KEEP TALKING SERVICES

Registered charity 1200275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of telephone befriending to sufferers of loneliness and or ill health.

Objects

For the public benefit, the relief of those who are experiencing either or a combination of ill health and or poor mental health, and have become socially isolated as a result, particularly but not exclusively in Kent, through the provision of support, signposting, and befriending services.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus on unrestricted funds of £44,236, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £81,484. However, the charity incurred a deficit on restricted funds of £17,118, reducing restricted reserves to £18,100. The trustees' report indicates that unrestricted reserves are below the stated policy target of holding at least three months of average operating expenses.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Keep Talking Services (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Bernalchair
• Charlotte Simpson
• Jennifer Sutton
• Leigh Saunders
• Teresa Barker

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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