THIS CHARITY HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTER

Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    HOUNSLOW YOUTH COUNSELLING, ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE 

    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£411£387£24n/an/an/an/an/a12
    31/03/22£423£349£74n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/21£370£303£67n/an/an/an/an/a9
    31/03/20£287£298£-11n/an/an/an/an/a6
    31/03/19£300£286£14n/an/an/an/an/a16
    31/03/18£265£287£-22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£328£275£53£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£331£281£50£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£292£247£45£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£237£215£22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£251£204£46£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£190£180£10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£161£181£-20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£144£165£-21£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£150£152£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£113£85£29£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£117£88£29£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£79£87£-9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£93£72£21£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£61£46£15£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 37 years
    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Other specialist outpatient services
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Hounslow,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 12 volunteers

    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
    Greater London Authority£246,500
    BBC Children in Need£86,766
    London Borough of Hounslow£23,690
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Greater London Authority - Hounslow Youth Counselling
    £98,600 20/12/2022
    This uplift is to continue delivering an independent one-to-one counselling provision to young people in HMP/YOI Feltham, to relieve the suffering caused by emotional and psychological distress. We ....more
    London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Hounslow Youth Counselling Service
    £23,690 14/09/2020
    12
    To provide a new telephone and online counselling service to young people aged 13-25. To reduce psychological distress
    Greater London Authority - Hounslow Youth Counselling Service
    £147,900 01/01/2020
    Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hounslow Youth Counselling Service
    £86,766 26/06/2019
    36
    This request will enable increased provision of one to one confidential counselling sessions to vulnerable and at risk young people aged 11-18 years old. Beneficiaries will reduce self-harming ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/04/1987, number: 296333
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • 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
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH, OR BY THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOUR OR CREED, SEX OR CLASS, BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A COUNSELLING SERVICE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW FOR THE GIVING OF INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP INFORMATION AND COUNSELLING.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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