TERAPIA

Registered charity 1144041 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Terapia exists to provide relief of the mental and emotional distress of children, adolescents, adults, carers and families in need of professional help, through counselling, psychotherapy, training, advice and support and to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to child, adolescent and adult counselling and psychotherapy.

Objects

1.THE RELIEF OF THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OF CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, ADULTS, CARERS AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF PROFESSIONAL HELP THROUGH COUNSELLING, PSYCHOTHERAPY, TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO CHILD, ADOLESCENT AND ADULT COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £18,207 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a net expenditure of £43,767 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, total unrestricted funds stood at £492,773, which is above the stated policy target of three months of average operating costs. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05523517 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Terapia (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bozena Merrick — CEO (source)
• Kiran Rehinsi — Director (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.

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.

• ALBERTO, Richard David — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• SHAH, Dipen — director, appointed 27/10/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dipen Shahchair
• Richard Alberto

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Clear Emotional Trauma and Therapy Specialists.

• Clear Emotional Trauma and Therapy Specialists income £798k
• Relationship Therapy North income £376k
• THE MANOR HOUSE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING income £243k
• ADVENTURE THERAPY income £186k
• SUNDERLAND COUNSELLING SERVICE income £6.6m
• THERA TRUST income £101.3m

Side by side with its peers

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