 1 other charity
- Mathew Ife
- Nathan Maddison
- Rachel Thompson
- Rebekah Coombes
- TOM RELPH
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · Redcar And Cleveland · South Tyneside
Income and spending
Common questions
Is YOUR VOICE COUNTS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an in-year surplus of £34,330, resulting in total reserves of £609,565. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £278,081, which is above the stated minimum policy target of three months' operating expenses (£254,039). The trustees confirmed that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.
Who funds YOUR VOICE COUNTS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name YOUR VOICE COUNTS as a grant recipient include MOTABILITY, Point North Community Foundation, CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON, THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION, HEART RESEARCH UK.
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