BEACON COUNSELLING TRUST

Registered charity 1140011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of counselling and support to relieve mental, emotional and physical problems encountered by people living in today's society.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE, TO RELIEVE MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL SICKNESSOF PERSONS RESIDENT, IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.3.2 THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST IN PROMOTING THE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,866,286, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of between £3,000,000 and £600,000 (noted as a likely typo for £6,000,000 in the source text). The trustees report that the charity has a reasonable expectation of continuing operations for the foreseeable future, supported by an independent auditor's confirmation of no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Monetta 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
• 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
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — PAUL'S PLACE - BCT (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Darren Melia — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Neil Platt — Clinical Director (source)
• Sandra Keatley — Business Development and Performance Lead (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Darren Meliachair
• AGNES WILLIAMS
• James Hind
• Joseph Williams

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Isle Of Anglesey · Knowsley · Lancashire · Liverpool City · Salford City · Sefton · Wigan · Wirral

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 BEACON RECOVERY.

• BEACON RECOVERY income £572k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
• THE ARTS OF CHANGE TRUST income £310k
• THE BEACON CHURCH income £77k
• NETWORK COUNSELLING AND TRAINING LIMITED income £395k

Side by side with its peers

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