Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Gov Income
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

CROSSLINE CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING SERVICE (MAIDSTONE) 

Crossline is a counselling service based upon the Christian faith and doctrine. Our objectives and activities are to promote and protect the physical, spiritual and mental health of those who have need by way of a Christian ethos and counselling that includes support for couples and individuals regardless of faith.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received Government grants
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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£74£75£-1n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/22£56£78£-21n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/21£60£65£-5n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/20£74£68£6n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£59£63£-4n/an/an/an/an/a30
05/04/18£68£67£1£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/17£60£55£5£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/16£53£50£3£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/15£54£51£4£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/14£45£49£-4£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/13£56£38£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£39£37£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£39£33£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£27£29£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£29£28£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£28£24£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£22£22£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£18£15£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£14£15£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£15£15£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 32 years

www.crosslinecounselling.org.uk

contact@crosslinecounselling-maidstone.org

01622754447

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 22 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing a more efficient counselling service with IT equipment
£9,796 30/08/2017
12
The organisation will use the funding to purchase IT equipment that will enable them to support service users who seek counselling support for a broad range of issues including relationship problems, ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/02/1992, number: 1008809
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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR05: 157 days late, AR04: 59 days late,
Main office

Maidstone Community Support Centre
39-48 Marsham Street
MAIDSTONE
Kent
ME14 1HH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE IN NEED BY WAY OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT BY ESTABLISHING AND CARRYING ON A COUNSELLING SERVICE BASED UPON CHRISTIAN FAITH AS SET OUT IN THE STATEMENT OF FAITH SHOWN IN THE FIRST SCHEDULE OF THE DEED MADE 24TH NOVEMBER 1991.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MAIDSTONE AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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