Authors' Awards and Advancement

Analysis

Authors' Awards and Advancement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Authors' Awards and Advancement reported income of £162k and spending of £133k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £109k to £162k (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 325%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Authors' Awards and Advancement sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include People First (Self Advocacy) (£162k), One to One Development Trust (£162k) and Barmoor Hub (£161k).