SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1139377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEAKERSBANK, SPEAKERSBANK LIMITED

Speakers Trust is the Uk's leading public speaking training organisation working in education and in partnership with the not for profit sector. We are the fastest-growing provider of public speaking and communication training in the UK and work with people from all walks of life.

Objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PUBLIC SPEAKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.

Area of benefit: 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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 £27,812 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £317,658 to £289,846. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operational activities for the foreseeable future, with the accounts prepared on a going concern basis. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £289,846, which falls within its stated policy target range of £200,000 to £360,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 6 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
• Investment
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Russell Findlay — CEO (source)
• Lizzie Runham — Chair (source)
• Alanna Beeken — Programmes 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Leslie Read
• Andrew Rawnsley
• Charles Anthony Lesser
• Elizabeth Frances Runham
• Javneet Ghuman
• Louise Claire Lee
• Martin Robert Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Piers Frederick Lloyd
• Simon John Newton Heale

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

Operates in: 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 SPEAKERS FOR SCHOOLS.

• SPEAKERS FOR SCHOOLS income £5.7m
• SPEAKUP SELF ADVOCACY LIMITED income £657k
• THE SPEAKERS ART FUND income £107k
• ENGLISH SPEAKING BOARD (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED income £1.4m
• The Talk About Trust income £365k
• THE TALKING TABOOS FOUNDATION income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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