Initially established as an unregistered charity in 2019, we became fully registered with the UK Charity Commission in January 2020. We are passionate about seeing hope restored to people who are facing the harshest of life's battles that steal their hope away. It may be recovering from violence and abuse, dealing with long-term mental and physical health challenges, finding a home and being re-established into community or breaking the destructive cycle of isolation and social anxiety. In all of these things, we believe that hope is the seed of change.
Our mission is founded upon the running of choirs, but when the pandemic arrived we had to put those on pause and think about how we could continue serving the local community. Through partnership with Kingston Council and other local charities, an opportunity arose for us to help to feed the isolated and vulnerable of Kingston borough, so we took it and the rest, as they say, is history. You can find out more about how we transformed ourselves on this website, and how you could become part of the story.
Sarah is the founder and CEO of Voices of Hope. She has an MA in Music and Education from Cambridge University and is an Associate of the Royal College of Music. With many years of music teaching and conducting experience, she brings a high level of musical competence and experience to the task of leading VoH. Her innate passion and compassion produce a compelling desire to see people thriving within community, filled with hope, and into their own journey of healing, restoration and empowerment. She loves to see people believing in themselves, growing in confidence and taking steps towards fulfilling their potential. The projects undertaken by VoH under Sarah's leadership express these characteristics powerfully.
Sarah is a 2022 recipient of the British Empire Medal for services to the community in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames during Covid-19.
Behind the scenes VoH has a Board of Trustees and an Executive Team who bring a wide variety of skills and experience, supporting Sarah to fulfil the VoH mission.
Pippa has been with Voices of Hope since April 2020, volunteering at first and then stepping into the role of Volunteer and Office Manager. Along with bringing her extensive experience in the charity sector, she loves a good spreadsheet and sorting out processes. In her spare time she loves to go on walks and charity shop bargain hunting.
Nick is Voices of Hope's incredible Operations & Development Manager, running both the BRITE Box project and The Good Food Co-Op with great skill and passion. These are some of our biggest and rapidly growing projects, reaching lots of local people and encouraging them to cook some fun and healthy meals. Nick came on staff in July 2020 and in his spare time (which isn’t much!), he loves to listen to music and paddleboard, though not at the same time...
Ruth joined us as a volunteer particularly focused on the BRITE Box project, and since Jan 2021 joined us on staff as a Project and Development Manager. Ruth is full of creative ideas and skill, huge amounts of compassion and has an unrivalled knowledge of everything local.
Emma has been a life-line to our rapidly growing work. As Youth Engagement and Finance Manager, Emma has jumped in the deep end to manage financial procedures and has come alongside to run and grow our various youth volunteering offers and projects. She is a published author and loves her mischievous puppy, Bertie and her equally mischievous three boys and husband.
Tracy is our Domestic Violence Support Manager and has an amazing passion to come alongside women who have experienced Domestic Violence. Having walked an incredibly brave and courageous journey herself, we are honoured to have Tracy on staff running a vital Domestic Violence peer mentor service to women in our community. She loves to sing and is a keen Sisterhood Choir member as well as mum to two gorgeous kids.
Heni has come on board in 2022 to be our new Choir and ABC Manager which we're very excited about! She is a super-reliable, hardworking and caring person as well as a passionate musician spanning various genres including classical, jazz and contemporary. She has a BA Diploma in Music and 20 years of experience as a chorister, orchestra conductor and piano teacher.
Rhiannon is Voices of Hope's amazing Creative Arts Coordinator, who has been with us since September 2020. She is heavily involved in Sisterhood Sanctuary, The ABC, and our choir work. In her spare time she spends time with Claudie her cat, who sadly hates music :-(
Steve is our Accountant and absolute gold - requiring great grace, he keeps us all on the straight and narrow path and fully compliant with all things financial. Given the multiple projects that we run and the need to account for different restricted streams of funding, Voices of Hope would not be functioning without him. Steve is a keen singer and Gospel Choir member as well as a wonderful husband and father.
We have a great team of choir tutors who travel all across Kingston, Richmond and Elmbridge to run our choirs in homes and centres as well as ABC on zoom. Currently these tutors have come through our own training (from people who have joined our Sisterhood / Gospel Choirs) and Kingston university postgraduate students.
