BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTIC COUNCIL

Registered charity 1185487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4970639 · Wikipedia

BPC protects the public through maintaining its public register of psychoanalytically informed practitioners who meet its fitness to practice standards.Its mission is to advance the health of the public and create a society that values human relationships and the use of psychoanalytic theories of mind to support emotional wellbeing, good mental health, and effective social policy.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE AND REGULATION OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING, AND THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND OF PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING AND ITS THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,• THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF; AND• ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOANALYTICALLY INFORMED THERAPIES

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £22,453 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £398,098. This reserve level is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining between four and six months of operating costs plus an additional £80,000. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN COLAM
• Angela Greatley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Asim Butt
• Ben Lloyd
• Dr Frances Roper
• Joao Botas
• LEE SMITH
• NIKKY STERNHELL
• Richard Serlin
• Sally Beeken

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
• THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATING THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS) income £2.1m
• BCPC income £659k
• BRITISH PSYCHOTHERAPY FOUNDATION income £2.8m
• GROUP ANALYTIC SOCIETY ,INTERNATIONAL income £138k
• THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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