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Registered charity 1075620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BATH CENTRE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING

Psychotherapy & Counselling training

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL ILLNESS BY:(1) EDUCATING, TRAINING, QUALIFYING, SETTING STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR AND SUPPORTING PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND COUNSELLORS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COURSES, CLASSES, SEMINARS WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ON THE SUBJECT OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING AND THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF AN ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS, TRAINEES, PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND COUNSELLORS;(2) PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL ILLNESS; ASSESSING THE NEEDS OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC REQUIRING COUNSELLING OR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MAKING SUCH REFERRALS AS ARE DEEMED APPROPRIATE;(3)UNDERTAKING RESEARCH INTO AND THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL ILLNESS AND THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND STUDY;(4) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER ACTS AND THINGS AS ARE OR MAY BE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE OBJECT OR ANCILLARY THERETO AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BATH AND NORTH-EAST SOMERSET

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 reported a small surplus of £10,233 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following two years of deficits. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £143,618, which is below the stated policy target of three months of annual running costs (£164,446). The trustees confirmed the organisation will continue as an on-going concern with current plans and reserves.

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.

• 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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frankie McGibney
• Jill Shearer
• John Barrett
• Mark Francis Ames
• Martin Lee Gledhill
• Sarah Shatwell

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
• EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
• BRITISH PSYCHOTHERAPY FOUNDATION income £2.8m
• THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £13.4m
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• National Centre For Universities and Business income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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