NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1076244 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Counselling Partnership

To provide an affordable, high quality counselling service for adults in Surrey who are facing mental health challenges. The service offers independent counselling and receives referrals from community health teams and GP surgeries as well as self-referrals.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF A CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELLING SERVICE.

Area of benefit: SURREY

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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Latest income

£176k

Latest spending

£208k

Registered

1999

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £29,398 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased overheads and reduced grant availability. Despite this financial pressure, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: maintained at a level to ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they will be able to continue the charity’s current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised (held: £32k)

“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level to ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they will be able to continue the charity’s current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Counselling Partnership (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Teresa Jeannette Collinschair
Chandra McGowan
David Harding
Katherine Mary Lewis
Margaret Hicks
Mary Davies
SUZANNE DOERR

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£176k	£208k
31/03/2024	£175k	£178k
31/03/2023	£136k	£126k
31/03/2022	£99k	£95k
31/03/2021	£130k	£124k

Common questions

Is NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £29,398 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased overheads and reduced grant availability. Despite this financial pressure, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP as a grant recipient include WALTON ON THAMES CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
WALTON ON THAMES CHARITY	FY2025	£10k	Staffing costs

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	21/08/2025	£20k	Stronger Together: Growing Mental Health Support for Our Community
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/05/2005	£74k	There is no project name available for this record

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
DESIGN COUNCIL	1	£50k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION.

SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION income £695k
SUNDERLAND COUNSELLING SERVICE income £6.6m
SOUTHSIDE REHABILITATION LIMITED income £374k
NORTH SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £932k
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £142k
OUTREACH COMMUNITY AND RESIDENTIAL SERVICES income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP	£176k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION FY2025	£695k	more than £60,000	1	above	—	no doubt
SUNDERLAND COUNSELLING SERVICE FY2025	£6.6m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
SOUTHSIDE REHABILITATION LIMITED FY2025	£374k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NORTH SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE FY2025	£932k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Charity FY2025	£142k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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