Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

WINCHESTER YOUTH COUNSELLING

Winchester Youth Counselling (WYC) provides counselling and other therapeutic activities to young people aged 11-25 experiencing mental health issues in the District of Winchester.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£331£370£-39
31/03/22£275£251£24
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

www.winchesteryouthcounselling.org

admin@winchesteryouthcounselling.org

01962820444

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
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
  • Hampshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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 Blagrave Trust£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund£8,516
Herefordshire Community Foundation£3,680
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - Regional Partnership Grants
£50,000 31/12/2023
Youth leadership in counselling
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Outdoor Therapy programme
£3,680 23/05/2023
Grant to Winchester Youth Counselling
National Lottery Community Fund - WYC Young Leaders Project
£8,516 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to recruit a team of 30 young volunteers (aged 11-25) to transform the digital communications at Winchester Youth Counselling. The project aims to empower young people to ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Winchester Youth Counselling - 27/07/22
£2,500 18/08/2022
Core Funding

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

  • ANDREW ROBIN NEWBERRY Appointed: 2024
  • DEBORAH JANE LOCKETT Appointed: 2022
  • KIRSTEEN BRODIE LEITH HOOK Appointed: 2024
  • MICHAEL DAVID MANDER Appointed: 2024
  • NATASHA LOUISE MONTAGU Appointed: 2022
  • SUSANNAH CLAIRE WEBBER Appointed: 2024
  • THURSTEN CLEMENTS Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/07/2021, number: 1195260
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
  • 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
2 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WINCHESTER YOUTH COUNSELLING on 07/02/2023
Main office

Second Floor
East Wing
The Winchester Centre
68 St. Georges Street
WINCHESTER
Hampshir

Objectives

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING AMONG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 11 AND 25 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE RESIDENT IN HAMPSHIRE BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS TO YOUNG PEOPLE, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES, AND HELP THEM GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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