THE SEVERNSIDE INITIATIVE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY

Registered charity 1079390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEVERNSIDE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY, SIP

To provide or assist in the provision of psychotherapeutic treatment and related services to members of the public. Our main activities are the provision of psychotherapy training and acting as a professional membership association for psychotherapists.

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT AND RELATED SERVICES SERVICES TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN NEED THEREOF

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BRISTOL, SOMERSET, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE, DEVON, WILTSHIRE, DORSET, OXFORDSHIRE AND S. WALES

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £78,529, meeting the trustees' policy target of holding reserves amounting to at least 40% of the previous year’s expenditure. The trustees consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis, noting that financial performance was better than expected and that the charity will continue for at least 12 months.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £600k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Elizabeth Lee
• Ella May Tomlin-Rusbridge
• Stephen John Poland
• Ulrike Annemarie Roloff-Standring

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH AND RELATED PUBLIC SERVICES,IN THE E.C. AND E.F.T.A. COUNTRIES.

• THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH AND RELATED PUBLIC SERVICES,IN THE E.C. AND E.F.T.A. COUNTRIES income £101k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
• THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATING THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS) income £2.1m
• THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m
• CLEARING HOUSE FOR POSTGRADUATE COURSES IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY income £278k
• INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOSEXUAL MEDICINE income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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