Andrew Wooldridge
Keath Gaitskell
Margaret & Richard Thompson
Nigel Cooper
Paul Cox
Behind the scenes VoH has a Board of Trustees who support Sarah and her team to fulfil the VoH mission.
Soon Lee (Chair)
Jeevan Mahesan (Treasurer)
Alison Henri (Secretary)
Nicki Watt
Carlene Stanislaus
You can download a copy of key VoH documents here:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF WEBSITE USE
These terms and conditions apply between you, the user of this Website (voh.org.uk), including any sub-domains, unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions, and Voices of Hope, the owner and operator of this website. Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they affect your legal rights. Your agreement to comply with and be bound by these terms is deemed to occur upon your first use of the Website. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions you should stop using the website immediately.
In these terms and conditions, User or Users means any third party that accesses the Website and is not either (i) employed by Voices of Hope and acting in the course of their employment, or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to Voices of Hope and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services.
Intellectual property and acceptable use
1. All Content included on the Website, unless stated as being used under license and/or with permission, is the property of Voices of Hope, our affiliates or other relevant third parties. Content means any text, graphics, images, audio, video, software, data compilations, page layout, underlying code and software and any other form of information capable of being stored in a computer that appears on or forms part of this Website. Nothin on this Website shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, logo or service mark displayed on the Website without the owner’s explicit prior written permission.
2. You must not reproduce, modify, copy, distribute or use for commercial purposes any Content without the owner’s explicit prior written permission.
Prohibited use
3. You may not use the Website:
a. in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or interfere with any other person’s use or enjoyment of the Website
b. in any way that is harmful, unlawful, illegal, abusive, harassing, threatening or otherwise objectionable or in breach of any applicable law, regulation or government order
c. to make, transmit or store electronic copies of Content protected by copyright without the owner’s explicit prior written permission
Availability of the Website and disclaimers
4. Any online facilities, tools, services or information that Voices of Hope makes available through the Website (the Service) is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis. No warranty is given that the Service is or will be free of defects and/or faults. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide no warranties, either express or implied, of fitness for any particular purpose, accuracy of information, compatibility and satisfactory quality. Voices of Hope is under no obligation to update information on the Website.
5. While Voices of Hope uses reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Website is secure and free of errors, viruses and other malware, no warranty or guarantee is given in this regard and we recommend that all Users take responsibility for the security or their own computer(s) and personal data.
6. Voices of Hope accepts no liability for any disruption or non-availability of the Website
7. Voices of Hope reserves the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any part (or the whole of) the Website including, but not limited to, any products and/or services available. These terms and conditions shall continue to apply to any modified version of the Website unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Limitation of liability
8. Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
a. limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from our or your negligence as applicable
b. limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentations
c. limit or exclude any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law
9. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of events beyond our reasonable control.
10. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Voices of Hope accepts no liability for any of the following:
a. business losses such as loss of profits, income, revenue, anticipated savings, business, contracts, goodwill or commercial opportunities.
b. loss or corruption of any data, database or software
c. any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage
General
11. You may not transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these terms and conditions where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.
12. These terms and conditions may be varied by us from time to time. Such revised terms will apply to the Website from the date of publication. Users should check the terms and conditions regularly to ensure familiarity with the then current version.
13. These terms and conditions contain the whole agreement between the parties in relation to use of the Website and they supersede all prior discussions, arrangements or agreements that might have taken place in relation to the terms and conditions of Website use.
14. The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these terms and conditions and no third party will have any right to enforce or rely on any provision of these terms and conditions.
15. If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these terms and conditions (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of these terms and conditions will not be affected.
16. Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver or that, or any other, right or remedy.
17. This Agreement shall be governed by, and interpreted, according to the law of England and Wales. All disputes arising under the Agreement (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction or the English or Welsh courts.
Website management
18. This Website is managed and operated by the Webmaster of Voices of Hope who can be contacted by email at webmaster@voh.org.uk.
PRIVACY POLICY
1. This privacy policy applied between you, the User of this Website and Voices of Hope, the owner and provider of this Website. Voices of Hope takes the privacy of your information seriously. This privacy policy applies to our use of any and all Data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of this Website and any transactions that occur through it. Please read this policy very carefully.
