COUNSELLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE LIMITED

Registered charity 1160047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNSELLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, CSC

Provision of free and low cost counselling in South West England (Cornwall and Devon). We also provide counselling for activists across the UK.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SICKNESS OF PEOPLE SUFFERING TRAUMA AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AS A RESULT OF CAMPAIGN, CARE AND RELIEF WORK BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £27,947, which is within its stated policy target of £15,000 to £30,000. Although the charity reported a net deficit for the year due to a restricted funding shortfall, its overall financial position is described as strong by the trustees.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08248228

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.

• HARMER, Alison — director, appointed 19/06/2020on trustee list
• NORRIS, Lucy — director, appointed 06/07/2015on trustee list
• SHELDON-HOWKINS, Bethany — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Harmer
• Bethany Sheldon-Howkins
• Lucy Norris

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon

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 COMMUNITY COUNSELLING.

• COMMUNITY COUNSELLING income £48k
• ACT FOR CHANGE income £215k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING income £101k
• COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR CHANGE income £211k
• COUNSELLING FOR HEALTH income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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