Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 8

KERNOS CENTRE

The Kernos centre provides counselling and support services to people with emotional and psychological difficulties from a wide variety of causes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 21 years

www.kernos.org

admin@kernos.org

01787882883

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
30/09/22		£73	£89	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
30/09/21		£117	£101	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
30/09/20		£132	£113	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
30/09/19		£126	£142	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
30/09/18	*	£150	£125	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	8
30/09/17		£93	£100	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/16		£100	£84	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/15		£76	£75	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/14		£88	£80	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/13		£69	£84	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/12		£75	£74	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/11		£86	£75	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/10		£78	£67	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/09		£63	£57	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/08		£49	£57	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/07		£53	£45	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/06		£36	£41	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/05		£36	£32	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/04		£19	£19	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Suffolk,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
12 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

Suffolk Community Foundation	£47,590
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,900
DCMS	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Suffolk Community Foundation - Kernos Centre Core running costs.
£20,650	22/01/2021 2	Supporting unfunded counselling sessions and core costs at The Kernos Centre.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Kernos Centre Core running costs.
£5,000	21/08/2020 2	Towards 3 months core running costs for Kernos during the Covid 19 pandemic.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000	21/08/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Supporting Kernos Centre Core Costs for 3 months
£5,000	29/05/2020 2	To support core costs during the Coronavirus emergency. Covid19
Suffolk Community Foundation - Counselling for Carers
£3,240	27/05/2020 12	To support Counselling for Carers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustaining Vulnerable People through the Corona Virus
£9,900	07/05/2020 12	The funding will be used to deliver online counselling sessions for vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic. The project aims to support their mental wellbeing.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Sustaining Vulnerable Community members through the Corona Virus
£5,000	16/04/2020 2	Working remotely to assist people with poor mental health via online counselling sessions during the Covid 19 lock down.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Senior Counselling
£5,700	13/11/2019 21	To support Senior Counselling.
Suffolk Community Foundation - To reduce the waiting list of vulnerable adults and children & young people waiting for support.
£3,000	03/06/2019 12	To reduce the waiting list of vulnerable adults and children & young people waiting for counselling support.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Counselling for Carers
£5,405	06/06/2018 11	Helping carers of adults with counselling sessions free at the point of delivery.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Children & Young People in Crisis
£3,000	30/01/2018 12	To provide 100 counsellng sessions to children and young people from Sudbury, Cornard and surrounding areas.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Staying Safe Online
£10,291	16/01/2018 12	To work in partnership with 10 local primary schools to raise awareness and educate children and young people around online safety.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Supporting Emotional Health & Wellbeing for children,young people & their families
£16,000	30/11/2017 12	To fund the continuation and expansion of counselling services, supporting vulnerable young people in the Sudbury area.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Counselling support for unemployed and disadvantaged adults on benefits
£4,600	13/11/2017 12	To cover the clinical cost of counselling sessions for financially disadvantaged adult clients.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-78

CHRISTINE BOATWRIGHT Appointed: 2002, Occupation: Counsellor

DAVID PAUL MORRIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Architect, Risk

DEBORAH DEEKS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Audit & Governance Manager

GRAHAM BRUCE HILL (Chair) Appointed: 2002, Occupation: Consultant

KAREN SMOUT FCA Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Seior Manager

MICHELLE TURNBULL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Operations Director

PETER BROWN Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/05/2003, number: 1097354
Registered at Companies House on 10/09/2002, number: 04530654

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR18: 29 days late,

Main office

MRS ANNABEL WYATT
32-34 FRIARS STREET
SUDBURY
SUFFOLK
CO10 2AG

Objectives

(A) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BOTH OF MIND AND BODY AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH COUNSELLING SERVICES AND HELP IN PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THEIR SICKNESS AS MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR COUNSELLORS AND FOR DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION TO OTHER PERSONS ( INCLUDING PROFESSIONALS )

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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