Definitions and interpretation
In this privacy policy the following definitions are used:
Data |
Collectively all the information that you submit to Voices of Hopes via the Website. This definition incorporates, where applicable, the definitions provided in the Data Protection Laws. |
Data Protection Laws |
Any applicable law relating to the processing of personal Data, including but not limited to the Directive 96/46/EC (Data Protection Directive) or the GDPR, and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, for as long as the GDPR is effective in the UK. |
GDPR |
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 |
Voices of Hope |
The owner and operator of the Website voh.org.uk |
we or us |
Voices of Hope |
User or you |
Any third party that accesses the Website and is not either (i) employed by Voices of Hope and acting in the course of their employment or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to Voices of Hope and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services |
Website |
The website that you are currently using, voh.org.uk, and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions |
2. In this privacy policy, unless the context requires a different interpretation:
a. the singular includes the plural and vice-versa
b. references to sub-clauses, clauses, schedules or appendices are to sub-clauses, clauses, schedules or appendices of this privacy policy
c. a reference to a person includes firms, companies, government entities, trusts and partnerships
d. “including” is understood to mean “including without limitation”
e. reference to any statutory provision includes any modification or enhancement of it
f. the headings and sub-headings do not form part of this privacy policy
Scope of this privacy policy
3. This privacy policy applies only to the actions of Voices of Hope and Users with respect to this Website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this Website including, but not limited to, any links we may provide to social media websites.
4. For purposes of the applicable Data Protection Laws, Voices of Hope is the “data controller”. The means that Voices of Hope determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, your Data is processed.
How we collect Data
5. We collect Data in the following ways:
a. data is given to us by you, and
b. data is collected automatically
Data that is given to us by you
6. Voices of Hope will collect your Data in a number of ways, for example when you contact us through the Website, by telephone, post or email, or through any other means; in each case in accordance with this privacy policy.
Data that is collected automatically
7. To the extent that you access the Website, we will collect your Data automatically. For example we automatically collection some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to the Website content and navigation, and includes your IP address, the dates, times and frequency with which you access the Website and the way you use and interact with its Content.
Keeping Data Secure
8. We will use technical and organisational measure to safeguard your Data. For example access to your Data is controlled by a username and password that is unique to you, and we store your Data on secure servers.
9. Technical and organisational measure include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuser loss of unauthorised access to your Data, please let us know immediately by contacting us at webmaster@voh.org.uk.
10. If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and other online problems, visit getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
Data retention
11. Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your Data on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that the Data be deleted.
12. Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.
Your rights
13. You have the following rights in relation to your Data:
a. Right to access - the right to request (i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or (ii) that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reason(s) why.
b. Right to correct - the right to have your Data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete
c. Right to erase - the right to request that we delete or remove your Data from our systems
d. Right to restrict our use of your Data - the right to “block” us from using your Data or limit the way in which we can use it.
e. Right to data portability - the right to request that we move, copy our transfer your Data
f. Right to object - the right to object to our use of your Data including where we use it for our legitimate interests
14. To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out above, or withdraw your consent to the processing of your Data (where consent is the legal basis for processing your Data), please contact us at info@voh.org.uk.
15. If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint you make in relation to your Data is handled by us, you may be able to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection authority. For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO contact details may be found on their website https://ico.org.uk.
16. It is important that the Data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Data changes during the period during which we hold it.
Links to other websites
17. This Website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites. We have no control over such websites and are not responsible for the content of these websites. The privacy policy does not extend to your use of such websites. You are advised to read the privacy policy or statement of other websites prior to using them.
Changes of business ownership and control
General
18. You may not transfer any of your rights under this privacy policy to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these terms and conditions where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.
19. If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this privacy policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this privacy policy will not be affected.
20. Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver or that, or any other, right or remedy.
21. This Agreement shall be governed by, and interpreted, according to the law of England and Wales. All disputes arising under the Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction or the English or Welsh courts.
Changes to this privacy policy
22. Voices of Hope reserves the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be posted on the Website as soon as practicable and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the Website following any such changes.
Website management
23. This Website is managed and operated by the Webmaster of Voices of Hope who can be contacted by email at webmaster@voh.org.uk.
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UK Charity Commission Registration 1187454
161A Clarence Street, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 1QT