LET'S TALK RELATIONSHIPS

Registered charity 1013811 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RELATE BRADFORD, RELATE BRADFORD & LEEDS LTD

We offer a range of therapeutic counselling, which includes :- Relationship counselling and PST services to adult couples and individuals- Family, children and young peoples counselling- Life skills courses- IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression - Counselling service for carers - Reaching with Relate (working in schools)- Northern Powergrid training

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£449k

Latest spending

£560k

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £110,736 for the 17-month period, reducing its total reserves to £156,737. The trustees note that at the point of closure, these reserves represented just under five months of expenditure, which is below their stated policy target of six months. The charity merged with TLC: Talk, Listen, Change on 1 September 2025 and is being wound up on a solvent basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £157k; policy: six months of total annual expenditure)

“At the point of closure, our total reserves represented just under five months.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“The current period has been prepared on a going concern basis, with the assets and business to be transferred to TLC as a going concern.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Register events

Transferred assets to another charity (08/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Catherine Jowittchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Michelle Hill · trustee of 4 other charities
Sabreen Ahsan

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Leeds City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£449k	£560k
31/03/2024	£397k	£407k
31/03/2023	£409k	£397k
31/03/2022	£374k	£358k
31/03/2021	£343k	£358k

Common questions

Is LET'S TALK RELATIONSHIPS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £110,736 for the 17-month period, reducing its total reserves to £156,737. The trustees note that at the point of closure, these reserves represented just under five months of expenditure, which is below their stated policy target of six months. The charity merged with TLC: Talk, Listen, Change on 1 September 2025 and is being wound up on a solvent basis. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/02/2015	£10k	Relate Switched On
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/03/2005	£5k	There is no project name available for this record