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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baroness Estelle Morris · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emuesiri Lawrence
• Joysy John
• 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

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with USER VOICE.

• USER VOICE income £784k
• Connected Voice income £1.9m
• ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH income £2.6m
• CORAM VOICE (FORMERLY VOICE FOR THE CHILD IN CARE) income £2.7m
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• VOICE4CHANGE ENGLAND LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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