Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 5

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

TUNBRIDGE WELLS COUNSELLING CENTRE

The Counselling Centre offers affordable, accredited brief focused and open ended psychodynamic counselling to individuals. We provided in-house supervision for our volunteer counsellors.The Counselling Centre runs professional training courses at certificate and diploma level as well as a programme of Continuous Professional Development for internal and external counsellors

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Established: 30 years

www.thecounsellingcentre.org.uk

info@thecounsellingcentre.org.uk

01892548750

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/07/22		£302	£287	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	32
31/07/21		£229	£238	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/07/20	*	£250	£213	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	38
31/07/19	*	£234	£218	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/07/18	*	£190	£169	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	38
31/07/17		£169	£178	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/16		£175	£175	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/15		£174	£162	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/14		£171	£172	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/13		£168	£168	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/12		£157	£168	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/11	*	£172	£164	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/10	*	£153	£158	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/09	*	£149	£162	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/08		£163	£152	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/07		£143	£148	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/06		£154	£141	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/05		£138	£136	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/04		£134	£121	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

East Sussex, Kent,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
32 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£15,280
Henry Smith Charity	£5,000
Sussex Community Foundation	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£1,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Counselling Centre
£1,600	21/10/2023	We would like to support families in the local area who are suffering financially by offering subsidised bereavement counselling sessions to children and young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Subsidised Counselling for Children and Young People
£5,280	10/06/2022	The funding will be used to provide bereavement counselling sessions for children and young people. The project aims to support coping strategies and improved mental health and wellbeing.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Tunbridge Wells Counselling Centre
£5,000	10/03/2022 12	towards one year's running costs of the 'Assisted Places Scheme', providing subsidised counselling for adults and young people with mental health issues in Kent.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Tunbridge Wells Counselling Centre
£5,000	17/11/2021 12	Funding was provided to cover 20 sessions of support for 12 clients residing in East Sussex.
National Lottery Community Fund - Assisted Place Scheme
£10,000	22/05/2020 12	The project will use funding to run a counselling service to people who are financially disadvantaged with the aims of supporting people's mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 ....more The project will use funding to run a counselling service to people who are financially disadvantaged with the aims of supporting people's mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Counselling Centre
£7,050	11/04/2018	refurbishment of a counselling centre for a charity which works with disabled people in Kent

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-74

CHARLES HOWE MARSHALL Appointed: 1994, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeships: FRIENDS OF ST DUNSTAN'S PARISH CHURCH MAYFIELD, ARGOS HILL WINDMILL TRUST LIMITED, MAYFIELD AND FIVE ASHES COMMUNITY SERVICES, L D NICHOLSON TRUST, THE WATERYARD GROUP,

DAVID BUTLIN Appointed: 2019

DR ANNE MIDDLETON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Gp

FRANCES RAE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired

JEREMY HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

JOHN OSBORNE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Servant

KEITH DOUGLAS BALAAM BSC CHEM

MARILYN DAINES, Occupation: None

THOMAS HAWKINS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Self Employed Media Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/08/1994, number: 1039911
Registered at Companies House on 21/10/1992, number: 02757675

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR20: 60 days late, AR19: 15 days late, AR18: 39 days late, AR11: 19 days late, AR10: 56 days late, AR09: 21 days late,

Main office

Richmond Terrace
49 London Road
Tunbridge Wells
TN1 1DT

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE PERSONS EXPERIENCING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS (2) TO CONDUCT STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO METHODS OF COUNSELLING SUCH PERSONS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH (3) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN PERSONS IN COUNSELLING TO RELIEVE PERSONS EXPERIENCING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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