Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking

Analysis

Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, 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 April 2025, Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking reported income of £55k and spending of £75k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £56k to £55k (-1.7%), an average of -0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Woodley Pilot Light Trust (£55k), Bethel Ministries UK (£55k) and Liverpool Marine Engineers' and Naval Architects' Guild (£55k).