CARRS LANE COUNSELLING CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1102628 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Carrs Lane Counselling Centre exists to bring about the relief of persons in need, hardship or distress caused by physical or mental ill-health or by social or economic circumstances by establishing and maintaining a voluntary confidential counselling service.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A VOLUNTARY CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELLING SERVICE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE LOCALLY IN THE WEST MIDLANDS.

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £13,923 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds decreasing to £12,093. Per the trustees' report, this level of free reserves is maintained at a level equivalent to three months of expenditure, meeting the charity's stated reserves policy target.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/05/2023, 92 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04894920

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carrs Lane Counselling Centre Ltd (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.

• WILKES, Dawn Catherine'S — director, appointed 12/05/2026on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Kenneth — director, appointed 07/04/2026on trustee list
• BEECH, Michael David — director, appointed 08/01/2026on trustee list
• MASOUD, Bayan Essam — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
• STOKES, Martin — director, appointed 04/02/2025on trustee list
• CODNER, Chimene — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• COTTINGHAM, Diana Mary — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• CUMMINGS, Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/06/2013on trustee list
• STOKES, Martin — secretary, appointed 22/01/2026

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bayan Essam Masoudchair
• Chimene Codner
• DIANA MARY COTTINGHAM
• Dawn Catherine Wilkes
• ELIZABETH BARBARA CUMMINGS
• Kenneth Walter Hutchinson
• Lena Stephanie Scott
• Martin Stokes
• Michael David Beech

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CRANE QUALITY COUNSELLING income £187k
• COMMUNITY COUNSELLING income £48k
• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• HIGHGATE COUNSELLING CENTRE income £342k
• HARMAN HOUSE COUNSELLING CENTRE income £33k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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