Unique Voice

What Unique Voice does

Unique Voice CIC is a Bristol-based Community Interest Company founded in 2011 that delivers trauma-informed creative arts programmes (drama, storytelling, visual arts, mindfulness, culinary arts) to children and young people, with emphasis on mental health, crime prevention, and safeguarding. Core products include the Mental Health Toolkit (an annual £595 school subscription delivered through the mht.uniquevoice.org online portal and centred on the proprietary 'Adventures on the Inside' therapeutic animation), the WWYD? drama-based crime prevention programme (in partnership with Crimestoppers since 2015, delivered across 63 South West schools), the nationally distributed Safer Together knife-violence resource (co-developed with Avon & Somerset Police), the We Feel Unsafe VAWG resource, creative holiday clubs at two Bristol academy sites, free SEND Stay & Play sessions, and the October 2026 launch of an annual Safeguarding & Wellbeing Conference.

The revenue model blends recurring fee-for-service income (Mental Health Toolkit subscriptions, parent-paid holiday club sessions at £37.50, paid conference delegates), grant and trust income (Department for Education / HAF, Arts Council England, The Nisbet Trust, Quartet Community Foundation), corporate giving (Spire Bristol Hospital, Bristol Water, Arcadis, TLT), commissioned bespoke projects for charities and foundations, and bursary-funded free provision. GTM is hybrid: community-led and event-driven engagement through schools, community groups, and public events for direct delivery, combined with a self-serve online portal for the Mental Health Toolkit. The organisation is co-led by Krystal Keeley and Cat Sparkes-Walsh, supports 21 staff plus a freelance facilitator workforce, and reaches approximately 11,194 young people annually across Bristol and South Gloucestershire, with selected resources distributed nationally.

Name

Unique Voice

Legal name

Unique Voice CIC

Website

https://uniquevoice.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Unique Voice CIC is a Bristol-based Community Interest Company (founded 2011) that delivers trauma-informed creative arts programmes in mental health, crime prevention, and safeguarding to children, young people, schools, and community organisations across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and nationally through digital resources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Creative Arts Education and Social Impact Programmes

NAICS

Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (711510), Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries (51219)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAGALAH

Special Education & Accessibility-Optimized Media (UDL, AAC, Captioning)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Educational Media & Multimedia (Video, Audio, Interactive)

SECONDARYMPAGABAD

Community & Amateur Theatre

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Live Entertainment & Events (Concerts, Theater, Festivals)/Theater, Broadway & Performing Arts

Keywords

• Youth creative arts programmes
• Trauma-informed education
• School PSHE workshops
• Youth crime prevention
• Mental health toolkit

Headquarters

HQ city

Bristol

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Mental Health Toolkit Subscriptions: Annual subscription model for schools providing access to the Mental Health Toolkit online portal with lesson plans, resources, and training materials. Includes 10 user logins per subscription.
2. Holiday Club Fees: Parent-paid holiday clubs offering creative drama-based activities for children. Provides funded bursary places through partnerships with funders. Revenue supports funded programmes.
3. Commissioned Projects: Bespoke creative projects commissioned by organisations for young people. Creates arts-based programmes for charities, foundations, and community groups.
4. Conference Revenue: Delegate fees for the annual Safeguarding & Wellbeing Conference. Conference places subsidised by CPOMS sponsorship, with proceeds funding bursary places at creative holiday clubs.
5. Government & Charitable Funding: Support from Department for Education, Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) Programme, and various charitable foundations for free provision to disadvantaged children.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Unique Voice CIC delivers drama-based, trauma-informed creative arts programmes for children and young people, including the Mental Health Toolkit subscription portal for schools (£595/year), Creative Holiday Clubs, SEND Stay & Play sessions, crime prevention programmes (What Would You Do? and Safer Together), and bespoke commissioned projects for charities and community organisations. Programmes are delivered directly in schools and community settings across Bristol and South Gloucestershire, supplemented by digital resources via an online portal.

