RAISE YOUR VOICE

Registered charity 1191932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raise Your Voice is a music project for vulnerable people living with dementia and their carers, based in the area around Lewes, East Sussex. Each session is run by two professional musicians, (singer and pianist). They are supported by a team of volunteers with a wealth of experience of working with vulnerable adults in social care, as well as in the legal profession.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SPECIFICALLY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND RELIEF, THROUGH REGULAR SINGING SESSIONS, FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA IN THE SUSSEX AREA AND THEIR CARERS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £25,282.68 against a policy target of retaining sufficient reserves for the next two years. The trustees report a major risk regarding the ability to secure future grant funding, yet confirm adequate resources for going concern. The charity generated a surplus of £26,070.32 for the year, with total incoming resources of £52,119.11.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2022 (received 17/10/2023, 47 days after the 31/08/2023 due date); year ending 31/10/2021 (received 01/09/2022, 1 day after the 31/08/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council — “Raise Your Voice is proud to have secured a major Arts Council award for 2024-2025. This generous grant enables us to realise a long-cherish…” (source page)
• Alzheimer's Society — “Raise Your Voice was established in 2008 when the Alzheimer's Society and other dementia consultants approached Glyndebourne Education Depar…” (source page)
• Alzheimer Society — “The project grew from being a stand-alone five-week winter project to a regular singing group meeting throughout the year, initially funded …” (source page)
• Glyndebourne Opera — “The project grew from being a stand-alone five-week winter project to a regular singing group meeting throughout the year, initially funded …” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Alison Dunford BA Hons MAchair
• ANDREW JOHN SYMONDS
• Charlotte Wallis
• R H CLOW

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• YOUR VOICE COUNTS income £2.1m
• YOUR VOICE ADVOCACY PROJECT income £88k
• OUR DEMENTIA CHOIR income £204k
• EMERGING VOICES income £47k
• CELEBRATE VOICE income £146k
• ELDERS' VOICE income £369k

Side by side with its peers

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