The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation

Analysis

The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in City Road. It was registered in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07867493). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation reported income of £326k and spending of £126k, leaving 61% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1,859 to £326k (+17436%), an average of +264% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 589%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hutts Foundation (£325k), Solomon's Knot Productions Limited (£326k) and Dialogue Society (£325k).