Empowering Communities

Analysis

Empowering Communities is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2022, Empowering Communities reported income of £91k and spending of £99k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2022, income fell from £92k to £91k (-1.3%), an average of -1.3% a year. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empowering Communities sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chichester City Centre Drop-In (£91k), Good Shepherd Church (£91k) and The Romanian Orthodox Parish of St John the Baptist and St Alban (£91k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity as in double default: it has missed the deadline for its annual return or accounts in two or more successive years.