Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

THE TURNING POINT COUNSELLING SERVICE

Based in Brighouse, we offer a counselling service to adults and young people in this area who contact us for help.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
31/03/23		£57	£44	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22		£41	£41	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	24
31/03/21		£30	£27	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/20		£37	£32	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/19		£47	£34	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/18		£15	£43	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£9	£44	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£98	£23	£75	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£14	£18	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£14	£13	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£12	£12	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£15	£11	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£10	£8	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£6	£7	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£8	£7	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£9	£7	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£3	£5	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£5	£4	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£5	£1	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

www.turningpoint-brighouse.org.uk

info@turningpoint-brighouse.org.uk

01484950808

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Calderdale,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
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

Community Foundation for Calderdale	£22,290
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
DCMS	£9,742

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Hardship Fund
£3,000	14/11/2023	Grant to The Turning Point Counselling Service
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Capacity Building
£14,290	29/11/2022	Grant to Turning Point Counselling Service
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Accessibility for All
£5,000	27/05/2021	Grant to Turning Point Counselling Service
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,742	25/06/2020	"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."
National Lottery Community Fund - Service Stability to Meet Community Need
£10,000	26/02/2020 12	The group will use the funding to allow their current counselling service to continue to run. The project offers early and long term support to adults and young people who are in emotional distress.
National Lottery Community Fund - Service growth to meet community need
£10,000	06/12/2018 12	This project will allow the group to expand the counselling services that they offer, therefore improving people's health and wellbeing.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Gender Split

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HARTLEY Appointed: 2015

CHRISTINE HOOD Appointed: 2018

DAVID STANLEY PALETHORPE

URSULA BLAGG Appointed: 2021

ALAN HOGGARD (Chair), Other trusteeship: RASTRICK (ST JOHN'S) SCOUT GROUP,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/09/2004, number: 1105857

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission
Financial Conduct Authority

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR07: 2 days late,

Main office

16 Church Lane
BRIGHOUSE
HD6 1AT

Objectives

THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY OFFERING A COUNSELLING SERVICE BASED ON THE CHRISTIAN ETHOS TO ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 14 YEARS, IN AN EFFORT TO RELIEVE EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL SUFFERING. THE PROVISION OF ONGOING DEVELOPMENT TRAINING TO QUALIFIED COUNSELLORS AND THOSE WORKING TOWARDS THEIR PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION TO HELP FURTHER THIS OBJECT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OTHER SERVICES LINKED TO THE PRIME OBJECTIVES WHEN A RELEVANT NEED AND ADEQUATE RESOURCES ARE IDENTIFIED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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