COUNSELLING PASTORAL TRUST

Registered charity 1027526 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNSELLING AND PRAYER TOWER TRUST, COUNSELLING AND PRAYER TRUST

Counselling and training

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £3,287 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £56,251 and total expenditure of £52,964. The trustees confirm that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The charity is working towards its reserves policy target of £12,500 in free reserves to cover three months of expenditure.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02848495 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• BLYTHE, Alexander Robert — director, appointed 29/09/2024on trustee list
• VASEY, Cathy Mary — director, appointed 24/11/2014on trustee list
• SHORTT, Lissa Gaye — director, appointed 10/06/2003on trustee list
• EXTON, John Michael — secretary, appointed 30/11/2016

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Blythe
• Cathy Vasey
• Dr AGNES SHEILA SULLIVAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• LISSA GAYE SHORTT

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
• PIONEER TRUST income £370k
• BCPC income £659k
• Reach Counselling Limited income £96k
• HAMPTON PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL income £246k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.