Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

FAMILY COUNSELLING TRUST

Provides information, assistance and guidance for children, young people and families of limited means in Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire to receive counselling, commissioning counsellors on a case by case basis and meeting the costs as far as possible; provides counselling for families on higher incomes while meeting less costs.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 dynamic in terms of composition

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£147£155£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£113£116£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£101£91£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£85£80£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£60£65£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£41£35£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£53£34£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£34£28£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£22£24£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£10£16£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£20£15£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£19£30£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£31£42£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£24£51£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£55£30£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£30£18£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£22£11£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years

www.familycounsellingtrust.org

treasurer@familycounsellingtrust.org

07785333189

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • 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
  • Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Fore£30,000
Wiltshire Community Foundation£22,107
Masonic Trust£15,000
Tedworth Charitable Trust£12,500
Somerset Community Foundation£9,842
Dorset Community Foundation£5,000
DCMS£5,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards core costs.
£10,000 12/10/2023
Towards core costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£2,500 31/03/2023
Towards core costs
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£500 22/02/2023
Family Counselling Trust provides counselling and family therapy to children, young people and families in south Wiltshire. The grant will help with staff costs.
Dorset Community Foundation - Thriving Dorset Families
£5,000 06/02/2023
Counselling service for children and young people, providing wrap around support with parents & wider family
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Somerset Family Counselling Trust
£3,000 11/11/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£15,000 29/06/2022
Family Counselling Trust provides counselling and family therapy to children, young people and families in south Wiltshire. The grant will help with staff costs.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 24/03/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 adapting services to cover increased demand for subsidised counselling
£4,842 28/05/2021
COVID19 adapting services to cover increased demand for subsidised counselling
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£6,607 19/05/2021
10
To provide early psychological therapies to children and their families who are struggling with emotional, behavioural or other mental health challenges.
The Fore - Grant to Family Counselling Trust
£30,000 12/04/2021
36
FCT is a children’s mental health support organisation, working on a very effective early intervention, holistic, family approach. FCT reaches the child before the NHS would pick up an individual case, saving prolonged suffering for the child and ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Subsidised counselling for families on low incomes
£5,000 14/08/2020
5
Grant to Family Counselling Trust Somerset
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 13/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - FCT Wiltshire family counselling
£5,000 24/10/2018
This is a new group who plan to provide subsidised counselling at tier 2 to families who do not meet the threshold for CAHMS, or to support them in the interim whilst they are waiting to access statutory services. The grant requested will support ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£3,541 07/09/2015
18
The Family Counselling Trust (FCT) works to help and support families suffering severe relationship problems with their children, and problems with child mental health. The grant supported the costs of therapists at a subsidised rate to families who ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£4,000 03/08/2015
12
The Family Counselling Trust (FCT) works to help and support families suffering severe relationship problems with their children, and problems with child mental health. The grant supported the costs of therapists at a subsidised rate to families who ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Family Counselling Trust Wiltshire
£6,459 12/05/2015
24
The Family Counselling Trust (FCT) works to help and support families suffering severe relationship problems with their children, and problems with child mental health. The grant supported the costs of therapists at a subsidised rate to families who ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-76
  • COLIN FESTUS ADAMS MBE Appointed: 2021
  • DR ALISON WILHELMINA SANKEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • EMMA JOSEPHINE TREICHL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • PETER BARROWCLIFF Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director
  • ROSEMARY LEIGH SHARP Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor
  • SAMANTHA CLAIRE NOLAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • SUSANNAH WALKER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/01/2006, number: 1112739
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/07/2005, number: 05496551
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
  • Investment
  • 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
17 returns made; AR16: 29 days late, AR08: 40 days late,
Main office

Weston Manor
Corscombe
DORCHESTER
Dorset
DT2 0PB

Objectives

1 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONGST PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR, AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING, THERAPY AND OTHER SUCH SUPPORT SERVICES WHICH ARE DEEMED CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND TREATMENTS AVAILABLE.3. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE TRAINEE PRACTITIONERS ENROLLED ON MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING, THERAPY AND/SUPPORT OR ASSOCIATED COURSE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ASSIST THEM WITH THE COST OF TRAINING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF DORSET

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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