Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

APHASIA SUPPORT 

Aphasia Support is a Yorkshire based charity who support people with aphasia on a one to one basis and on a group basis through our aphasia cafes. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of people with aphasia and their carers, by providing tailored speech and language therapy and long term support. We want to create a world where every person with aphasia has access to long term support.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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: 13 years

www.aphasiasupport.org

jamesmajor@aphasiasupport.org

01924562443

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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£317£211£107n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£162£159£3n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/03/21£206£109£97n/an/an/an/an/a75
31/03/20*£112£101£11n/an/an/an/an/a75
31/03/19£67£55£12n/an/an/an/an/a55
31/03/18£20£32£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£20£32£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£24£21£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£10£8£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£4£13£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£14£10£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£17£3£13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 60 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
National Lottery Community Fund£600,278
Leeds Community Foundation£19,491
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,590
Community Foundation for Calderdale£9,490
Nova Wakefield£8,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Calderdale Aphasia Cafe
£4,492 08/08/2023
Grant to Aphasia Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Aphasia Support Yorkshire
£267,602 16/06/2023
This funding will be used to continue development of their outreach work with people with Aphasia in Wakefield and across Yorkshire and the Humber. It will cover key staff posts continuation of their ....more
Nova Wakefield - Grant to Aphasia Support/Speak with IT
£8,000 23/05/2023
Funding to support the running of our Wakefield App Club which is a group support project and will involve 12 people with aphasia being supported by the charity’s specialist speech and language ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Speak with IT
£3,000 07/07/2022
Core costs for Advancement of Health/Saving Lives
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Calderdale Aphasia Cafe
£4,998 28/06/2022
Grant to Aphasia Support
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 03/12/2021
Pathway of Support
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to Speak With IT
£5,000 13/07/2021
Funding to contribute towards the cost of Speech and Language Therapy Assessments needed to resume face to face SALT assessments for 25x paused clients after a long period of inactivity.
Leeds Community Foundation - Leeds Aphasia Café Transition
£4,206 03/06/2021
The project will take the Leeds aphasia café through a transitional period, focusing on becoming more needs led, person centered and include carer support.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,590 17/08/2020
"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
Leeds Community Foundation - Covid-19
£9,640 14/05/2020
Grant to Speak With IT
National Lottery Community Fund - Speak with IT Continuation
£332,676 19/03/2020
36
Speak With IT supports stroke survivors who are experiencing aphasia, an impairment of language which affects people's ability to speak, read, write and understand to varying degrees. The funding ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Sing Aphasia!
£5,645 28/06/2019
12
Improving speech and comprehension abilities for people with aphasia via one to one home based support; providing an opportunity for people with aphasia to come together and practice their ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Aphasia Support Workshops
£2,940 11/12/2018
Funding for a speech therapists to assist volunteers to help elderly people living with aphasia, focusing on supported communication sessions which also provide respite for carers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Barnsley Aphasia Tech Club
£4,560 26/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver sessions for people with aphasia using specialist computer therapy programmes. The project aims to improve communication skills and reduce isolation.
Leeds Community Foundation - Find my voice - Leeds
£6,802 14/05/2018
12
Restoring speech and comprehension abilities to over 30 people diagnosed with aphasia, through a combination of one to one support in the home so they can develop their confidence to participate in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Speak With IT
£254,156 27/01/2017
36
Speak with IT aims to support over 200 people with Aphasia across Yorkshire to regain and/or improve their communication skills and confidence. It will empower them to regain control of their own ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-72
  • JUDITH HINTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired Childcare Practitioner
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/07/2011, number: 1143106
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/2011, number: 07535494
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
12 returns made; AR20: 3 days late,
Main office

BALNE LANE COMMUNITY CENTRE
BALNE LANE
WAKEFIELD
WEST YORKSHIRE
WF2 0DP

Objectives

1. TO ASSIST IN THE REHABILITATION AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM APHASIA BY THE PROVISION OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES WHICH ARE AIMED TO SUPPLEMENT AND WORK ALONGSIDE THE TREATMENT GIVEN TO SUFFERERS BY DOCTORS AND OTHER HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS.2. TO ADVANCE AND FACILITATE THE RECOVERY AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF SUFFERERS OF APHASIA BY THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES AND FACILITIES ABOVE REFERRED TO AT PARAGRAPH (1) ABOVE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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