Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 10

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 10

AFASIC

Afasic is a UK wide charity that represents and helps children and young people affected by speech, language and communication needs and their families. It operates a helpline and website, runs training for parents and professionals, and organises activities for children and young people. Afasic is a membership organisation and has local groups and points of contact across the country.

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
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 29 years

www.afasic.org.uk

info@afasic.org.uk

02074909410

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£181	£232	£-51	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	86
31/03/22	£273	£183	£90	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	87
31/03/21	£192	£166	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/20	£199	£201	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/19	£194	£183	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	95
31/03/18	£517	£627	£-109	£30	£372	£282	5.4	15	0
31/03/17	£807	£804	£3	£73	£478	£287	4.3	21	0
31/03/16	£882	£1,016	£-134	£77	£458	£166	2	29	0
31/03/15	£1,025	£1,098	£-73	£185	£604	£253	2.8	16	0
31/03/14	£998	£1,117	£-120	£197	£656	£219	2.3	16	0
31/03/13	£952	£1,001	£-48	£213	£770	£292	3.5	15	0
31/03/12	£860	£794	£66	£253	£792	£414	6.3	13	0
31/03/11	£782	£741	£41	£211	£731	£422	6.8	13	0
31/03/10	£781	£722	£59	£158	£675	£315	5.2	14	0
31/03/09	£755	£885	£-129	£220	£504	£186	2.5	14	0
31/03/08	£788	£891	£-103	£227	£782	£404	5.4	13	0
31/03/07	£928	£779	£149	£89	£932	£528	8.1	13	0
31/03/06	£582	£802	£-220	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£828	£811	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£982	£742	£240	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
86 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
The Foyle Foundation	£13,250
Masonic Trust	£12,000
True Colours Trust	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Afasic - 23/02/22
£1,500	08/03/2022	Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	28/01/2022	Core Costs
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£13,250	03/12/2021	to cover the costs of the part-time Primary to Secondary Transition Course Coordinator for 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£12,000	10/11/2021	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
True Colours Trust - Towards running costs – COVID19 response
£5,000	06/10/2020	Towards running costs – COVID19 response
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£15,000	14/02/2019	towards Primary to Secondary Transition Courses for children with persistent speech, language and communication disabilities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to (New Dragon's Youth Club) Afasic Cymru
£2,875	19/11/2018	Money will be used to run activities and cover staff costs and training to help young people with speech and language needs.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Afasic National
£109,032	02/03/2018 36	This project will provide summer courses for young people with speech and language problems, to ease transition into high schools. Young people will gain in confidence, become more independent and ....more This project will provide summer courses for young people with speech and language problems, to ease transition into high schools. Young people will gain in confidence, become more independent and improved social skills.
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000	21/02/2018	Advice and information, training and support for children and young people with speech, language and communication disabilities.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to North Surrey Afasic
£3,500	08/06/2017 12	towards one year's running costs of a project in Surrey providing activities and support for children and young people affected by speech and language impairment
National Lottery Community Fund - Communities Communicating
£426,323	24/09/2014 36	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Voice For Life
£298,926	18/02/2014 36	The development of previous work by Afasic to support and develop communication, social, and life skills of children and young people (CYP) under the age of 25 years with specific language impairment ....more The development of previous work by Afasic to support and develop communication, social, and life skills of children and young people (CYP) under the age of 25 years with specific language impairment (SLI) across England. The disability sometimes occurs as part of another disability, such as DownÂ’s Syndrome, a hearing impairment or may appear in children who are otherwise developing normally.
National Lottery Community Fund - Listen Hear
£422,246	20/10/2011 48	The grant will be used to improve the lives of young people across NI who've speech, language & communication needs. The project will run a range of activities & services to improve ....more The grant will be used to improve the lives of young people across NI who've speech, language & communication needs. The project will run a range of activities & services to improve confidence, self-esteem & social skills of the young people. The project is already being run in the South Eastern area, the grant is being used to expand it across the rest of NI. Project officers will run a range of support services to prepare young people as they move from primary to secondary school.
National Lottery Community Fund - Getting The Message Across
£226,477	29/09/2010 48	The project will develop and deliver support to young people with Speech, Language and Communication Impairments (SLCI), through social skills workshops, activity days and a Youth Forum. It will also ....more The project will develop and deliver support to young people with Speech, Language and Communication Impairments (SLCI), through social skills workshops, activity days and a Youth Forum. It will also provide awareness training for staff in external organisations that work with young people, including secondary schools and youth and leisure facilities.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-77

JUSTIN RANDOLPH BUTCHER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Shift Co-Ordinator

CAROL LESLEY EVERINGHAM Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

CHRISTOPHER HAMMOND Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Company Director

GEORGE FRANCIS JAMES DREWITT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Engineer, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF NORK WITH BURGH HEATH,

JOHN CHARLES PERRY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

JONATHAN EMIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Financier

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/04/1995, number: 1045617
Registered at Companies House on 23/03/1995, number: 03036802

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

15 Old Ford Road
St Margaret's House
London
E2 9PJ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS; WITH A FOCUS ON IMPAIRED SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS AND ENABLE THEM TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL; AND TO ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE FULLY WITHIN SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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