Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

WATERLOO COMMUNITY COUNSELLING 

To relieve the mental distress of persons in need in Greater London by providing counselling, information and advice.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£494£456£38n/an/an/an/an/a69
31/03/22£434£458£-24n/an/an/an/an/a82
31/03/21£501£415£86£16£144£1143.3878
31/03/20£385£389£-4n/an/an/an/an/a82
31/03/19£431£492£-61n/an/an/an/an/a78
31/03/18£432£453£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£459£455£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£403£451£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£446£418£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£414£324£89£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£293£280£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£249£235£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£263£266£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£253£250£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£235£210£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£287£287£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£294£312£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£262£270£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£245£244£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£260£238£22£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

www.waterloocc.co.uk

info@waterloocc.co.uk

02079283462

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£442,460
Henry Smith Charity£285,000
City Bridge Trust£102,275
DCMS£21,000
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£180,000 06/12/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a 'Multi-Ethnic Counselling Service' providing individual mother-tongue counselling for refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Cost of Living Crisis: Employee Resilience Project
£9,900 14/10/2022
The funding will be used to deliver free weekly clinical supervision sessions for 12 months for bilingual qualified counsellors. The counsellors are from ethnic minority backgrounds (many of which ....more
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£2,775 22/04/2022
Covid response
National Lottery Community Fund - Vital Mental Health Support for Vulnerable Londoners
£423,560 18/03/2022
The project is using funding to support beneficiaries with a multi-ethnic mental health service working in 34 languages providing both individual and group counselling and social support. The aim is ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Employee Resilience Project
£9,000 04/06/2021
The funding will be used to provide clinical supervision to counsellors. The project aims to provide counsellors with professional supervision so that they are better able to support clients that ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Waterloo Community Counselling - 04/03/21
£1,250 17/03/2021
Core Funding
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£9,775 08/12/2020
0
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£21,000 22/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
CAF - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£5,000 20/05/2020
3
Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling to support the organisation through COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£2,500 12/05/2020
A grant of £2,500 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - Community Counselling
£2,500 28/04/2020
12
Waterloo Community Counselling provide counselling and mental health support for over 800 of London's most disadvantaged residents per year. Based in Waterloo, the organisation supports a high number ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£10,000 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £10,000, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£105,000 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing a mother-tongue counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers in South London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£80,000 25/07/2019
£80,000 for two further and final years (2 x £40,000) comprising £20,000 p/a towards the Project Manager and Administrators' salaries, £12,000 p/a towards sessional Counsellors' fees and a ....more
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Mental health specialist service for refugee and asylum seekers
£30,000 03/06/2019
24
Towards the specialist service for refugee and asylum seekers with complex mental health needs.
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Mental health specialist service for refugee and asylum seekers
£30,000 03/06/2019
Towards the specialist service for refugee and asylum seekers with complex mental health needs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Multi-Ethnic Counselling Service (MECS) North West
£257,142 24/08/2016
36
Individual counselling, group support and case work services for refuges and asylum seekers who are survivors of war, persecution and inter-communal conflict will be expanded across London. The ....more
London Catalyst - Waterloo Community Counselling - 2
£3,000 27/01/2016
Support for a specialist counselling and support service for asylum seekers and refugees in Brent and north west London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£102,000 26/11/2015
36
£102,000 over three years (£33,000; £34,000; £35,000) for the costs of Waterloo Community Counselling’s Project Manager and freelance fees for counsellors working with refugees and asylum ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Waterloo Community Counselling
£95,900 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing a mother-tongue counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers in south London
National Lottery Community Fund - The Mapesbury Clinic for people in Exile
£83,552 16/01/2015
17
Not Available
AB Charitable Trust - Mother-tongue counselling and support for refugees
£7,500 21/01/2014
£7,500 towards core costs
London Catalyst - Waterloo Community Counselling - 1
£8,000 20/03/2013
Pilot counselling service working with advice agencies and GPs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 37-73
  • CHRIS WONG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • EMMA NICHOLLS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Inclusion And Diversity Director
  • HAZEL FLYNN (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired Senior Manager
  • JOHN DAVIS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Psychotherapist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/1995, number: 1045444
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/1995, number: 03034938
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

BARLEY MOW CLINIC
FRAZIER STREET
LONDON
SE1 7BD

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF ILLNESS OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK AND THEIR ENVIRONS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SUPPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK AND THEIR ENVIRONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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