Let's Talk Well
Registered charity 1045429 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TEENS IN CRISIS, TIC
Let's Talk Well provides free, confidential counselling & emotional wellbeing support for children & young people aged 9 - 25, helping them build resilience and improve their mental health& life outcomes. We strengthen the future counselling workforce through our accredited training programme, supporting students from the start of their training through to becoming fully qualified counsellors.
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 closed the year with a surplus of £79,125 and total unrestricted reserves of £751,436. This reserve level is within the trustees' stated policy target range of 15% to 25% of annual income. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing strong commissioned service income and healthy reserves despite rising costs.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“One employee received benefits (excluding employer's national insurance contributions and employer pension costs) of between £60,000 and £70,000” — page 54
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: 15% to 25% of annual income (held: £751k)
“the Trustees have set a target to hold reserves within a range of 15% to 25% of the Charity’s annual income”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Let's Talk Well (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Charlotte Hitchings — Chair of Trustees (source)
- Caroline Edie-Treloar — Vice Chair (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£67k
Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Charlotte Hitchingschair
- Caroline Edie-Treloar
- Hannah Coppard
- Joanna Mary Newton · trustee of 1 other charity
- John Mark Dorrington
- Katie Endacott
- Nicola Moore
- Nigel Gabb
- THOKOZANI OWINO
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Gloucestershire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Let's Talk Well financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a surplus of £79,125 and total unrestricted reserves of £751,436. This reserve level is within the trustees' stated policy target range of 15% to 25% of annual income. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing strong commissioned service income and healthy reserves despite rising costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Burton Sweet Limited.
What does the highest-paid employee of Let's Talk Well earn?
Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band.
Who funds Let's Talk Well?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Let's Talk Well as a grant recipient include NEWBY TRUST LIMITED, SYLVANUS LYSONS CHARITY, HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, GODFIRST CHURCH CHELTENHAM, St James, PCC Bream.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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