Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Spending declining: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 5

ABACUS COUNSELLING SERVICES LIMITED

Abacus is an independent counselling organisation providing individual and personal confidential support. Abacus's experienced counsellors are trained in many aspects of counselling and are able to facilitate a wide range of counselling services to meet the needs of the local community. Counsellors at Abacus work with people on an individual basis, in a private and confidential setting.

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 including a Community Foundation

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 25 years

www.abacus-cs.co.uk

info@abacus-cs.co.uk

02476226623

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
31/03/23		£20	£20	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£33	£33	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/21		£65	£64	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/20		£26	£28	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£40	£37	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18		£37	£41	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£44	£42	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£58	£66	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£140	£144	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£160	£159	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£110	£124	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£138	£132	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£114	£111	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£96	£83	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£39	£34	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£34	£38	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£32	£30	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£23	£22	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£18	£17	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£5	£10	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who works here?

10 volunteers

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Coventry City, Warwickshire,

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Abacus Counselling
£2,000	14/01/2021	in order to provide online counselling to Coventry residents affected by COVID 19.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,060	17/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to ABACUS Counselling Services Ltd
£3,000	24/04/2018 12	Grant to ABACUS Counselling Services Ltd
National Lottery Community Fund - Abacus Counselling Services
£301,856	05/06/2012 36	This is a continuation and expansion of an existing project in Coventry city centre by Abacus Counselling Services Ltd (Abacus) that aims to provide a counselling service to support the disadvantaged ....more This is a continuation and expansion of an existing project in Coventry city centre by Abacus Counselling Services Ltd (Abacus) that aims to provide a counselling service to support the disadvantaged within the local community. This project targets unemployed individuals (reinforcing personal skills), ex-offenders (to re-integrate back into society), school pupils with problems such as disruptive behaviour and absenteeism (usually caused by a breakdown of the family unit) and the homeless.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

LYN DE SOUSA Appointed: 2015

MERVYN LEWIS (Chair) Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Counsellor/Supervisor, Other trusteeship: VAL HENNESSY TRUST,

STELLA ROBERTS, Other trusteeships: CHARITIES OF SUSANNA COLE AND OTHERS, VAL HENNESSY TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/07/1999, number: 1076767
Registered at Companies House on 31/12/1998, number: 03690653

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR17: 7 days late, AR15: 119 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR07: 8 days late,

Main office

Brandon Accountancy Ltd
Suite 2
The Koko Building
The Arches
Spon End
Coventry

Objectives

A) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS AND WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ENRICHING PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFEB) TO SAFEGUARD AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAK-UP OF FAMILY AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST MIDLANDS AND WARWICKSHIRE

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