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.

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Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£1.5m

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Highest-paid employee band: £80,000 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The average monthly number of employees during the year, calculated on the basis of average monthly head count, was as follows: Charitable Activities £80,000 - £90,000 2025 12.2” — page 22

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 12

“The average monthly number of employees during the year, calculated on the basis of average monthly head count, was as follows: Charitable Activities £80,000 - £90,000 2025 12.2” — page 22

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: minimum £200,000, upper limit £360,000 (held: £290k)

“To achieve this policy the trustees agreed that the minimum unrestricted free reserves should be at £200,000 with a desire to secure an upper limit of £360,000”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

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)

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£1.5m

Cost of raising funds

£26k

Reserves (reported)

£290k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£1.5m	£1.5m
31/08/2024	£1.4m	£1.5m
31/08/2023	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/08/2022	£1.3m	£1.2m
31/08/2021	£717k	£703k

Common questions

Is SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,000 - £90,000 band, and 12 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED as a grant recipient include JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION, KUSUMA TRUST UK, THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION, THE FRANK JACKSON FOUNDATION, The Keith Howard Foundation.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION	FY2022	£852k	Jack Petchey's Speak Out Challenge
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2025	£84k	Culturally Speaking programme
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2023	£84k	Culturally Speaking programme
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2024	£84k	Culturally Speaking programme
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	FY2024	£38k	Speakers Trust trains young people to improve their public speaking & communication skills, empowering them to confidently share their voices and perspectives,
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	FY2025	£33k	Speakers Trust trains young people to improve their public speaking & communication skills, empowering them to confidently share their voices and perspectives,
THE FRANK JACKSON FOUNDATION	FY2025	£25k
The Keith Howard Foundation	FY2023	£20k
THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION	FY2025	£15k	restricted
The Merchant Taylors' Foundation	FY2025	£10k	Education
THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£10k
THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2026	£7k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	FY2023	£5k	Youth
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	FY2025	£5k	Youth
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION	FY2022	£5k	Grant
THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£4k
THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION	FY2026	—	unrestricted
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION	FY2021	—	Not specified in grant list.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/04/2019	£10k	Empowering vulnerable youth to speak out
City Bridge Foundation	13/09/2018	£49k	Grant to Speakers Trust Limited

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
AL Philanthropies	1	£25.8m
THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST	1	£3.3m
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£200k
THE DISTILLERS' CHARITY	1	£173k
THE STEWARTS LAW FOUNDATION	1	£75k
INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION	1	£40k
LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY COMMERCIAL EDUCATION TRUST	1	£40k
THE DORSET HEALTH TRUST LIMITED	1	£40k

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
BIBLICAL CREATION TRUST income £106k
ENGLISH SPEAKING BOARD (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED income £1.4m
PEOPLE SPEAK UP LTD income £422k
The Talk About Trust income £365k
THE LEADERS OF WORSHIP AND PREACHERS TRUST income £313k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED	£1.5m	£80,000 - £90,000	12	unclear	—	no doubt
SPEAKERS FOR SCHOOLS FY2025	£5.7m	£150,001 - £160,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BIBLICAL CREATION TRUST FY2025	£106k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ENGLISH SPEAKING BOARD (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED FY2025	£1.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PEOPLE SPEAK UP LTD FY2025	£422k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
The Talk About Trust FY2025	£365k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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