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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

WELLSPRING COUNSELLING LIMITED

Provision of community based counselling to those in need within the local area of North Somerset
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
31/12/23£300£211£90n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£198£157£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£180£164£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20*£348£256£92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£246£274£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£166£152£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£79£68£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£62£66£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£80£66£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£69£70£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£73£76£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£77£73£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£68£69£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£62£67£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£61£55£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£66£68£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£55£70£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£66£63£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05*£53£48£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£49£36£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 30 years

www.wellspringcounselling.org.uk

admin@wellspringcounselling.org.uk

01275810879

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire,
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
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Wellspring Counselling
£10,000 09/12/2022
Increasing our ability to reduce costs further for those clients who are particularly struggling with financial insecurity.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wellspring People First Pilot Project
£20,000 02/11/2020
- Scale up of current provision - Increase offer to 'walk and talk' sessions - focus on core groups on the waiting list - young people and older adults
CAF - Grant to Wellspring Counselling Ltd
£5,000 03/06/2020
3
Grant to Wellspring Counselling Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Wellspring Counselling
£5,000 02/04/2020
Towards continuing and increasing telephone and online counselling during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Quartet Community Foundation - Older People's Counselling
£5,000 27/09/2019
4
To offer subsidised counselling to older people in WsM and surrounding.
Quartet Community Foundation - Children and Young People (CYP) Counselling and CBT
£5,000 18/07/2019
5
Towards counselling for young people in North Somerset.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellspring?s Wellbeing Practitioners
£289,192 29/05/2019
36
Wellspring's Wellbeing Practitioners
Quartet Community Foundation - Children and Young People (CYP) Counselling and CBT
£5,000 23/11/2018
11
Towards counselling sessions and Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for children and Young people in areas of Nailsea, Backwell, Portishead and now Clevedon/Yatton area.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wellspring Counselling Ltd
£2,558 29/11/2017
We want to provide more Counselling for adults on benefits and more free Counselling for young people in more locations in North Somerset.
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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: 41-76
  • DR MARY FRANCES BACKHOUSE, Occupation: Medical General Practitioner
  • DR RACHEL EMMA DUGDALE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • ISLA HOBBS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Secondary School Student Advisor
  • ROB SWIFT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired
  • RACHEL DUNN Appointed: 2022
  • REV ASTRID TIESEMA-SAMSOM Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Vicar
  • SUSAN MARY JENNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/12/1994, number: 1042995
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/11/1994, number: 02988800
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 85 days late, AR05: 15 days late,
Main office

Wellspring Counselling Ltd
74 Silver Street
Nailsea
BRISTOL
BS48 2DS

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY BASED COUNSELLING TO THOSE IN NEED THEREOF AND BY TRAINING AND EDUCATING MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN COUNSELLING AND ALLIED SKILLS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE-NAILSEA, BACKWELL, WOODSPRING DISTRICT, BRISTOL, WANSDYKE DISTRICT, BATH,KINGSWOOD.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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