WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED

Registered charity 1042995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of health primarily by the provision of community based counselling to those in need thereof and by assisting the training of counsellors working for the charity.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY BASED COUNSELLING TO THOSE IN NEED THEREOF AND BY TRAINING AND EDUCATING MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN COUNSELLING AND ALLIED SKILLS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE-NAILSEA, BACKWELL, WOODSPRING DISTRICT, BRISTOL, WANSDYKE DISTRICT, BATH,KINGSWOOD.

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

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£204k

Latest spending

£256k

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing of resources of £52,522 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £246,294 to £193,772. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £179,880, and the trustees confirmed there are no anticipated delays or shortfalls in realizing the charity's cash funds.

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 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.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 40
Government income: £15,475 — contracts £7,200 (1), grants £8,275 (4); 8% of the £203,664 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 40
Government income: £25,415 — contracts £9,100 (1), grants £16,315 (3); 11% of the £230,606 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 40
Government income: £25,994 — contracts £18,906 (2), grants £7,088 (4); 9% of the £300,469 total gross income on the same return

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wellspring Counselling Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

DR MARY FRANCES BACKHOUSE
Isla Hobbs
Morey Alisdair Christopher Andrews · trustee of 2 other charities
Patricia Mary Chisnall
ROB SWIFT
Rachel Dunn
Rev Astrid Tiesema-Samsom · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£204k	£256k
31/12/2024	£231k	£239k
31/12/2023	£300k	£211k
31/12/2022	£198k	£157k
31/12/2021	£180k	£164k

Common questions

Is WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing of resources of £52,522 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £246,294 to £193,772. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £179,880, and the trustees confirmed there are no anticipated delays or shortfalls in realizing the charity's cash funds. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED as a grant recipient include MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH), THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PIERREPONT TRUST, THE TRUEMARK TRUST, THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH)	FY2021	£292k	Large - Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£19k
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£19k
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£18k
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£15k
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£15k
THE PIERREPONT TRUST	FY2023	£10k
THE PIERREPONT TRUST	FY2022	£10k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	Unverified read£5k	Advancement of health and the saving of lives
THE TRUEMARK TRUST	FY2024	£5k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£5k	Advancement of health and the saving of lives
QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2021	£5k	2 grants totalling
THE TRUEMARK TRUST	FY2021	£5k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	Unverified read£5k	Advancement of health and the saving of lives
THE MERCHANT VENTURERS CHARITY	FY2022	£5k	Community and social
THE MERCHANT VENTURERS CHARITY	FY2023	£5k	Unrestricted Fund Grant
THE WALTER GUINNESS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£3k
THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST	FY2023	£3k
THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE WALTER GUINNESS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£3k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BACKWELL	FY2023	£2k	Home Missions & Other Church Societies
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, NAILSEA	FY2025	£2k	Other (Mission Support)
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	FY2024	£2k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	FY2022	£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2023	£2k
THE S M B TRUST	FY2024	£2k
THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST	FY2025	£2k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BACKWELL	FY2022	£1k	Home Missions & Other Church Societies
THE CPF TRUST	FY2024	£1k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2024	£1k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, NAILSEA	FY2024	£860	Charitable Donation
THE BELLASIS TRUST	FY2025	£750
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF PORTISHEAD	FY2025	£500	affordable and professional counselling for young people
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, NAILSEA	FY2022	£500
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF PORTISHEAD	FY2022	£500	Local Partnership Donation
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, NAILSEA	FY2023	£500	Home
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF PORTISHEAD	FY2024	£500	affordable and professional counselling for young people
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, NAILSEA	FY2025	£470
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF PORTISHEAD	FY2023	£111	Local
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2022	amount not stated

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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	27/08/2024	£18k	Volunteer Listeners
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/05/2019	£289k	Wellspring?s Wellbeing Practitioners

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION	2	£3.4m
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON	1	£50k
SIR HALLEY STEWART TRUST	1	£42k
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£38k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUST	1	£25k
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£25k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	1	£18k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY	1	£15k

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
WELLSPRING THERAPY & TRAINING income £372k
WELLSPRINGS TOGETHER income £148k
MAKING MIRACLES income £301k
WILLOWS COUNSELLING SERVICE income £246k
PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED	£204k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION FY2025	£2.1m	£60,000 - £69,999	2	above	—	no doubt
WELLSPRING THERAPY & TRAINING FY2025	£372k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WELLSPRINGS TOGETHER FY2025	£148k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
MAKING MIRACLES FY2025	£301k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WILLOWS COUNSELLING SERVICE FY2025	£246k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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