BEACON BOLTON COUNSELLING SERVICE

Registered charity 1181596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEACON, BOLTON COUNSELLING SERVICE

Beacon Bolton Counselling Service, established in 1990, provides therapeutic counselling toanyone over the age of 16 years, irrespective of race, religion, gender or sexuality.

Objects

1) TO HELP RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AMONG ALL INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH WEST AREA OF ENGLAND AND IN PARTICULAR ENSURE EQUALITY OF ACCESS TO PERSONS IN NEED OF HELP AND GUIDANCE AND FOR THIS PURPOSE BUT NOT OTHERWISE TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP A COUNSELLING AND INFORMATION SERVICE.2) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR COUNSELLORS WORKING IN EITHER PROFESSIONAL OR VOLUNTARY SETTINGS, WHETHER FULL OR PART TIME, WITH A VIEW TO RAISING THE STANDARDS OF COUNSELLING FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE RECIPIENTS 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: Bolton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 23/03/2023, 51 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE GILL
• Louisa Jane Smith
• Pamela Ann Duxbury BEM
• William Darroch · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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