SOUTH LONDON COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES

Registered charity 1125078 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH LONDON COUNSELLING SERVICES

Organising Drug and Alchohol Awareness Projects for children and young people between ages of 13-25.Offering counselling sessions to clients on various issues like bereavements, loss of job and income, depression, family and relationship issues. Counselling and mentoring young people that have dysfunctional behaviour and children and youth referred from the youth offending team.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND OTHER BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH LONDON BY PROVIDING ADVICE ABOUT EDUCATION, TRAINING AND CAREERS AND/OR SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM;A) PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MISUSE OF OR ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL; ORB) DISTRESS CAUSED BY BEREAVEMENTBY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, INFORMATION AND ADVICE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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

Registered contact address: Lewisham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net movement in funds of £59,544, resulting in total reserves of £93,518. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and accounts prepared in compliance with the Charities Act 1993, with no matters requiring attention to enable a proper understanding of the accounts.

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 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
• 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
• 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

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

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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 31/05/2021 (received 07/04/2022, 7 days after the 31/03/2022 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 06037025

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Brighter Future Project (Funded by TNLCF) This is a 3 year project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. (TNLCF)” (source page)
• London Community Foundations — “Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) project for women A domestic violence and abuse (DVA) project for girls aged 18+ and women funded by the L…” (source page)

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.

• BASSAH, Roberta Abena — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• RAJI, Lasun Tajudeen — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• OYEKAN, Adekinte Kehinde, Dr — director, appointed 20/07/2014on trustee list
• OSUNMAKINDE, Samuel Orobola — secretary, appointed 16/01/2026

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ADEKINTE KEHINDE OYEKANchair
• GERMAIN LABELLA
• LASUN RAJI
• ROBERTA ABENA BASSAH
• Samuel Orobola OSUNMAKINDE

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

Operates in: Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark

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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £654k
• BRANDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £2.1m
• SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING income £101k
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• THE LEICESTER COUNSELLING CENTRE income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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