COUNSELLING FOR HEALTH

Registered charity 1193066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a free short and medium term therapeutic counselling service in cooperation with National health Service General Practices in Plymouth and Devon

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING AMONG PEOPLE AGED 16 AND OVER WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE STONEHOUSE AND DEVONPORT AREAS OF PLYMOUTH, AND SUCH OTHER AREAS OF PLYMOUTH AND DEVON AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE, BY THE PROVISION OF A FREE SHORT AND MEDIUM TERM THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING SERVICE PROVIDED IN COOPERATION WITH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE GENERAL PRACTICES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Hams, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £16,869.56 against total income of £31,256.41, with expenditure of £30,409.76. The trustees report that the charity is in a good financial position to meet its obligations and does not hold any property or investments. The document notes that the charity does not employ any staff and relies on volunteer trustees and independent counsellors.

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 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ralph Timothy Lowndes Bayleychair
• Alan John Plummer
• Anna Louise Dawson
• Judith Mary Bayley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Stanley Sanders
• Susan Mary Flynn

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COTSWOLD COUNSELLING income £305k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
• WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED income £204k
• HARMAN HOUSE COUNSELLING CENTRE income £33k
• CENTRE FOR CHRISTIAN CARE AND COUNSELLING income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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