Worthing Counselling Centre

Registered charity 1181141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OFFINGTON COUNSELLING SERVICE

We are a generalist counseling service, open to all, providing support to the community of Worthing.

Objects

COUNSELLING FOR THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL-HEALTH OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A SERVICE FOR THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND PRACTICAL ADVICE

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: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £24,480 for the year ended March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £52,408. The trustees note that while funding bids have become difficult and the charity faces ongoing financial challenges, the new pricing structure and recent project funding have helped stabilize operations. The organization aims to achieve greater financial stability to secure its future service provision.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Margaret Garbuttchair
• Birgit Woolley
• DEBRA SCHNEIDER
• Jacqueline Knight
• Mrs Corinne Samaras
• Rachel Nicola Misra

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION.

• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• WARRINGTON DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £969k
• SOMERSET COUNSELLING CENTRE income £476k
• WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE income £103k
• WANSBECK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £478k
• RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £246k

Side by side with its peers

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