Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

THE BURY SPEAKEASY CLUB 

Speakeasy helps people with aphasia - a communication difficulty caused by stroke or other head injury. We also offer practical help and advice for families and carers of people with aphasia.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/12/22£94£101£-6n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/12/21£105£126£-21n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/20£163£117£47n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/12/19£111£107£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/18£64£77£-13£0£0£0n/a020
31/12/17£73£72£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£64£68£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£74£62£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£45£52£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£47£59£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£106£60£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£69£65£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£114£89£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£86£97£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£69£77£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£67£67£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£51£47£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£52£46£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£51£53£-3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 39 years

www.speakeasy-aphasia.org.uk

office@speakeasy-aphasia.org.uk

01706825802

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Lancashire, Manchester City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 13 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£269,679
DCMS£42,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Co-Operative Group£6,052
CAF£3,150
Forever Manchester£3,100
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Speaking Up
£259,679 17/03/2023
The funding will support The Bury Speakeasy Club to continue to deliver their intensive support in Bury and to beneficiaries across the North West to people with aphasia and their carers. Funding ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 30/04/2021
Supporting Communication
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Bury Speakeasy (also known as Speakeasy) - 01/04/21
£1,000 21/04/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - What matters most?
£10,000 05/03/2021
5
The funding will be used as a contribution to carry out external research of the organisation’s delivery approach as a whole; capturing areas that could potentially change the overall service to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,000 25/06/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Bury Speakeasy Club
£3,150 09/06/2020
3
Grant to Bury Speakeasy Club to support the organisation through COVID19
Forever Manchester - Distance Communication Group
£3,100 03/04/2020
Online and telephone speech therapy and mental health support for those with brain injuries and aphasia who are currently isolated and vulnerable.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Speakeasy
£6,052 15/11/2019
We want to train people and carers to have better conversations, when aphasia makes communication damaged and words difficult.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/06/2019
Living with aphasia
National Lottery Community Fund - Speaking Up 2
£145,918 26/09/2018
48
Speakeasy offers a range of long-term, bespoke, therapeutic and purposeful activities for people with aphasia (PWA). Aphasia affects the ability to use speech, to understand the speech of other ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Communicate IT
£9,990 20/09/2018
12
The funding will be used to support people with aphasia to using weekly computer therapy clinics. The project aims to provide support, reduce isolation and make a positive and lasting difference to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Aphasia Voices - More Than Words
£9,950 08/02/2017
12
The funding will be used to run a programme of workshops and activities for people who have aphasia and their families. The project aims to help people with a disability to improve their confidence, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Speaking Up
£88,193 02/05/2014
36
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bury Speakeasy
£25,000 30/06/2011
the salary costs of the Group Manager and Project Co-ordinator
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/04/1985, number: 516092
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Speakeasy
11 Princes Court
Silver Street
Ramsbottom
BURY
BL0 9BJ

Objectives

(A) TO RELIEVE COMFORT AND SUPPORT PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A STROKE AND AS A RESULT HAS A SPEECH PROBLEM OR HAS ANY OTHER SPEECH PROBLEM; (B) TO PROVIDE OR SECURE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE TREATMENT AND WELFARE OF SUCH PERSONS; (C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BURY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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