FOCUS COUNSELLING (UK) LTD

Registered charity 1108331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOCUS COUNSELLING, FOCUS COUNSELLING LIMITED

Focus Counselling is able to deliver a professional counselling service provided by qualified and skilled counsellors. It is able to offer support to adults and children suffering from depression, eating disorders, abuse, relationship problems, bereavement and a wide range of life crises.It is our aim to alleviate despair and suffering without religious, sexual or racial prejudice.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE IN BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

Area of benefit: BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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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Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ends the financial year in a financially strong position with healthy cash balances and a robust balance sheet. Per the trustees' report, the charity's unrestricted free reserves of £116,111 are in excess of the stated target of £75,000, providing resilience against funding fluctuations. The charity remains dependent on charitable income to subsidise counselling fees, with approximately 71% of community clients requiring financial support.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 risk management 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04870759

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Focus Counselling (Bath, Frome and Wells) (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.

• EVERITT, Christine — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• DEWEY, Suzanne — director, appointed 08/08/2024on trustee list
• STAFFORD, Andrew John — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
• HEALE, Simon John Newton — director, appointed 02/04/2020on trustee list
• WHITCROFT, Elizabeth Sandra — director, appointed 30/08/2017on trustee list
• ASHWORTH, Christine Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 15/04/2026

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Staffordchair
• Christine Everitt
• Elizabeth Sandra Whitcroft
• Lucia Chadwick
• Simon John Newton Heale
• Suzanne Dewey

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ADVOCACY FOCUS.

• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• BEACON COUNSELLING TRUST income £5.2m
• MERSEY COUNSELLING AND THERAPY CENTRE income £250k
• TUNBRIDGE WELLS COUNSELLING CENTRE income £353k
• CONNECT COUNSELLING SERVICE income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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