Chat Youth Counselling

Analysis

Chat Youth Counselling is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Peterborough. It was registered in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending April 2026, Chat Youth Counselling reported income of £173k and spending of £177k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £189k to £173k (-8.7%), an average of -2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2026, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Chat Youth Counselling sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wanstead House Community Association (£172k), The Gap - Wales (£173k) and Adur Indoor Bowling Club Limited (£172k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.