RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE

Registered charity 1018853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides affordable counselling services.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A COUNSELLING SERVICE FOR THE GIVING OF INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP COUNSELLING.

Area of benefit: HENLEY ON THAMES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net surplus of £30,203 and unrestricted reserves of £77,000, representing a significant improvement in financial resilience. Per the Treasurer’s Report, the organisation maintained a strong cash position of £89,873 despite a reduction in overall income compared to the previous year. The trustees confirmed that the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Riverside Counselling Service (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Patricia McLaughlinchair
• Aki Olver · trustee of 2 other charities
• Aspen Weatherburn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Crawford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Margaret Hewitt
• Dr Fiona Margaret Pharoah
• FIONA LLOYD
• JOHN DAVID MORROW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Allen Williams Gray
• Suzy Hobbs · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• VINE COUNSELLING SERVICES income £105k
• RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £143k
• RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY RESOURCE TRUST income £160k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• BEIS RUCHEL SCHOOL LTD income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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