SORTED COUNSELLING SERVICES

Registered charity 1141928 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sorted provides a free counselling service to children and young people

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST YOUNG PERSONS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 AND 25 YEARS REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, COLOUR, CREED OR DISABLITY IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORDSHIRE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A COUNSELLING ADVICE ADVOCACY AND INFORMATION SERVICE FOR PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: BEDFORDCENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRELUTON

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £140,360 and held unrestricted funds of £83,465. The trustees report that the financial position continues to be carefully monitored, although they identify funding as the greatest challenge and threat to the organization. The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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 — Sorted Counselling Services (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Oliver Randellchair
• Caron Kendall
• Joel Brian Grufferty
• Marie-Charlotte Joseph-Keefe

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

Operates in: Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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

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.

Charities like this

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

• RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £246k
• SORTED CHURCH income £63k
• Citizens Advice SORT Group income £3.3m
• TOR SUPPORT SERVICES income £84k
• SOMERSET COUNSELLING CENTRE income £476k
• VINE COUNSELLING SERVICES income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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