HELP COUNSELLING SERVICES CIO

Registered charity 1174668 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELP COUNSELLING SERVICES, W.C.S, WILTSHIRE COUNSELLING SERVICES

HELP Counselling Services provides free or low cost counselling to anyone in West Wiltshire and the surrounding area. Issues such as domestic abuse, family dysfunction, long-term or life-limiting illness, depression, anxiety, relationship breakdown or bereavement and loss.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a modest surplus of £4,720 and total income of £133,519, up from the previous year. Per the Treasurer’s Report, unrestricted reserves stood at £51,980, providing flexibility for future planning despite rising expenditure on staff and supervision.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HELP Counselling Services (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).

• UK Shared Prosperity Fund — “The Charity has received £39,050 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, secured through Wiltshire Council.” (source page)
• Wiltshire Council — “The Charity has received £39,050 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, secured through Wiltshire Council.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Hamp
• Catherine Lynne Gregory
• Gemma Pyke Mason
• Julie Tamlyn
• LINDSAY JANE DRISCOLL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ruth Morgan
• Sally Haddrell Jenks
• Stephen Cooper
• Thomas Edward Aylesbury

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 SUNDERLAND COUNSELLING SERVICE.

• SUNDERLAND COUNSELLING SERVICE income £6.6m
• SEVENOAKS CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING SERVICE income £130k
• OLIVE BRANCH COUNSELLING income £103k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £917k
• SELF HELP SERVICES income £14.2m
• COTSWOLD COUNSELLING income £374k

Side by side with its peers

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