Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7

APHASIA RE-CONNECT 

At Aphasia Re-Connect we make sure that people with aphasia are at the centre of everything we do, working in equal partnership, to develop and deliver services for people experiencing communication disability. Building on their strengths, life experience, and expertise in living with aphasia, they take on roles as peer supporters, advisors, peer befrienders, peer trainers and trustees.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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: 6 years

https://aphasiareconnect.org/contact/

sally@aphasiareconnect.org

07885 288943

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£62,875£58,919£3,95680
31/03/22£72,486£63,408£9,07880
31/03/21£76,726£43,992£32,73480
31/03/20£48,898£22,080£26,81880
31/03/19£48,898£22,080£26,81855
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 80 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£619,235
National Lottery Community Fund£19,388
DCMS£12,214
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
The London Community Foundation£9,282
London Catalyst£6,000
Cripplegate Foundation£2,830
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/02/2022
Aphasia Re-Connect: reconnecting people with aphasia with life
National Lottery Community Fund - Aphasia Re-Connect: reducing isolation and loneliness for people with aphasia
£9,400 17/09/2021
The funding will be used to reinstate the groups one to one sessions for people living with the effects of Aphasia. The project aims to reduce increased feelings of isolation and loneliness as a ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Relocatable rapid charging hub for fleet charging solutions
£523,253 01/08/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004633
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Aphasia Re-Connect
£2,830 29/06/2021
Aphasia Reconnect Islington
London Catalyst - Aphasia Re-Connect - 2
£3,000 11/05/2021
New Norm Aphasia Re-Connect
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - 6-minute EV - an EV battery that can be charged in 6-minutes
£95,982 01/05/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004534
The London Community Foundation - Grant to APHASIA RE-CONNECT
£9,282 09/09/2020
Funding is for people with Aphasia, helps them recover the ability to talk by group meetings that practise the lost art of talking. This also provides companionship, overcomes loneliness & builds ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,282 09/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£2,932 18/08/2020
"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
London Catalyst - Aphasia Re-Connect - 1
£3,000 03/09/2019
To fund 2 new London drop-in centres: engaging hubs stimulating communication through conversation & performance, supporting aphasia sufferers & their
National Lottery Community Fund - Aphasia Re-Connect opportunities
£9,988 21/06/2019
12
The funding will be used to expand a community support network that is designed to meet the needs of people who live with the effects of Aphasia. The project aims to improve wellbeing for people who ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/12/2017, number: 1176125
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

17 Elm Road
BECKENHAM
Kent
BR3 4JB

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR PEOPLE WITH APHASIA, AND OTHERS WITH ACQUIRED LONG-TERM COMMUNICATION DISABILITY, LIVING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND, THROUGH:(I) THE PROVISION OF SPEECH THERAPY THROUGH SUPPORTED CONVERSATION GROUPS(II) PROVIDING TRAINING TO VOLUNTEERS TO FACILITATE PEER GROUPS, PEER BEFRIENDERS AND PEER TRAINING(III) PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON ALL ASPECTS OF APHASIA AND ACQUIRED COMMUNICATION DISABILITY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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