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The Listening Centre

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1098571OxfordHealth and saving lives
Income£104k2025-03-31
Spending£74ksame year
Spent / received86%5-year average
Size in its cause64th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2003Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Listening Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Listening Centre reported income of £104k and spending of £74k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £37k to £104k (+178%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Listening Centre sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include People Against Poverty (£104k), Black Minds Matter UK (£104k) and St Paul's Boxing Academy Charitable Incorporated Organisation (£104k).

Income and spending

£0£26k£52k£78k£104k2021 Income: £37,2562021 Spending: £22,49520212022 Income: £40,8592022 Spending: £41,46620222023 Income: £32,9902023 Spending: £41,96520232024 Income: £59,5132024 Spending: £56,39720242025 Income: £103,6862025 Spending: £73,7802025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The Listening Centre provides an affordable counselling service to individuals on limited incomes who live in and around Oxford. Counsellors & Psychotherapists in training support the service on an unpaid basis.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
People Against PovertyWiltshire£104k
Black Minds Matter UKLondon£104k
St Paul's Boxing Academy Charitable Incorporated OrganisationHull£104k
Help4homelessveteransSouth Yorkshire£104k