SIMEON CENTRE COUNSELLING SERVICE

Registered charity 1098428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Mission: To promote positive mental health by providing a safe and confidential counselling service, free at the point of need.

Objects

TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT EMOTIONAL SUFFERING CAUSED BY METAL AND/OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING AND DEVELOPING A CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELLING SERVICE, TOGETHER WITH EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR COUNSELLING AND TO DEVELOP COUNSELLING RESOURCES AND IN ANY CHARITABLE MANNER WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased operations in December 2025 due to depleted financial reserves, having lost its core NHS funding. The independent examiner's report highlights this cessation of operations as a material matter requiring attention. The charity operated on a receipts and payments basis with unrestricted reserves of £80,266 at year-end, which were subsequently exhausted.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Greenchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emma Lewis
• Jill Orrell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kevin Illingworth
• Neil Mappanaphy
• Robert Bradley
• Robert Hurst

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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