Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 12

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 17

SOUTH LONDON COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES

Organising Drug and Alchohol Awareness Projects for children and young people between ages of 13-25.Offering counselling sessions to clients on various issues like bereavements, loss of job and income, depression, family and relationship issues. Counselling and mentoring young people that have dysfunctional behaviour and children and youth referred from the youth offending team.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified 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

Established: 16 years

www.slcservices.org

info@slcservices.org

02088523400

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
31/05/23		£89	£73	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/05/22		£71	£65	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/05/21	*	£85	£79	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/05/20		£38	£38	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/05/19		£27	£29	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/05/18		£43	£27	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/17		£15	£11	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/16		£21	£16	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/15		£6	£9	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/14		£16	£16	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/13		£28	£24	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/12	*	£30	£32	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/11		£17	£15	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/10		£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/09	*	£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£285,385
Mercer's Charitable Foundation	£105,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£52,250
DCMS	£9,980
The London Community Foundation	£7,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Brighter Futures
£265,395	06/07/2023	The funding will be used to provide mental health support project specifically for vulnerable or at risk young black people of African Caribbean background. The project aims to improve the mental ....more The funding will be used to provide mental health support project specifically for vulnerable or at risk young black people of African Caribbean background. The project aims to improve the mental wellbeing and confidence of participants.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to South London Counselling and Support Services
£105,000	01/04/2023	Free therapeutic counselling and support services for 200 BAME young people and their families in the community.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to South London Counselling and Support Services
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Right Steps
£9,995	08/04/2022	This funding will be used to provide support to BAME children and young people with mental health problems including anxiety stress depression and fear. The project aims to identify early signs of ....more This funding will be used to provide support to BAME children and young people with mental health problems including anxiety stress depression and fear. The project aims to identify early signs of mental distress and improve participants mental health and wellbeing by providing counselling advice and guidance peer support mentoring and positive activities.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to South London Counselling and Support Services
£50,000	20/10/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of South London Counselling and Support Services
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Futures
£9,995	05/02/2021 6	The funding will used be used to continue to provide online and telephone support to BAME children and families. The project aims to improve mental health well-being and support people during the ....more The funding will used be used to continue to provide online and telephone support to BAME children and families. The project aims to improve mental health well-being and support people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,980	07/07/2020	"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."
The London Community Foundation - Grant to South London Counselling Services
£7,500	30/06/2020	-Culturally sensitive loss and bereavement counselling and support. -Emotional and mental health support arising from confinement. -Provide readily accessible advice, guidance and information on ....more -Culturally sensitive loss and bereavement counselling and support. -Emotional and mental health support arising from confinement. -Provide readily accessible advice, guidance and information on Covid-19 and public health measures in different languages for communities whose first language is not English. Signposting people to other useful service providers.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Positive Change
£9,680	01/02/2017 12	This project will provide counselling and mentoring for young lone parents, allowing them to receive support and guidance on various issues and giving them a better chance in life.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-68

LASUN RAJI Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Director

DR ADEKINTE KEHINDE OYEKAN (Chair), Occupation: Medical Doctor

ROBERTA ABENA BASSAH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Nursery Practitioner

SAMUEL OROBOLA OSUNMAKINDE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Healthcare Professional (Rmn)

GERMAIN LABELLA Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Administrator

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/2008, number: 1125078
Registered at Companies House on 22/12/2006, number: 06037025

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

15 returns made; AR21: 7 days late, AR12: 94 days late, AR09: 127 days late,

Main office

143 BOUNDFIELD ROAD
LONDON
SE6 1PE

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND OTHER BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH LONDON BY PROVIDING ADVICE ABOUT EDUCATION, TRAINING AND CAREERS AND/OR SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM;A) PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MISUSE OF OR ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL; ORB) DISTRESS CAUSED BY BEREAVEMENTBY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, INFORMATION AND ADVICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

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