Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

TLC: TALK, LISTEN, CHANGE

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change provide a range of services in support of safe, healthy and happy relationships. These include: - counselling for children, young people, individual adults, couples and families- domestic abuse prevention programmes for perpetrators - mediation and separation services- community volunteering projects- partnership relationship-focussed projects
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£4,446£4,392£54£0£525£4371.213417
31/03/22£3,150£3,062£87£0£471£3061.210862
31/03/21£2,061£2,038£23£0£383£3512.187222
31/03/20£1,962£1,948£15£0£360£2531.688178
31/03/19£1,591£1,584£7£0£346£3182.478162
31/03/18£1,086£1,292£-206£0£141£1261.2760
31/03/17£1,119£1,102£17£0£347£650.7820
31/03/16*£782£751£31£5£330£2183.5590
31/03/15£604£695£-91£7£298£2153.7220
31/03/14£515£641£-126£7£390£3105.8210
31/03/13£520£605£-85£8£516£4198.3190
31/03/12*£652£652£0£8£601£5049.3190
31/03/11*£706£691£16£8£601£5128.9190
31/03/10£648£700£-52£8£585£4888.4190
31/03/09£675£713£-38£8£637£5429.1190
31/03/08£687£612£76£7£676£57711.3140
31/03/07*£682£600£82£6£600£4849.720
31/03/06£557£485£71n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£469£469£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£450£421£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 82%
Liabilities/Income: 54%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 43 years

www.talklistenchange.org.uk

enquiries@talklistenchange.org.uk

01618721100

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£125,200
BBC Children in Need£119,132
Manchester City Council£40,000
The Pilgrim Trust£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to TLC Talk Listen Change
£15,500 21/12/2023
Behaviour Change Programmes for Children and Young People in Salford
National Lottery Community Fund - Free counselling for vulnerable adults
£10,000 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to provide free counselling to vulnerable adults living in the local area with the aim of reducing loneliness anxiety and supporting people through loss and life changes.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
BBC Children in Need - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£115,661 10/08/2021
This project will deliver counselling and a weekly youth group to children and young people impacted by domestic abuse. It will result in increased safety and wellbeing whilst reducing isolation.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to TLC: Talk Listen Change
£13,778 24/07/2020
Grant to TLC: Talk Listen Change meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Stockport MBC - Grant to TLC for Stockport
£10,000 29/06/2020
Family counselling
BBC Children in Need - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£2,971 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund counselling and therapeutic support for young people who have experienced domestic abuse while they are isolated at home due to Covid-19. This will improve their emotional wellbeing.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£125,200 10/06/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Bridging to Change' Domestic Abuse Programme for male perpetrators of abuse in Wigan, Greater Manchester
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£35,000 03/06/2020
42
A three-year grant towards Bridging to Change - a behaviour change programme for male perpetrators of domestic abuse
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,971 29/05/2020
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 and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Manchester City Council - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£40,000 28/04/2020
Grant for the delivery of the Bridging to Change programme by Talk, Listen, Change
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£20,000 17/04/2020
12
Emergency Covid Additional Grant unrestricted core costs
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£3,500 14/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with domestic and sexual abuse in Greater Manchester
National Lottery Community Fund - TLC for Greater Manchester
£9,994 03/04/2020
11
The funding will be used to provide 200 sessions of online and telephone counselling to Greater Manchester residents who are experiencing challenges with their relationships and family circumstances due to the Coronavirus restrictions.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£60,000 06/12/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Bridging to Change Women Who Use Violence Programme
£79,349 16/11/2018
Our project will develop our work with women who use violence in their intimate relationships and expand our pilot of behaviour change work across Trafford and then Greater Manchester.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change (Formerly Relate GS)
£111,016 23/10/2018
36
This grant will provide counsellors and therapeutic support to young people who have experienced domestic abuse. This will allow them access to safe spaces, improve their emotional health and reduce their feelings of isolation.
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to TLC: Talk, Listen, Change
£60,000 24/09/2018
36
Towards the extension of the Striving to Change Project, delivering awareness and motivational work with perpetrators of domestic abuse, both male and female.
GMCVO - Mental health and well-being
£50,000 21/11/2017
People living in poverty and/or are financially excluded
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to TLC: Talk Listen Change
£74,597 24/04/2017
36
The grant will fund a new Project Coordinator who will develop the Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme which aims to challenge the values and beliefs that the men have held about women encouraging instead their motivation to change.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Greater Manchester South
£125,200 09/03/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Bridging to Change Domestic Abuse Programme' for male perpetrators of abuse in Salford, Greater Manchester
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Relate - Greater Manchester South
£74,597 10/09/2014
The grant will fund a new Project Coordinator who will develop the Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme which aims to challenge the values and beliefs that the men have held about women encouraging instead their motivation to change.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-68
  • ADIBA SULTAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Health Development Co-Ordinator
  • ALVIN RAYMODE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Auditor
  • BARBARA SHUTTLEWORTH Appointed: 2002, Occupation: Accountant
  • CAROLYN MICHELLE BLUNT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • CHARLOTTE JOSEPHINE SPAIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • CHONG LIU Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL GASKELL (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor
  • GERARD DRUGAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Business Consultant
  • GRANT NICHOLAS LOWE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • SARAH ELIZABETH INGLEBY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/05/1982, number: 512710
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/05/1981, number: 01559314
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR16: 2 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR07: 6 days late,
Main office

Floor 5
Trafford House
Chester Road
Manchester

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CENTRE ARE:TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EMOTIONAL WELLBEING THROUGH ASSISTING PEOPLE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF POSITIVE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BY THE PROVISION OF HOLISTIC SUPPORT SERVICES (SUCH AS COUNSELLING, PARENTING COURSES, DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES, PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INITIATIVES AND FAMILY MEDIATION) WHICH ARE NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED IN A HOLISTIC OR CONSISTENT MANNER BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD, BOROUGHS OF TRAFFORD, STOCKPORT AND TAMESIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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