Cogwheel Counselling

Registered charity 1157141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE COGWHEEL TRUST CIO

The Cogwheel Trust endeavours to carry out its mission by: Providing a range of counselling and psychotherapy services, including a substantial proportion of subsidised places for those on low income; Improving access to counselling and psychotherapy services (our own and the services of other providers in the region); Promoting emotional and psychological well-being.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE HEALTH AND PREVENT DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND RELATED HELP AND SUPPORT TO THOSE EXPERIENCING EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £54,467, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £56,000. The trustees note that the charity's finances are precarious without free reserves and are working to maintain reserves to be compliant with the required standard. The charity has designated £31,000 of unrestricted funds to a Commitments Fund to help with the anticipated costs of a well-ordered closure should the charity need to cease operations.

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 3 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
• 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
• 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.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Alfred Haines Charitable Trust — “Alfred Haines Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Cole Charitable Trust — “Cole Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Diocese of Ely – Church of England — “Diocese of Ely – Church of England” (source page)
• Sawston Parish Council — “Sawston Parish Council” (source page)
• Redmayne Arnold & Harris — “Redmayne Arnold & Harris” (source page)
• The Barnaby Obey Trust — “The Barnaby Obey Trust” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire Community Foundation — “Cambridgeshire Community Foundation” (source page)
• The Marsh Charitable Trust — “The Marsh Charitable Trust” (source page)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Argentchair
• Caroline Harper Jantuah
• DAVID MICHAEL GELSON FARRER · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr David Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Elisabeth Anne Silver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Elizabeth Julia Proctor · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEREMY WILLIAM BARNETT FCA
• Rev Mark Adrian Burleigh

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

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 COUNSELLING TRUST.

• BEACON COUNSELLING TRUST income £5.2m
• NETWORK COUNSELLING AND TRAINING LIMITED income £395k
• WOOLWELL COMMUNITY RESOURCE TRUST income £415k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• COMMUNICARE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £119k
• COTSWOLD COUNSELLING income £305k

Side by side with its peers

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