THE MANOR HOUSE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING

Registered charity 1131804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MHCPC provides or facilitates education and training in psychotherapy and counselling for the relief of persons suffering from emotional disabilities by the provision of an affordable counselling service. It offers a one year part time Certificate Course in Counselling Skills and a three year part time Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy in the Community.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR VOLUNTARY AND PROFESSIONAL WORKERS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING AND B) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM EMOTIONAL DISABILITIES BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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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Latest income

£243k

Latest spending

£245k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,517 for the year, with total income of £243,149 and total expenditure of £244,666. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £129,922 are held, which the charity confirms meets its policy target of six months of core expenditure. The charity acknowledges the need for additional fundraising to support future expansion of its Counselling Referral Service.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of monthly core expenditure (held: £130k)

“The policy of the MHCPC is to hold unrestricted reserves equivalent to six months of monthly core expenditure.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
Investment
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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

Trustees · trustee networks

Deborah Lewis
Gary Hommel
Jennifer Craik
Jonathan Grunwald

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£243k	£245k
30/09/2024	£248k	£229k
30/09/2023	£213k	£222k
30/09/2022	£213k	£207k
30/09/2021	£218k	£200k

Common questions

Is THE MANOR HOUSE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,517 for the year, with total income of £243,149 and total expenditure of £244,666. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £129,922 are held, which the charity confirms meets its policy target of six months of core expenditure. The charity acknowledges the need for additional fundraising to support future expansion of its Counselling Referral Service. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/06/2019	£8k	Counselling Referral Service

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BARNWOOD TRUST	1	£161k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY	1	£15k
THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	1	£2k
THE WILLIE AND MABEL MORRIS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MINSTER CENTRE.

THE MINSTER CENTRE income £2.0m
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £917k
THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m
THE GESTALT CENTRE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE MANOR HOUSE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING	£243k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE MINSTER CENTRE FY2025	£2.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FY2025	£15.3m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£1.9m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNSELLING SERVICE FY2025	£917k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY FY2025	£3.2m	—	—	above	—	no doubt

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