STANDING VOICE

Registered charity 1151250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Standing Voice's objective is to end human rights violations against marginalised groups through its Education, Health, Advocacy and Community Programmes. We currently focus on promoting the social inclusion of people with albinism in Africa, who commonly face extreme social exclusion leading to marginalisation from health and education services, social support, and witchcraft-fuelled murder.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: (I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND THE SAVING OF LIVES; (III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; AND(IV) THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY,IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION SO AS TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PRECEDING CLAUSE: (I) HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS HUMAN RIGHTS AS DEFINED IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS AND WILL BE PROMOTED IN PARTICULAR BY EDUCATION ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;(II) PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); DISABILITY OR MEDICAL CONDITION; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, COLOUR, CREED OR SEXUALITY; POOR EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £58,330 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,528,990 and expenditure of £1,470,660. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves carried forward were £234,521, which is below the stated policy target of six months' administration overheads (£329,253). The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Standing Voice (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alex Magaga — Operations 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• European Commission — “The European Commission supports projects and initiatives that address social challenges through its social innovation programs. Since Janua…” (source page)
• United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture — “Since 2019 Standing Voice has been proud to be a recipient of long term financial support from UNVFVT, enabling us to offer essential psycho…” (source page)
• International Foundation for Dermatology — “As a longstanding funder and partner of Standing Voice, ILDS and the IFD have supported Standing Voice to develop educational resources and …” (source page)
• Croda Foundation — “Standing Voice is proud to partner with the Croda Foundation on three year project to strengthen provision of skin cancer prevention service…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sabine Zettelerchair
• Gurmeet Kaur
• HARRY FREELAND
• Innocentia Nobuhle Mgijima-Konopi
• JONATHAN BEALE

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

Operates in: Malawi · Tanzania

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.

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 VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY.

• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE income £132k
• STAND OUT FOR AUTISM income £37k
• STANDPOINT STUDIO income £105k
• MIGRANT VOICE income £451k
• STANDING TALL CIO income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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