NEED TO TALK

Registered charity 1177595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRECISA DE FALAR

Need to Talk is counselling and wellbeing services, run by qualified counsellors, we provide 1-2-1 counselling services, emotional support groups, workshops and placement to volunteer counsellors finishing their studies. We welcome everyone we offer a non-judgemental, understanding and safe place where people can explore and address their emotional needs. Our work focus on the wellbeing of all.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND WORKSHOPS IN NUTRITION AND HEALTHY EATING.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £10,928 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £10,948. This level is explicitly described as being less than the trustees' reserves policy expectations, which target four months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees acknowledge the challenging funding environment and aim to align reserves with policy by the end of the next financial year.

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
• 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
• 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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• We need to talk about trust – and how to rebuild it civilserviceworld.com · 06/08/2026
• Hospice says we need to talk about death romfordrecorder.co.uk · 07/05/2026
• We need to talk about psychosis happiful.com · 15/02/2023

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SACHA PEARSALLchair
• Maulidi Ali
• NOREEN FOX

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

Operates in: Harrow

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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