Voice 21

Registered charity 1152672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCHOOL 21 FOUNDATION

Voice 21 exists to enable economically disadvantaged pupils in the UK to develop good oracy skills. We do this by building the capacity of teachers and schools to provide a high quality oracy education while developing and promoting a compelling evidence base for the impact and importance of oracy.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT (IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY:2.1 RESEARCHING, PARTICIPATING IN AND SUPPORTING INNOVATION IN EDUCATION; AND/OR2.2 SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (AND SCHOOLS IN PARTICULAR) IN ANY WAY THAT THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;AND WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON PREPARING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR SUCCESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

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

Causes: Education/training · 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 generated a surplus of £457,533 for the year ended 31 August 2025, increasing its total unrestricted free reserves to £1,130,667. The trustees report that this level of reserves represents 3.90 months of operating expenditure, which is above their stated policy target of holding three months of operating expenditure as unrestricted reserves. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Haslers Chartered Accountants. 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
• 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
• 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

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

• Tim Judge — Director of Programmes (source)
• Shirley Mustoe — Director of Operations (source)
• Amy Gaunt — Interim Director of Strategic Development (source)
• Amanda Moorghen — Interim Director of Learning, Impact & Influence (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baroness Estelle Morris · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emuesiri Lawrence
• Methusalah Joseph Sealy
• Miriam Christine Jordan Keane
• PETER HYMAN
• Robert Craig
• Sonia Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY.

• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• TALK THE TALK income £895k
• 1VOICE - COMMUNICATING TOGETHER income £38k
• VOICE OF THE CHILD income £343k
• YOUR VOICE COUNTS income £2.1m
• GATHERING VOICES LIMITED income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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