SENSING FRIENDS

Registered charity 1205207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sensing Friends provides emotional support through therapeutic peer support groups, creative expression groups and one to one counselling support provided by trained, experienced counsellors, ecotherapists, creative youth practitioners and social workers, to any young person aged 8 - 25 experiencing any form of physical or emotional disability or additional needs.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 8 AND 25 RESIDING IN LONDON AND SUSSEX WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF PHYSICAL SENSORY LOSS, NEUROLOGICAL DIVERGENCE, TRAUMA, PTSD AND ANXIETY, RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING, THERAPY AND GROUP ACTIVITIES IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THEM AND ENABLE THEM TO BUILD CONFIDENCE, INCREASE SELF ESTEEM AND DEVELOP SOCIAL AND LIFE SKILLS WHICH HELP TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES AND MAXIMISE THEIR POTENTIAL.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Sensing Friends held unrestricted reserves of £282 at the end of the financial year, having used its entire brought-forward unrestricted fund of £2,988 on unrestricted spend. The charity received £99,905 in restricted income, primarily from the Big Lottery Fund, and reported a net movement in funds of £5,727 for the year.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tara Marie Duttonchair
• MOIRA VINCENT
• Peter Bowley
• SOPHIE STAPLETON

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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