BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPIES

Registered charity 1098704 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BABCP

BABCP is a multi-disciplinary interest group for people involved in the practice and theory of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies (CBT). The objects are to advance CBT by the promotion of scientific research and the application of evidence based practice including assessment, therapy and consultancy, in a wide variety of settings in accordance with the ethical guidelines.

Causes: 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 reported an operating surplus of £259,798 and total unrestricted reserves of £3,061,531, which the trustees confirm is easily above their stated policy target of six months' running costs. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 15.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Louise Lomax
• Colin Michael Blowers
• Craig Bernard Chigwedere
• Dr Fiona Clare Kennedy
• Elizabeth Hughes Owen
• Elizabeth Margaret Gray-Smith
• Greg Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harjinder Kaur-Aujla
• Mark Bryan Smith
• Mohammed Gharbawi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Andrew Elliott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stirling Moorey

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £14.3m
• THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m
• BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTIC COUNCIL income £865k
• BRITISH PSYCHOTHERAPY FOUNDATION income £2.8m
• THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATING THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS) income £2.1m
• 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

Side by side with its peers

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