Side by Side

Side by Side provides support to all those with long term conditions, disabilities and/or additional needs through the medium of music at weekly choir rehearsals. Our members are made up of people with illnesses, disabilities and/or additional needs, carers, friends and family and everyone seems to enjoy themselves whilst at each rehearsal.

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

In Wales

• Caerphilly

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £25,897 and spent £5,817.

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.

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

Up 45%, from £17,830 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £25,897 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 22% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £6,562, awarded in 2021.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 13 October 2026, Ceredigion

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Democratic Services Committee

  Member ICT Provision post election 2027

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• 8 July 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  NOTICE OF MOTION SUBMITTED BY COUNCILLORS HUGH SHEPARDSON AND JOHN JAMES

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• 29 June 2026, Gwynedd

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Language Committee

  RESULTS OF THE PILOT STUDY ON THE USE OF WELSH IN PUBLIC PLACES THAT PROVIDE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF CYNGOR GWYNEDD

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• 23 February 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

  Corporate Overview

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• 9 December 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Governance & Audit Sub-committee

  THE GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT SUB-COMMITTEE FORWARD WORK PLAN

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• 24 November 2025, Rhondda Cynon Taf

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Governance and Audit Committee

  The Council's Panel Performance Assessment Report

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

• 21 October 2026

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  Diolch yn fawr, Lywydd. Before I start, I just want to say, it's been a sad day today. I stood in Aberfan this morning. I stood side by side with that community, which came together in unity in the face of such adversity. But it's been a terrible, shameful, shameless end to a sad day. A sad day inde…

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• 20 October 2026

  Named by Helen Jenner in the Senedd

  …how cruel life can be. Yet, the Aberfan community also showed us what is possible when people pull together, whatever the odds. Villagers stood side by side with dignity. They supported one another, cared for one another and honoured those they had lost. That sense of togetherness can sometimes feel…

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• 24 June 2026

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …eddfa Cymru and the National Roman Legion Museum are doing in terms of ensuring that the stories of the people that were here in Wales are told side by side with the Romans now. There are so many stories that we still don't tell as well as we could here in Wales, and Plaid Cymru has a clear commitme…

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• 10 June 2026

  Named by Dan Thomas in the Senedd

  …ant to make expensive promises, the public deserve to know how they will be funded and they should be able to compare all the parties' costings side by side. Yet Plaid Cymru were not forthcoming. They were happy to announce the spending, but less enthusiastic about explaining the costings. I explain…

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4 trustees run the charity.

• Michael CharlesChairAppointed 23 August 2022
• Hannah HawkinsAppointed 29 April 2019
• Katherine OrrissAppointed 30 August 2020
• Kathryn GowerAppointed 29 April 2019

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

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

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.

Charity number

1186481

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 November 2019

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 20 Nov 2019

Website

www.raisingourvoice.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Caerphilly

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Caerphilly Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Caerphilly's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Casnewydd Islwyn