VOICE OF THE CHILD

Registered charity 1135666 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOC

Voice of the Child is a child contact and family support centre working to empower and strengthen families.We also provide respite care and sensory aid (through our sensory facility) to individuals with special needs and or learning difficulties.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH, ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, BY PROVIDING A COMMUNITY BASED FAMILY SUPPORT FACILITY

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £5,311 for the year ended 30 April 2025, following an increase in income to £342,634. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £(47,710), which is a deficit below its stated policy target of maintaining three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees acknowledge that financial and staffing constraints pose a serious threat to the charity’s survival and ability to meet growing demand.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 09/05/2024, 70 days after the 29/02/2024 due date); year ending 30/04/2021 (received 08/03/2022, 8 days after the 28/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phoenix-Rises Tabot-Ojongchair
• ANTHONY FOMUSO
• Catherine Palmer
• JULIAN EBAI HONS LLM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phoenix-Rises Tabot Ojong

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 CORAM VOICE (FORMERLY VOICE FOR THE CHILD IN CARE).

• CORAM VOICE (FORMERLY VOICE FOR THE CHILD IN CARE) income £2.7m
• VOICES FOR LIFE income £124k
• VOICES income £328k
• YOUR VOICE COUNTS income £2.1m
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• FAMILY VOICE SURREY income £246k

Side by side with its peers

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