RENEW COUNSELLING

Registered charity 1084940 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WHCM, WHCM SYCAMORE COUNSELLING

Renew is established to improve emotional and mental health by providing counselling and psychotherapeutic support.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £161,034 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds falling to a negative balance of £24,253. The trustees note that free reserves are below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure, but confirm the charity remains a going concern supported by expendable endowment assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clemence Hoar Cummings. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04099810

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Renew Counselling and Training (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RASSELL, Joanne — director, appointed 06/12/2021not on trustee list
• STOCKWELL, Sandra — director, appointed 18/10/2021on trustee list
• ARMSBY, Deirdra Mary Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• COOPER, Matthew James — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• PLUNKETT, Emma Louise — director, appointed 01/11/2017on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Ruth Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2011on trustee list
• ROSE, Tim — director, appointed 06/12/2010not on trustee list
• SCHUSTER, Nikkola Klara — secretary, appointed 01/08/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £290k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (72% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy ROSEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deirdra Armsby
• Emma Louise Plunkett
• Jo Rassell
• Matthew James Cooper
• RUTH O'NEILL
• Revd Canon Jane Richards
• Sandra Stockwell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ealing · Essex · Hackney · Newham · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).