OPTIONS WELLBEING TRUST

Registered charity 1100782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOLENT ADDICTIONS TRUST LIMITED

ADVICE INFORMATION & COUNSELLING FOR A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES INCLUDING CONCERNED 'OTHER'S ' SPECIALISING IN ADDICTIONS particularly Alcohol and Gambling. Counselling for anyone suffering from Psychological and Emotional distress; employment and relationship problems etc etc . Training & Development for individuals and organisations

Objects

PRIMARILY IN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE:I) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT MENTAL HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE TO ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS,EMPLOYMENT OR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS AND PARTICULARLY PROBLEMS RELATING TO ADDICTIONS;II) TO PROMOTE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL GOOD HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, EDUCATION AND A COUNSELLING SERVICE FOR BOTH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES;III) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN COUNSELLING; AND,IV) TO CONDUCT STUDY AND RESEARCH IN TO METHODS OF COUNSELLING AND IN PARTICULAR COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT) AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY IN THE COUNTY OF 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 recorded a deficit of £314,997 for the 18-month period ended 31 March 2026, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £663,116 from £978,113. The trustees have disclosed a plan to make the charity dormant in 2026, which the auditor notes as a factor requiring consideration of going concern, though no material uncertainty was identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Brownlee LLP. Discloses 4 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Options Wellbeing Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Lodge · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nazira Sherali Hussein Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver phillips · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Milton Keynes · Oxfordshire · Southampton City · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEACON COUNSELLING TRUST.

• BEACON COUNSELLING TRUST income £5.2m
• BEACON SOUTH YORKSHIRE LTD income £185k
• Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind LTD income £2.9m
• ADVANCE BRIGHTER FUTURES income £396k
• NETWORK OF WELLBEING income £209k
• THE WELLAND TRUST income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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