Registered charity 1127420

Voices from the Nations

What it does

Relief of Poverty Tanzania - Through musical recordings and stories a collaboration with the Gogo people has helped build a water well and community medical dispensary.Homes for Cambodian street children - another collaboration with the Khmer people is in progress, this time using musical recordings and traditional dance videos in order to help towards building a community home and art's centre.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Its charitable purposes

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE INCLUDING BY MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR ESTABLISHMENTS IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MEANS OF THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL MUSIC AND TRADITIONAL STORY TELLING AMONGST ETHNIC PEOPLE GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY; B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: Education and training
Preventing or relieving poverty
Who it helps: The general public
How it works: Other charitable activities

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

Elsewhere

Cambodia
Tanzania
Canada
Sweden
United States

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, Overseas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £1,208 and spent £2,475.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 December 2025	£1,208	£2,475	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2024	£1,384	£3,828	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2023	£1,146	£2,783	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2022	£1,307	£587	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2021	£1,655	£563	Not reported	Not reported

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Financial position

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time: Down 27%, from £1,655 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £1,208 in the year to 31 December 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 205% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

In the Senedd and Welsh Government

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

9 November 2021
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for Climate Change
Purpose: (At COP26) Voices from the Nations: Wales and Scotland in the Climate and Nature Conversation.
(At COP26) Voices from the Nations: Wales and Scotland in the Climate and Nature Conversation
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Trustees

6 trustees run the charity.

Christopher David Mitchell
Linda Caroline MitchellAppointed 1 March 2023
Marie WeeksAppointed 1 March 2023
MARTIN Lewis NEILAppointed 8 January 2009
Rebekah Sarah Neil
Stephen Ernest Weeks

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Filing record

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 December 2025	31 October 2026	Received 2 September 2026, 59 days early	Not required
31 December 2024	31 October 2025	Received 14 August 2025, 78 days early	Not required
31 December 2023	31 October 2024	Received 6 June 2024, 147 days early	Not required
31 December 2022	31 October 2023	Received 14 June 2023, 139 days early	Not required
31 December 2021	31 October 2022	Received 27 June 2022, 126 days early	Not required

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

About this charity

Charity number: 1127420
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 8 January 2009
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 NOVEMBER 2008
Company number: 06752602This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House
Website: www.voicesfromthenations.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Powys

Sources

Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 December 2025

£1,208

£2,475

Not reported

31 December 2024

£1,384

£3,828

Not reported

31 December 2023

£1,146

£2,783

Not reported

31 December 2022

£1,307

£587

Not reported

31 December 2021

£1,655

£563

Not reported

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 December 2025

31 October 2026

Received 2 September 2026, 59 days early

Not required

31 December 2024

31 October 2025

Received 14 August 2025, 78 days early

Not required

31 December 2023

31 October 2024

Received 6 June 2024, 147 days early

Not required

31 December 2022

31 October 2023

Received 14 June 2023, 139 days early

Not required

31 December 2021

31 October 2022

Received 27 June 2022, 126 days early

Not required