Finance Score: 6

Governance Score: 7

Support Score: 7

Reasonable growth: +1
Future income +5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 20

TALITHA ARTS

Talitha Arts uses creative arts to provide therapeutic arts workshops that benefit people's mental health and wellbeing, particularly survivors of trauma (including women survivors of trafficking and domestic abuse, refugees, and people living with dementia), enabling people to reach their full potential.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/23	£102	£98	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22	£63	£77	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21	£54	£59	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20	£72	£61	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19	£69	£54	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18	£58	£68	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/17	£71	£62	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/16	£47	£63	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/15	£68	£28	£40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years
(13 years as a company)

www.talitha.org.uk

hello@talitha.org.uk

07984 638360

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Art or music based therapy

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bolivia, India, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Talitha Arts
£77,000	18/04/2024 60	£77,000 over five years (£14,000; £14,700; £15,400; £16,100, £16,800) towards therapeutic arts courses for 92+ dementia patients, additional monthly sessions with participants, and community engagement activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Making Memories' Arts-therapy Workshops.
£6,014	08/04/2022	The group will use the funding to provide a series of art therapy workshops which have been inspired by the Queen’s Jubilee. This will improve levels of mental health and wellbeing.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Talitha Arts
£1,675	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £1,675, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Talitha Arts
£6,700	26/03/2020	£6,700 for the part-time salary of an Artistic Director to deliver therapeutic arts sessions to aid the recovery process for traumatised women.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards art supplies for therapeutic activities for survivors of abuse
£750	23/04/2018	Trustees approved a grant of £750 for art supplies for therapeutic activities for survivors of abuse.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-72

ALASTAIR MCIVER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Writer

AMELIA SOMMERS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Doula (Birth Companion)

DAPHNE SHEILA CLIFTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant

HAYLEY ARGLES-GRANT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Priest

RICHARD ROWLAND SYMMONDS LEAF Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Writer

REBECCA CARDINALI MONDADORI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director

SIMON LEE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Management Accountant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/2015, number: 1162475
Registered at Companies House on 21/12/2010, number: 07474726

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

9 returns made; all on time

Main office

4 Victoria Gardens
147 Turners Hill
Cheshunt
WALTHAM CROSS
Hertfordshire
EN8 9BH

Objectives

1 THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND TO ADVANCE HEALTH (PARTICULARLY MENTAL HEALTH) BY USING THE CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS TO RESTORE HOPE AND DIGNITY; AND2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS.

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