Product overview

Unique Voice is a community interest company providing arts-based programmes for children and young people. Their core product is the Mental Health Toolkit, an annual subscription programme delivered via an online portal offering mental health education resources including an original animated film, lesson plans, and parent/carer materials. Beyond this, they operate creative holiday clubs and SEND-inclusive stay and play sessions as direct service programmes. Their educational resources include knife crime prevention programme 'Safer Together', drama-based crime prevention 'What Would You Do?', and violence against women and girls resource 'We Feel Unsafe'. They also host a Safeguarding & Wellbeing Conference for education professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mental Health Toolkit: A subscription-based educational resource for schools providing trauma-informed mental health education through an original animated film 'Adventures on the Inside', lesson plans, presentations, worksheets, mindfulness activities, and parent/carer resources. Annual subscription: £595 for KS1 and KS2.
• What Would You Do? (WWYD?)
• Safer Together

Products and services

• Mental Health Toolkit Annual subscription product for primary schools providing trauma-informed mental health education resources via an online portal. Includes the original animation 'Adventures on the Inside' serving as the central narrative framework, structured lesson plans across six emotional regulation themes, teacher presentation slides, printable worksheets, audio files, mindfulness activities, parent/carer resources, and training videos. Designed for KS1 and KS2 educators including safeguarding leads, PSHE coordinators, and headteachers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 11,194 young people engaged in 2024/25
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Avon & Somerset PolicecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership in Safer Together resource development and knife crime prevention initiatives. Police provide expertise, funding support, and community connections.
• Crimestoppers in the West CountrycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 201510+ year partnership delivering the What Would You Do? crime prevention programme. Partnership has engaged 3,409 young people and 63 schools. Co-developed the Safer Together knife crime prevention resource. Crimestoppers provides funding, strategic direction, and links to police forces.
• Bristol BeaconminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVenue partner for WWYD? 10th anniversary performance at The Lantern Hall.
• Spire Bristol HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorporate giving partnership for winter campaign. Staff donated Secret Santa funds, ran bake sales and raffles, and volunteered at packing sessions. Raised nearly £600 plus significant in-kind support.
• CPOMScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConference partnership for Transformative Approaches to Safeguarding & Wellbeing Conference. CPOMS subsidises delegate places, with proceeds funding bursary holiday club places.
• Cabot Learning FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConference partnership for Transformative Approaches to Safeguarding & Wellbeing Conference. Hosts conference at CLF Institute.
• FearlessminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYouth crime prevention charity. Part of Safer Together Collective supporting knife crime prevention resource.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Geese Theatre Company: Birmingham-based company using interactive theatre for offender rehabilitation and youth crime prevention programmes — closely comparable drama-based methodology applied to safeguarding and crime prevention cohorts.
• 20 Stories High: Liverpool-based theatre company creating work with and for young people from disadvantaged communities — directly comparable model of using theatre/drama to address youth social issues.
• Cardboard Citizens: London-based theatre company working with homeless and excluded young people using drama for social impact — comparable model of using creative performance to engage vulnerable populations.
• Leap Confronting Conflict: UK charity delivering conflict resolution training and youth programmes addressing violence and exploitation — overlapping focus on youth crime prevention and safeguarding through structured interventions.
• Interakt Productions: UK-wide arts and education charity using drama, film and creative projects to address social issues with young people — directly comparable creative arts methodology applied to safeguarding and crime prevention.
• Odd Arts: Manchester-based arts charity using drama and film to address social issues including crime prevention, exploitation, and violence with young people — directly comparable creative-arts-for-social-impact model to Unique Voice.
• Peer Productions: Woking-based youth theatre charity using performing arts to engage disadvantaged young people — comparable drama-led youth engagement model with community focus.

Broad incumbents

• The Prince's Trust: Major UK youth development charity supporting disadvantaged young people across education, employment and wellbeing — broader incumbent in the same youth social impact space with national reach.
• Place2Be: UK-wide charity providing mental health support in schools — a much larger, established player in the same school-based mental health education category as Unique Voice's Mental Health Toolkit.

Emerging players

• Restorative Thinking: UK provider of restorative practice training and resources for schools and youth settings — emerging peer addressing behaviour, conflict, and safeguarding themes overlapping with Safer Together and WWYD?.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/UniqueVoiceCIC
• Facebookfacebook.com/UniqueVoiceCIC
• Instagraminstagram.com/uniquevoice_cic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/unique-voice

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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