Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

COUNSELLING TOGETHER

A Christian Counselling Service for the Churches and Communities of the New Forest Area
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£29£27£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£25£27£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21?£32£31£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/20£26£29£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/19£25£29£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/18£26£26£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/17£29£27£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/16£19£18£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/15£18£18£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/14£23£19£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/13*£17£15£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/12*£13£10£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/11£7£7£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/10£6£7£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/09£6£6£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/08£8£7£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/07£6£5£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/06£4£4£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/05£6£3£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

www.counsellingtogether.co.uk

counsellingtogether@gmail.com

07983320450

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Counselling Together
£3,900 06/02/2023
Core costs for counselling service offered to Christchurch residents

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • FRANCES DANIEL Appointed: 2018
  • MARGARET JOYCE BOYCE Appointed: 2022
  • PETER MICHAEL PARSLOW (Chair) Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/03/2005, number: 1108406
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR13: 74 days late, AR12: 110 days late,
Main office

C/o Admin Offices
Christchurch Baptist Church
1A Beaconsfield Road
CHRISTCHURCH
Dorset
BH23 1QT

Objectives

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PERSONS IN NEED OF EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL SUPPORT BY THE PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING FROM A RANGE OF RECOGNIZED APPROACHES AND THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING, BOTH BEING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIANS IN COUNSELLING AND LINKED PROFESSIONS' STATEMENT OF FAITH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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