Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Mainly female board: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

VINE COUNSELLING SERVICES

Vine Counselling Services provides affordable (donation based) professional counselling services through qualified and trainee counsellors and practitioners to adults and children/young people.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

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	£105	£87	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22	£78	£70	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/21	£58	£45	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	24
31/03/20	£29	£29	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	28
31/03/19	£29	£28	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/18	£23	£26	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£27	£23	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£28	£21	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£14	£21	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£18	£20	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£19	£16	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£17	£13	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£10	£16	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£15	£11	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£11	£11	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£9	£6	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.vinecounselling.org

info@vinecounselling.org

01934876377

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

North Somerset,

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

Quartet Community Foundation	£11,000
DCMS	£7,320
Co-Operative Group	£5,624

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Vine Counselling Services
£2,358	21/10/2023	Vine Counselling Services aims to offer as many low-cost counselling appointments as possible, only asking for a small donation from clients.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Vine Counselling and Pastoral Services
£1,000	01/08/2023	To purchase new laptops and a new printer and load all necessary software as part of the set up
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Vine Counselling Services
£3,265	22/10/2022	We'd like to increase the number of counselling appointments available to the community. We'd do this by renting premises for longer periods and paying qualified counsellors to provide extra sessions.
Quartet Community Foundation - Continuation of hybrid counselling services
£5,000	23/03/2021 2	To assist with essential running costs so the group can continue to provide face to face, telephone and video counselling, meeting the increased and ongoing need among vulnerable individuals in the ....more To assist with essential running costs so the group can continue to provide face to face, telephone and video counselling, meeting the increased and ongoing need among vulnerable individuals in the community whilst fundraising is limited due to Covid19.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,320	19/06/2020	"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."
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Vine Counselling and Pastoral Services
£5,000	18/05/2020	For essential training/supervision/running costs for Counsellors to maintain adult counselling by video/telephone and to extend the service to members of the community needing support due to ....more For essential training/supervision/running costs for Counsellors to maintain adult counselling by video/telephone and to extend the service to members of the community needing support due to isolation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON NORCROSS Appointed: 2018

BARBARA HACKING Appointed: 2019

CAROL BEVERIDGE Appointed: 2022

HELEN WARD Appointed: 2021

SARAH JANE SHEEHAN (Chair) Appointed: 2013

ANN PURSEY, Other trusteeships: THE SIDNEY HILL CHURCHILL WESLEYAN COTTAGE HOMES, THE VICTORIA JUBILEE LANGFORD HOMES, CHARLES GRAHAM STONE'S RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY,

IAN RUSSELL STOCKER Appointed: 2017, Other trusteeships: NEW CREATION CHURCHES MENDIP VALE, APPLESHED INCLUSIVE THEATRE COMPANY,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/02/2007, number: 1117796

Gift Aid

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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

16 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Refectory
Station Road
Congresbury
Bristol
BS49 5DX

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE PREDOMINANTLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE LOCAL NORTH SOMERSET AREA BY PROMOTING AND PROTECTING THEIR MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING, WORKING/LIAISING WITH OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES AS REQUIRED.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY BASED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING TO ALL PERSONS WHO ARE DESIROUS OF RECEIVING THE SAME IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NORTH SOMERSET

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