TALITHA ARTS

Registered charity 1162475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TALITHA

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

Objects

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.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £2,565 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting from total expenditure of £109,848 against total income of £107,283. Despite this deficit, the charity remains financially secure with unrestricted reserves of £38,537, which exceed the trustees' policy target of £21,160 (three months' expenditure). The trustees confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing sufficient future reserves and income to meet current commitments.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07474726

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Talitha Arts (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HALL, Anne Louise — director, appointed 03/06/2025on trustee list
• DAWSON, Sandra Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/12/2024on trustee list
• CLIFTON, Daphne Sheila — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list
• ARGLES-GRANT, Hayley Noelle — director, appointed 18/01/2021on trustee list
• LEAF, Richard Rowland Symmonds — director, appointed 26/06/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Louise Hall
• DAPHNE SHEILA CLIFTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hayley Argles-Grant
• RICHARD ROWLAND SYMMONDS LEAF

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FELTHAM ARTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• FELTHAM ARTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £186k
• BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR ARTS THERAPIES income £489k
• TERAPIA income £1.7m
• CREATE (ARTS) LIMITED income £1.5m
• TARA ARTS GROUP income £834k
• CORE ARTS income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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