THE VALLEY TRUST

Registered charity 293983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Valley Trust provides counselling services to schools in Surrey and bordering counties, through the work of fully qualified and experienced counsellors and therapists.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AMONGST ADULTS AND CHILDREN WHO SUFFER FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £194,713, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £109,584. The charity reported a net surplus of £19,572 for the year, with total income of £459,156 and total expenditure of £439,584.

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 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shaun Peter Macdonaldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Kirkpatrick MSc
• Anjula Sharma-Smith
• BEN ELGER
• Oluwarotimi Akintade

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

Operates in: Croydon · Hampshire · Hillingdon · Hounslow · Richmond Upon Thames · Slough · Surrey · Sutton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VALLEY LIFE TRUST.

• VALLEY LIFE TRUST income £455k
• THE NENE VALLEY CARE TRUST income £66k
• STORT VALLEY SCHOOLS TRUST income £43k
• TEES VALLEY YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £157k
• VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST income £759k
• THE LINK TEES VALLEY LTD income £361k

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