CONFIDE COUNSELLING (WEST SUSSEX)

Registered charity 1197103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONFIDE

Provide counselling for the support of people in West SussexProvide training in counsellingCo-operate with statutory authorities, professional bodies and voluntary organisationCollaborate with any charitable bodies operating within West Sussex that have similar aims and objectives

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING AMONG ADULTS AGED 18 AND OVER IN WEST SUSSEX WHO ARE EXPERIENCING MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL-HEALTH, OR ARE EXPERIENCING NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE BY: A) PROVIDING A COUNSELLING SERVICE TO SUPPORT SUCH PERSONS;B) PROVIDING TRAINING IN COUNSELLING TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE;C) CO-OPERATING AND COLLABORATING WITH STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, PROFESSIONAL BODIES, CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO SUCH PERSONS.

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: Education/training · Disability · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 were prepared on a receipts and payments basis. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records. No material matters were identified that would cause concern regarding the preparation of the accounts.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Richard David Antrobus Morechair
• Janet Aldridge
• MARY ASHWIN
• Margaret Elizabeth Hambrook
• Martin David Troy
• Martin Dominic Joseph Downy
• Rev Alison Iola Green Dr

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

Operates in: Surrey · 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 CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST).

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• SEVENOAKS CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING SERVICE income £130k
• WILLOWS COUNSELLING SERVICE income £246k
• SUFFOLK WEST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £714k
• Relationships Sussex income £385k

Side by side with its peers

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