ST BARNABAS COUNSELLING CENTRE

Registered charity 1000797 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offering professional counselling to help those facing emotional problems, in particular those who cannot manage this from their own resources, where those less able to pay are not excluded.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND ILL-HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING SERVICES TO HELP THOSE OVER 18 IN DISTRESS FACING EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS OF ALL KINDS WHERE THOSE LESS ABLE TO PAY ARE NOT EXCLUDED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Norwich, 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 expenditure of £18,984 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £122,337 to £103,353. The trustees' report notes that key challenges remain in securing sustainable funding, although free reserves increased to £87,615. The charity operates a defined contribution pension plan and has no trading subsidiaries.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 02535600

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.

• OGDEN, William Lindsay — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
• THREADKELL, Peter Victor — director, appointed 01/06/2022on trustee list
• ANDERSON BROWN, Gillian — director, appointed 30/03/2022not on trustee list
• JERMYN, Karl — director, appointed 27/09/2021on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Jane — director, appointed 27/09/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Anderson Brown
• Jane Simpson
• Karl Jermyn · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Threadkell
• William Lindsay Ogden

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING.

• SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING income £101k
• ST MARTIN'S CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HEALING income £727k
• MAKING MIRACLES income £301k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• HBBS COUNSELLING income £216k
• SOMERSET COUNSELLING CENTRE income £476k

Side by side with its peers

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