Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

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:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 29 years

www.wellspringcounselling.org.uk

admin@wellspringcounselling.org.uk

01275810879

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
31/12/22		£198	£157	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/12/21		£180	£164	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/12/20	*	£348	£256	£92	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/12/19		£246	£274	£-28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/12/18		£166	£152	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	40
31/12/17		£79	£68	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£62	£66	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£80	£66	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£69	£70	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£73	£76	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£77	£73	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£68	£69	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£62	£67	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£61	£55	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£66	£68	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£55	£70	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£66	£63	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	*	£53	£48	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£49	£36	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

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 works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 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	£289,192
Quartet Community Foundation	£45,000
CAF	£5,000

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 (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-75

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

JONATHAN MCGILL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Web Designer

ROB SWIFT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

RACHEL DUNN Appointed: 2022

REV ASTRID TIESEMA-SAMSOM Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Vicar, Other trusteeship: CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES,

REV DEBORAH COOKE MALLETT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Methodist Minister

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

Complaints handling
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

19 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.

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