SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING

Registered charity 1095554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARLOW PASTORAL FOUNDATION, MPF COUNSELLING

The provision of affordable counselling services by professionally trained and supervised counsellors.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS LIVING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE TO PROMOTE MATURITY AND WHOLENESS OF PERSONALITY THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP OF PSYCHIATRIC, RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES; TO CONDUCT STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SUCH PERSONS THROUGH RELIGION AND PSYCHIATRY, AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH; AND TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN PERSONS IN COUNSELLING SO THAT THEY MAY ASSIST MEDICALLY QUALIFIED CONSULTANTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDERS.

Area of benefit: PERSONS LIVING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £25,425 to £19,176 due to a net expenditure deficit of £6,249 for the year. While charitable income grew to £72,443, total charitable expenditure increased to £106,926, resulting in a financial shortfall. The charity remains solvent with current assets of £31,256 against current liabilities of £12,080.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04491415

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Bucks Counselling (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.

• MEECH, John Macdonald — director, appointed 15/09/2026on trustee list
• HARDING, Mike — director, appointed 12/11/2025not on trustee list
• ROWAN, Pamela Sharon — director, appointed 31/05/2025on trustee list
• SWEENEY, Claire — director, appointed 30/09/2024on trustee list
• WALKINSHAW, Scott — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Sweeney · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Meech
• Michael Harding
• Pamela Rowan
• Scott Walkinshaw

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sudbury & South Suffolk Citizens Advice.

• Sudbury & South Suffolk Citizens Advice income £249k
• NORTH SOMERSET CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• HARMAN HOUSE COUNSELLING CENTRE income £33k
• TONBRIDGE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £136k
• ST BARNABAS COUNSELLING CENTRE income £175k
• ST LUKES ADVICE SERVICE income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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