TALKING ABOUT LOSS

Registered charity 1189222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve the mental and physical sickness of persons resident in the East Riding of Yorkshire, suffering from bereavement or loss by the provision of counselling and support for such persons. Also to educate local businesses around supporting employees suffering from grief

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SICKNESS OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN YORKSHIRE, SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, SUPPORT, ACTIVITIES AND SUCHLIKE, FOR SUCH PERSONS.

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

Causes: Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£38k
Latest spending
£36k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,655, which represents the general fund balance at the end of the financial year. The trustees confirm that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, indicating no immediate risks to the charity's continuity. The charity was entitled to exemption from statutory audit under the small companies' regime.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 28/02/2025

  • Government income: £6,500 — grants £6,500 (2); 17% of the £37,974 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 29/02/2024

  • Government income: £2,420 — grants £2,420 (3); 6% of the £43,192 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 28/02/2023

  • Volunteers: 22

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2021 (received 23/02/2022, 57 days after the 28/12/2021 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Talking about Loss (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
28/02/2025£38k£36k
29/02/2024£43k£39k
28/02/2023£47k£46k
28/02/2022£27k£37k
28/02/2021£23k£13k

Common questions

Is TALKING ABOUT LOSS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,655, which represents the general fund balance at the end of the financial year. The trustees confirm that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, indicating no immediate risks to the charity's continuity. The charity was entitled to exemption from statutory audit under the small companies' regime. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds TALKING ABOUT LOSS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TALKING ABOUT LOSS as a grant recipient include HEY SMILE FOUNDATION, MATTHEW GOOD FOUNDATION, TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE SCURRAH WAINWRIGHT CHARITY, THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
HEY SMILE FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k
HEY SMILE FOUNDATIONFY2021£7k
MATTHEW GOOD FOUNDATIONFY2024£6k
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£5kGood Health and Wellbeing
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATIONFY2024Unverified read£5k
HEY SMILE FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k
THE SCURRAH WAINWRIGHT CHARITYFY2023£3k
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITYFY2022£2kMedical
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k

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.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund28/05/2024£20kBereavement & Mental Health Support
The National Lottery Community Fund29/09/2022£10kBereavement Support
UK government30/09/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund

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 THINK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TALKING ABOUT LOSS£38k—0unclear—no doubt
THINK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FY2025£50k—0unclear—no doubt
YORK WOMEN'S COUNSELLING SERVICE FY2025£142k—0above—no doubt
KEREN YESHAYE FY2025£931k—0unclear—no doubt
ABOUT YOU UK FY2025£98k—0above—no doubt
LEV CHAIM FY2025£192k—0unclear—no doubt

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