Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 4

VOCAL ADVOCACY

Vocal offers a free and independent issue based Advocacy services for adults with learning disabilities or communication difficulties.Vocal is also able to take on specialist contract work and can provide training for small groups of clients and the people who support them.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased 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 including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

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

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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	£109	£107	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/22	£81	£90	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21	£80	£76	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20	£89	£82	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/19	£98	£75	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18	£55	£87	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£99	£93	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£83	£89	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£75	£85	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£79	£68	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 11 years
(18 years as a company)

www.vocaladvocacy.org.uk

vocaladvocacy@btconnect.com

01803868300

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Devon, Torbay,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
9 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Vocal Advocacy
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to VOCAL
£119,300	07/04/2022 36	towards three years' salary of three Advocate's at a project providing one-to-one and self advocacy in South and West Devon and Torbay.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Vocal Advocacy
£50,000	08/12/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Vocal Advocacy
Tudor Trust - Grant to Vocal Advocacy
£60,000	19/11/2014 36	over three years to develop and pilot an independent support brokerage service for adults with communication difficulties in South Devon_x000D_
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Vocal Advocacy
£18,300	28/02/2013	Vocal is a South Devon charity supporting the disabled and others who are disadvantaged. It seeks funding for a multi-media advocacy project. This will help to give service users a much more ....more Vocal is a South Devon charity supporting the disabled and others who are disadvantaged. It seeks funding for a multi-media advocacy project. This will help to give service users a much more effective voice.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-75

JENNIFER LYNCH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

MARY DODSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

JANET REGAN (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired

MARGARET MARION CUSHEN Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Consultant, Other trusteeships: DEVON WEAVERS WORKSHOP, DARTINGTON RECREATION ASSOCIATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/07/2013, number: 1152778
Registered at Companies House on 14/03/2006, number: 05741949

Gift Aid

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
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

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Vocal Advocacy
Lower Close
Dartington Hall
Totnes
TQ9 6EN

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH SPEECH AND COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES BY PROVIDING A SERVICE TO ASSIST THOSE PERSONS TO REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN

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