The Family & Relationship Centre

Registered charity 1057291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RELATE, RELATE HAVERING AND BARKING MARRIAGE GUIDANCE, RELATE NORTH EAST LONDON

Relationship counselling, Youth counselling, Family counselling, GP counselling, Homeless Counselling, Sex Therapy,Sex Addiction, Family Mediation, All Issues Mediation, all types of communication training including bespoke courses for organisations

Objects

(A0 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS; AND WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ENRICHING FAMILY LIFE (B) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF MARRIED LIFE AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS (C) TO SAFEGUARD AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN AND TO PREVENT POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAK-UP OF THE MARRIAGE

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGHS OF HAVERING, AND BARKING AND DAGENHAM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased activities and transferred its operations, assets, and liabilities to another charity following the year end. The independent examiner confirmed that no other matters required attention for a proper understanding of the accounts.

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 3 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara SHUTTLEWORTH · trustee of 5 other charities
• Ged Drugan · trustee of 3 other charities
• Grant Lowe · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · City Of London · Enfield · Essex · Hackney · Haringey · Havering · Newham · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Relationships Counselling, Therapy and Mediation Service.

• The Relationships Counselling, Therapy and Mediation Service income £1.1m
• Relationship Therapy North income £376k
• Relationship and Family Therapy (RAFT) Ltd income £194k
• Surrey Counselling and Mediation income £332k
• Relationship Works income £877k
• BRANDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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