Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 6
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

ACTION FOR STAMMERING CHILDREN 

We provide a free specialist assessment service to children and young adults who stammer from any part of the UK and a full training programme for therapists.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Comment by the Charity:
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Established: 35 years

www.actionforstammeringchildren.org

info@stammeringchildren.org

02033168113

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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£388£306£83n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£528£324£204£61£1,377£1,22245.2324
31/03/21£602£429£173£52£1,173£1,08330.3330
31/03/20£619£600£19£96£1,000£92518.5350
31/03/19£518£583£-66£61£986£94019.330
31/03/18£638£580£58£64£1,052£1,00920.930
31/03/17£455£559£-103£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£567£591£-24£58£1,097£1,02920.920
31/03/15*£581£567£14£57£1,121£99521.110
31/03/14£594£510£83£57£1,107£92321.720
31/03/13£682£580£102£72£1,063£79816.520
31/03/12£946£583£363£68£962£6301310
31/03/11£576£579£-3£72£599£337710
31/03/10£311£368£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£552£348£204£29£659£47916.510
31/03/08£711£413£298£19£456£45213.110
31/03/07£465£463£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£393£515£-122£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£566£480£86£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£400£425£-25£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 26%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 60 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
City Bridge Trust£213,360
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
John Lyon's Charity£30,000
The Grocers' Charity£200
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 09/10/2020
Making sure children who stammer are not left behind.
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Action for Stammering Children
£30,000 19/06/2020
12
COVID-19: LCR Wave 2 - Continuation Therapy
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Action for Stammering Children (ASC)
£213,360 21/05/2020
60
£213,360 over five years (5 x £42,672) towards the costs of providing specialist consultations; group intensive courses; and top-up support for young Londoners who stammer, with a contribution to ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Action for Stammering Children
£200 25/10/2019
Providing innovative projects and programmes for disabled people
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Action for Stammering Children
£11,279 19/11/2018
Funds will pay for a detailed assessment and therapy plan for children who stammer, their first step to overcoming the setbacks.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Action for Stammering Children
£20,300 05/04/2018
Stamback in Time
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Action for Stammering Children
£67,803 14/06/2017
36
To deliver annual residential trips for children and young people across the UK who stammer. They will gain confidence when communicating, gain a peer support network and develop the ability to deal ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Action for Stammering Children (ASC)
£60,000 12/03/2015
24
£60,000 over a further two years (2 x £30,000) for the costs of providing specialist consultations to young Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Specialist Support For Stammering Children
£385,200 17/01/2013
36
This is a continuation of an existing project, based in London, serving clients across England, which aims to provide specialist help to children and young people who have a chronic and often acute ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Secure and rebuild the therapist base
£10,000 20/03/2007
Towards securing and rebuilding their therapist base and continue to provide therapy for children and young people in Nurseries, Primary schools and continue research work into the causes and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 23-71
  • ANYA PAUL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Digital Advertising Leadership
  • ARCHNA RAHULAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Specialised Services
  • JULIET LEACH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Associate Director Of Communications, Techuk
  • VICKY SLONIMS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Consultant Speech And Language Therapist
  • ZAIN GHANI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Public Partnership Group Huddersfield University
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/1989, number: 801171
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/12/1988, number: 02328627
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR15: 34 days late, AR06: 3 days late, AR04: 2 days late,
Main office

The Michael Palin Centre
13-15 Pine Street
LONDON
EC1R 0JG

Objectives

(I) TO RELIEVE CHILDREN WHO SUFFER FROM STAMMERING AND (II) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE MEANS BY WHICH STAMMERING MAY BE PREVENTED AND TREATED AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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