Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 13

Future income +5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 22

VOICES FOR LIFE

Voices for Life is a registered charity to help inspire children to be happy and confident through the provision of high-quality specialised singing and confidence coaching programmes for primary schools. Through the powerful interplay of music and confidence and emotion coaching techniques, the programmes will enable children to build their emotional wellbeing, confidence and self-esteem.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£136	£68	£68	n/a
31/03/22	£65	£50	£15	n/a
31/03/21	£27	£8	£18	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.voicesforlife.org.uk

tessa@voicesforlife.org.uk

07989343195

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Community sports activities

How it operates

Makes grants to individuals
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Fore	£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£18,000
Postcode Local Trust	£15,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£14,933
The Foyle Foundation	£7,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Fore - Grant to Voices for Life
£30,000	01/04/2024 24	Voices for Life uses the power of music to empower children to be happy and confident in primary schools in Bath. Tessa Armstrong, a musician aware of the benefits of music on wellbeing, founded Voices for Life in response to the increased mental ....more Voices for Life uses the power of music to empower children to be happy and confident in primary schools in Bath. Tessa Armstrong, a musician aware of the benefits of music on wellbeing, founded Voices for Life in response to the increased mental health issues in young people, coupled with diminishing music provision in schools. Musicians visit schools weekly to work with 30-40 children and other programmes include community choirs and whole school singing assemblies. They are inundated with requests to work with new schools in new areas, but they don’t have capacity to respond. Our funding will allow Tessa to sustainably grow the organisation across the South West. Their existing model will be replicated first in South Gloucestershire, followed by Somerset and later Cornwall.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Voices for Life
£5,000	01/02/2024 5	For a new music and wellbeing project for primary school children in Bath to enjoy making music and bringing different schools together.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000	06/11/2023 24	Voices for Life Core and Project Development Costs
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,000	07/02/2023	towards the expansion of the Stardust Singing and Wellbeing Project for children aged 7 to 11 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Voices for Life
£4,933	08/12/2022	Towards a new singing and wellbeing project, ‘Shining a light on children’s uniqueness'.
Postcode Local Trust - Charity development and sustainable growth costs
£15,000	27/08/2022	Funding supported operational costs to support the expansion of its projects to help improve the mental wellbeing of primary aged children.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£3,000	29/07/2022	Voices for Life's Core Costs
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Voices for Life
£5,000	21/12/2021 3	Towards the music and wellbeing Stardust project, supporting the mental health of primary school children in Bath.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DAVID LEE GOUCHER Appointed: 2021

DEBORAH HALE Appointed: 2023

ELEAN LOUISA YVETTE OLDFIELD Appointed: 2024

JOANNE FAYE BIRD Appointed: 2022

MARY EDWARDS Appointed: 2020

PETER JOHN MARTIN (Chair) Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/09/2020, number: 1191491

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

12a Eastrip Lane
Colerne
CHIPPENHAM
SN14 8AX

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF 12 LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING MUSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION

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