Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

THE COUNSELLING AND FAMILY CENTRE, ALTRINCHAM 

CFC's mission is to improve the mental health of children, young people and adults of all ages. We currently offer 1 to 1 counselling, facilitated support groups, courses for service users and training for counsellors and related professionals. We strive to ensure our support is easy to access, flexible and responsive to need.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 14 years
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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£656£749£-93£7£269£2033.32025
31/12/21*£648£541£106£9£362£2916.51355
31/12/20£346£348£-2n/an/an/an/an/a55
31/12/19£420£473£-53n/an/an/an/an/a51
31/12/18£424£392£32£0£0£0n/a058
31/12/17£305£305£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£280£261£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£238£194£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£181£157£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£148£139£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£124£131£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£53£62£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£162£101£60£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 75%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 6.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bury, Cheshire East, Manchester City, Salford City, Trafford,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
  • 25 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
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£300,027
National Lottery Community Fund£246,699
Henry Smith Charity£131,000
The Pilgrim Trust£90,000
Masonic Trust£59,889
BBC Children in Need£36,711
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
DCMS£12,237
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre
£2,081 21/10/2023
Funding is for a counsellor to run our therapeutic allotment project twice a week. People can be active outdoors while talking to someone who understands, make new friends and grow fresh vegetables.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£59,889 16/11/2022
To fund a PT counsellor providing weekly 1:1 counselling to 75 disadvantaged children each year across Trafford and South Manchester.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre
£1,749 22/10/2022
We would like to make more free counselling sessions available to local people on low incomes, so that we can be there to help as soon as they need us.
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to CFC
£2,000 31/07/2022
outdoor seating for café
National Lottery Community Fund - Better mental health in Bury
£168,151 25/07/2022
This funding will support the Counselling and Family Centre to extend free counselling support to children and adults on low incomes in Bury receiving £168151 over 3 years. The support will seek to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Bringing People Together
£10,000 15/07/2022
The funding will be used to extend the range of free-to-access support groups including one focused on bereavement one on addictions and one on carers. The project aims to help people who are ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Limelight
£79,772 28/02/2022
We would like you to invest in a counselling outreach service delivered from the Limelight Centre. This will consolidate the small outreach services we previously offered in north Trafford – none ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Time to Recover
£92,855 28/02/2022
We want to respond to the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of our community
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre, Altrincham
£90,000 23/11/2021
36
Building Resilience: improving young women's access to trauma-focused counselling and ensuring that their voices shape the design of local mental health services
National Lottery Community Fund - Stronger Together
£10,000 21/05/2021
The funding will be used to expand an existing programme of group support for people struggling with mental health issues. The group work will cover life after bereavement and loss addiction coping ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Counselling and Family Centre
£131,000 04/02/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing counselling for people with substance misuse issues in Old Trafford, Cheshire.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre, Altrincham
£36,711 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver online and face to face counselling for children and young people experiencing poor mental health due to Covid-19, resulting in reduced self-harming behaviour, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 31/07/2020
Coping with crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Counselling & Family Centre
£6,112 24/07/2020
Grant to Counselling & Family Centre meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
CAF - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre
£10,000 25/06/2020
3
Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£12,237 24/06/2020
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
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Core costs - Counsellors
£100,000 19/05/2020
continue to be a safety net for Trafford residents with mental health issues who are unable to access the right support at the right time anywhere else. Your investment in our core counselling costs ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Support through crisis
£48,668 15/05/2020
6
The Counselling and Family Centre are a local charity established over 40 years ago in Altrincham Trafford to provide counselling and family support across South Manchester. Funding will enable the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing together
£9,880 12/02/2020
12
The project will run a community allotment project aimed at veterans, recovering addicts and schools with special needs. Sessions will have a therapeutic focus and will be ran by a qualified ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Community Coheshion Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre
£4,780 16/12/2019
12
Want to run a community allotment project from the Wellfield Lane allotments with a focus on improving physical and mental wellbeing for people who face barriers to getting involved with mainstream ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Project Extension
£27,400 05/08/2019
To extend our counselling support for whole family groups and expand this support into the north of the borough, allowing us to support an additional 100 people through family therapy.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Positive Futures
£123,155 11/03/2019
36
Funding will enable the organisation to expand its services with additional staff. The aim of the charity is to offer counselling services to children, young people and families.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Counselling and Family Centre
£2,914 19/11/2018
We want to run courses that build confidence and self esteem and help people back into the workplace.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cafe in the Park
£9,205 25/10/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to improve the community café attached to their community hub. The improvement of the café will develop the training they offer to people in order to assist ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 17/09/2018
Moving on
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Cafe in the Park
£8,442 06/08/2018
to improve access to our well-used community café and lounge for wheelchair and pushchair users and to improve the appearance of the outside seating area.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Counselling & Family Centre
£14,100 25/07/2018
24
This request would enable the charity to develop, pilot and evaluate a bespoke employment offer specifically targeting female offenders, recovering addicts and survivors of domestic abuse.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Counselling and Family Centre
£109,900 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a family project providing counselling to people with substance misuse in Old Trafford, Cheshire
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Familiy Counselling / Family support
£54,800 30/11/2017
3 year project to Increase capacity and extend geography of family counselling and establish data for comissioning
National Lottery Community Fund - Meeting the needs of North Trafford
£9,970 09/08/2017
12
The project will provide cultural awareness and working with trauma training for counsellors so they can extend their support services.
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Moving On From Abuse
£8,048 27/06/2016
To offer counselling support to victims of domestic abuse to help them take control and make better choices, through learning effective coping strategies and boosting their confidence and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Family Service - for whatever life throws at you
£166,557 16/12/2014
36
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Counselling and Family Centre Altrincham
£58,000 11/09/2014
36
towards three years' salary of an Addiction and Family Support Coordinator/Practitioner at a project supporting families affected by addiction and at-risk children and young people in a deprived area ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-74
  • PENNY BULLOCK Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Counselling Clinical Supervisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/12/2009, number: 1133079
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/08/2009, number: 07003266
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; AR21: 60 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE RELATIONSHIP HUB (NORTH WEST) LIMITED on 16/02/2024
Main office

The Counselling & Family Centre
40 Mayors Road
ALTRINCHAM
WA15 9RP

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S PURPOSE IS THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING A FAMILY AND COUNSELLING CENTRE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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