THE TAVISTOCK TRUST FOR APHASIA

Registered charity 1131611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance health for the condition of Aphasia;supporting Centres in relation to its work; supporting projects;provide those suffering from Aphasia with support and advance education and raise public awareness of the condition of Aphasia by providing awards and prizes in the field of Aphasia;encourage, support and promote research into this condition or any related subject, for the public benefit.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE HEALTH IN RELATION TO THE CONDITION OF APHASIA, IN PARTICULAR BY;3.1.1 ADVANCING THE DIAGNOSIS, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUFFERERS FROM APHASIA, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THEIR TREATMENT IN ANY CENTRE OR ELSEWHERE, OR THEIR TREATMENT BY SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS;3.1.2 SUPPORTING ANY CENTRE IN RELATION TO ITS WORK WITH SUFFERERS FROM APHASIA;3.1.3 SUPPORTING PROJECTS WHICH ASSIST SUFFERERS FROM APHASIA IN DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE AND LANGUAGE SKILLS;3.1.4 PROVIDING AWARDS TO THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION IN THE FIELD OF APHASIA;3.2 PROVIDE THOSE SUFFERING FROM APHASIA WITH SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE IN LIVING WITH APHASIA;3.3 PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CARERS OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM APHASIA;3.4 ADVANCE EDUCATION IN, AND RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF, THE CONDITION OF APHASIA, FOR EXAMPLE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY PROVIDING AWARDS AND PRIZES FOR ACADEMIC ESSAYS AND WORK IN THE FIELD OF APHASIA WITH A VIEW TO ENCOURAGING THE STUDY, UNDERSTANDING AND AWARENESS OF APHASIA;3.5 ENCOURAGE, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THIS CONDITION OR ANY RELATED SUBJECT (AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH), FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £1,803,667 at the year end, a decrease from the previous year's £1,969,808. The Trustees maintain a policy to hold sufficient reserves for continuing activities but do not allocate a specific sum for short-term reserves as funds are unrestricted and liquid. No material uncertainties or going concern issues are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06988361

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia (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.

• MARSHALL, Jane Frances, Professor — director, appointed 14/10/2022on trustee list
• SHURROCK, Kevin Leslie — director, appointed 03/04/2017on trustee list
• ROSS, Lynne — director, appointed 10/05/2012on trustee list
• RUSSELL FIFTEENTH DUKE OF BEDFORD, Andrew Ian Henry, The 15th Duke Of Bedford — director, appointed 03/03/2010not on trustee list
• BEDFORD, Henrietta Joan, Duchess — director, appointed 12/08/2009on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Nicole Mary, The Honourable — director, appointed 12/08/2009on trustee list
• SHURROCK, Kevin Leslie — secretary, appointed 08/06/2011

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DUCHESS HENRIETTA JOAN BEDFORDchair
• Duke of Bedford Andrew BEDFORD
• KEVIN SHURROCK
• LYNNE ROSS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Jane Frances Marshall
• THE HON MRS NICOLE CAMPBELL

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

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Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

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• LYNNE ROSS — trustee here and at THE LYNNE AND NIGEL ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ADFAL TRUST.

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• THE BASSIL SHIPPAM AND ALSFORD TRUST income £164k
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• LEICESTERSHIRE EMPOWERMENT FOR AUTISM TODAY income £75k
• THE AORTIC CENTRE TRUST income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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