VOCAL ADVOCACY

Registered charity 1152778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Vocal offers a free and independent issue based Advocacy services for adults with learning disabilities or communication difficulties.Vocal is also able to take on specialist contract work and can provide training for small groups of clients and the people who support them.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH SPEECH AND COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES BY PROVIDING A SERVICE TO ASSIST THOSE PERSONS TO REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has sufficient financial resources to carry on its activities for the next twelve months, with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner. The Treasurer’s report notes that free reserves are at a relatively low level due to an increased allocation to restricted reserves, placing greater emphasis on generating additional unrestricted income to ensure financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05741949

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Vocal Advocacy (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEWIS, Cheryl — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
• LYNCH, Jennifer Kate — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• DODSON, Mary Vaughan — director, appointed 16/06/2021on trustee list
• REGAN, Janet Mary — director, appointed 31/12/2012on trustee list
• LYNCH, Jennifer Kate — secretary, appointed 04/03/2025

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): linkedin

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANET REGANchair
• Cheryl Lewis
• Jennifer Lynch
• Mary Dodson

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City · Somerset · Torbay

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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