Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 10

SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING

The provision of affordable counselling services by professionally trained and supervised counsellors.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

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

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		£82	£85	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/12/21		£73	£76	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/20		£74	£59	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/19		£54	£56	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/12/18	*	£56	£54	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	18
31/12/17		£66	£51	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£54	£58	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£56	£54	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£56	£60	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£40	£56	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£54	£55	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£45	£54	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£61	£62	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£51	£62	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£58	£47	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£44	£49	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£42	£36	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£38	£33	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£45	£46	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

www.southbuckscounselling.org

enquiries@southbuckscounselling.org

01494440199

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to South Bucks Counselling
£30,000	27/05/2022	Funding will help underpin our Client Subsidy Fund for the next 3 years, allowing us to support around 120 Bucks people each year needing counselling for mental heath related issues
National Lottery Community Fund - Client Subsidy Fund
£9,900	13/05/2022	The funding will be used to deliver subsidised counselling sessions for people in the community who are experiencing issues including poor mental health bereavement and relationship breakdown ....more The funding will be used to deliver subsidised counselling sessions for people in the community who are experiencing issues including poor mental health bereavement and relationship breakdown enabling community members on low incomes to access the service alleviating financial barriers with the aim of promoting wellbeing.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to South Bucks Counselling
£14,000	04/12/2020 12	Core costs towards the delivery of subsidised counselling sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Client Subsidy Fund
£9,100	22/05/2020 4	The group will use the funding to provide counselling services for people who are facing mental health issues resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. The project aims to support people to improve their ....more The group will use the funding to provide counselling services for people who are facing mental health issues resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. The project aims to support people to improve their wellbeing.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-68

CHRISTOPHER DAVID BUSHNELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

SCOTT WALKINSHAW Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Publisher

DAVID FARMER Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Financial Services

DR CLARE MARIE WYATT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Communication

PENELOPE ANN HOLMES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Counsellor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/01/2003, number: 1095554
Registered at Companies House on 22/07/2002, number: 04491415

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR18: 12 days late,

Main office

South Bucks Counselling
Easton Street
HIGH WYCOMBE
HP11 1NJ

Objectives

TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS LIVING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE TO PROMOTE MATURITY AND WHOLENESS OF PERSONALITY THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP OF PSYCHIATRIC, RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES; TO CONDUCT STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SUCH PERSONS THROUGH RELIGION AND PSYCHIATRY, AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH; AND TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN PERSONS IN COUNSELLING SO THAT THEY MAY ASSIST MEDICALLY QUALIFIED CONSULTANTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PERSONS LIVING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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