TALK THE TALK

Registered charity 1161251 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a charity providing school staff and students with a range of practical oracy workshops - all delivered by professional experts and qualified teachers, especially trained in the use of oracy as an educational tool.Our workshops hone skills and support a consistent approach to oracy being employed in all subjects throughout schools.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(I) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR IN SPEAKING, LISTENING AND WRITING SKILLS,(II) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS,CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS RESPONSIBLEINDIVIDUALS, IN PARTICULAR BY DELIVERING EDUCATION, TRAINING AND TEACHING CONFIDENTCOMMUNICATION SKILLS.

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

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Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £20,725 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £229,380 to £208,655. Per the trustees' report, the charity's reserves policy is to hold unrestricted reserves sufficient to cover twelve months' operating costs, but the current unrestricted reserves of £203,005 are below this stated target given the recent deficit. The charity relies on a mix of charitable activity income and grants, with significant deferred income held in restricted funds for future workshop delivery.

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 5 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
• Investment
• 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

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Jack Petchey Foundation — “Supported by The Jack Petchey Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen John Phillipschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel James Sanderson Wellings
• David Aitchison
• David Aldred
• John Constable
• Katherine Gibson
• Kay Kavanagh
• Maura Rose McMahon

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

Operates in: 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

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 NEED TO TALK.

• NEED TO TALK income £45k
• THE ORATORY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION income £10.9m
• LET'S TALK READING income £35k
• TALK ABOUT ART income £41k
• THE TELLING income £202k
• Voice 21 income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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