SAGE COUNSELLING

Registered charity 1088917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAGE, SENIOR AGE COUNSELLING

SAGE Counselling provides a counselling service for adults of all ages, and those with limited mobility, who may be faced with adjusting to retirement, loss of independence, bereavement, loneliness, unresolved conflicts, disability, illness and the finality of death.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN THE WEST SUSSEX AND EAST HAMPSHIRE AREAS, THROUGH THE PROVISION AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE, IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: WEST SUSSEX AND EAST HAMPSHIRE

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 has no investments and holds unrestricted reserves of £24,963 against a stated reserves policy target of £6,000. The trustees report that the organization is financially independent and secure, with no further need for external funding.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Ruth Vertel Vile · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marian Pauline Stapley-Jones
• Mary Harris
• ROBERT HAMBROOK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert John Stebbings · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hampshire · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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