THE SEA CHANGE TRUST

Registered charity 1181866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our vision is a world where the emotional and psychological needs of children and young people can be met through early interventions in the local community. We will provide young parents/carers and their children or infants, and young adults, with the best psychotherapeutic support whatever their financial means, background or status.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS OR CARERS IN SHROPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS, CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, WHO ARE IN NEED OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES, BY THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST TRAINING IN RELATED SUBJECTS.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£170k

Latest spending

£313k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £142,617 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £216,711 to £74,094. Free reserves stood at £66,854, which the trustees confirmed was within their stated policy range of £40,000 to £80,000. The trustees consider the charity to have a reasonable expectation of continuing to operate for at least the next twelve months, dependent on continued grant applications and fundraising.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of core running costs (reserves figure: £67k)

“The Sea Change Trust has a reserves policy of holding free reserves in the region of £40,000 to £80,000. This is intended to provide around three to six months of core running costs at the charity's current level of activity.” — page 9

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Payment to Sea Change Psychotherapy Limited, a company where Director Therese Bailey-Sayer is key management personnel.

“During the year there has been transactions with Sea Change Psychotherapy Limited, who's Director Therese Bailey-Sayer is currently a key management personnel at The Sea Change Trust. In total £33,065 (2024: £73,487) has been paid to Sea Change Psychotherapy Limited during the period.” — page 23

“During the year £17,175 (2024: £11,095) has been paid to sub-contractor K Turner, who is the spouse of Trustee R Turner.” — page 23

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Payment to K Turner, spouse of Trustee R Turner.

“During the year there has been transactions with Sea Change Psychotherapy Limited, who's Director Therese Bailey-Sayer is currently a key management personnel at The Sea Change Trust. In total £33,065 (2024: £73,487) has been paid to Sea Change Psychotherapy Limited during the period.” — page 23

“During the year £17,175 (2024: £11,095) has been paid to sub-contractor K Turner, who is the spouse of Trustee R Turner.” — page 23

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 2
Government income: £287,500 — contracts £143,750 (1), grants £143,750 (1); 70% of the £412,839 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Government income: £169,661 — grants £169,661 (1); 59% of the £286,156 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sea Change Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Alice O'Connor
Paul Dyson
Paul James Andrews
Richard Turner

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£170k	£313k
31/12/2024	£413k	£363k
31/12/2023	£286k	£142k
31/12/2022	£82k	£79k
31/12/2021	£31k	£74k

Common questions

Is THE SEA CHANGE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £142,617 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £216,711 to £74,094. Free reserves stood at £66,854, which the trustees confirmed was within their stated policy range of £40,000 to £80,000. The trustees consider the charity to have a reasonable expectation of continuing to operate for at least the next twelve months, dependent on continued grant applications and fundraising. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE SEA CHANGE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SEA CHANGE TRUST as a grant recipient include Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire, THE ARNOLD BURTON 1998 CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire	FY2024	£10k	Material Grant Payments
THE ARNOLD BURTON 1998 CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£7k	Social and welfare

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/08/2024	£20k	Sea Change Young People’s Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/04/2023	£299k	Reaching Vulnerable Children
Postcode Lottery	27/07/2022	£25k	Early Years Mental Health Support Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/03/2022	£10k	The Sea Change Early Years’ Service
UK government	29/07/2020	£37k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	1	£373k
GIVE A GIFT	1	£286k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£226k
HOLLYHOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£179k
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£127k
THE RODDICK FOUNDATION	1	£108k
THE DASHLIGHT FOUNDATION	1	£86k
THE MIRIANOG TRUST	1	£70k

Charities like this

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

THE CHANGE PORTFOLIO income £937k
THE ARTS OF CHANGE TRUST income £310k
SEA - CHANGE PROJECTS LTD income £204k
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
SWITCH YOUTH SERVICES income £64k
TRANSGENERATIONAL CHANGE LIMITED income £377k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SEA CHANGE TRUST	£170k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHANGE PORTFOLIO FY2025	£937k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE ARTS OF CHANGE TRUST FY2024	£310k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
SEA - CHANGE PROJECTS LTD FY2025	£204k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE FY2026	£1.9m	more than £60,000	2	within	—	no doubt
SWITCH YOUTH SERVICES FY2025	£64k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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