Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 9

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 8

STREET TALK

The provision of mental health care, including clinical psychology, counselling, advocacy and befriending for women in street sex work. Working in partnership with other agencies, the service is provided in hostels and day centres.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

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

Established: 17 years

www.street-talk.org.uk

info@street-talk.org.uk

07913817046

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£173	£151	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22	£133	£120	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/21	£200	£141	£59	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17
31/03/20	£73	£91	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17
31/03/19	£143	£108	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/18	£99	£90	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£76	£92	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£98	£70	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£69	£78	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£50	£60	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£91	£50	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£48	£43	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£58	£32	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£29	£27	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£17	£11	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£24	£11	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 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

Tudor Trust	£90,000
The Segelman Trust	£75,000
DCMS	£44,035
The London Community Foundation	£24,850
Rosa UK	£5,200
CAF	£2,500
London Catalyst	£2,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Tudor Trust - Grant to Street Talk
£90,000	25/11/2021 36	over three years as unrestricted funding for a London-based charity supporting women involved in street-based sex work through long-term counselling and practical support
London Catalyst - Street Talk - 3
£2,000	07/09/2021	Therapy for women with no recourse to public funds.
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Street Talk
£75,000	13/07/2021 36	To support core costs
Rosa UK - C19 R4-STREET-2021
£5,200	30/03/2021	A grant of £5,200 is recommended towards the costs of additional sessional therapists to offer telephone support to very vulnerable women with mental health problems including many who have NRPF.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Street Talk
£9,700	03/09/2020	The funding is for practical support for vulnerable migrant women including those who have been trafficked asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds as well as further support with ....more The funding is for practical support for vulnerable migrant women including those who have been trafficked asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds as well as further support with their mental health with additional counselling sessions.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£44,035	23/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Street Talk
£15,150	19/05/2020	We want to provide telephone helplines for all the women in the six hostels where we usually work, seventeen other hostels for homeless people Bronzefield Prison and the two Covid Protect Hotels in ....more We want to provide telephone helplines for all the women in the six hostels where we usually work, seventeen other hostels for homeless people Bronzefield Prison and the two Covid Protect Hotels in Camden where the rough sleepers have been placed. Our partner organisations, have requested that we provide this service to their women.
CAF - Grant to Street Talk
£2,500	23/04/2020 3	Grant to Street Talk to support the organisation through COVID19
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Street Talk
£60,000	25/09/2018 36	To release time of the Chief Executive to share their clinical model of therapy which is more inclusive for extremely vulnerable women
Comic Relief - new parrtnership
£98,000	30/09/2015 36	Many women involved in street prostitution have been abused, trafficked or exploited in childhood, are extremely vulnerable, at risk of violence, and often have severe mental health problems. They ....more Many women involved in street prostitution have been abused, trafficked or exploited in childhood, are extremely vulnerable, at risk of violence, and often have severe mental health problems. They often turn to drugs and alcohol to cope.Street Talk will provide emotional support, counselling, and art therapy for women involved in street prostitution who are living in hostel accommodation in Camden. Street Talk enables them to start to understand and come to terms with their experiences, build confidence and self-esteem and to take steps towards leaving prostitution and drug and alcohol dependency.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

AOIFE RITCHIE Appointed: 2022

CHARLOTTE LITTLEWOOD Appointed: 2016

COLLEEN RHODES Appointed: 2020

FATIMA BA Appointed: 2022

KERAN PAIGE Appointed: 2014

REBECCA HAMMOND

SOPHIE JONES Appointed: 2015

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/01/2007, number: 1117588

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

16 returns made; all on time

Main office

Street Talk
356 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

Objectives

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH AND RELIEVE POVERTY OF WOMEN IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF HACKNEY, TOWER HAMLETS AND CAMDEN WHO ARE INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION OR THE SEX INDUSTRY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGHS OF HACKNEY, TOWER HAMLETS AND CAMDEN

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