Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

MERSEY COUNSELLING AND THERAPY CENTRE 

For the public benefit the relief of sickness in persons suffering from mentally related illness or stress; the provision of therapy and counselling services in such ways as may be thought fit;The advancement of education; this may include support of those wishing to become counsellors or therapists, as well as the provision of parenting and other general personal development training,
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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
30/06/23£211£196£15n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/22£222£203£20n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/06/21£220£185£35n/an/an/an/an/a18
30/06/20£168£148£20n/an/an/an/an/a15
30/06/19?£169£144£25n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£83£61£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£52£48£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£37£37£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£54£54£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£23£29£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£25£26£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£42£35£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.mctcwirral.org.uk

angela@mctcwirral.org.uk

07795054929

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wirral,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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 Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£22,170
The Clothworkers Foundation£22,000
National Lottery Community Fund£18,573
DCMS£8,950
Cheshire Community Foundation£4,556
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Supporting Vulnerable Young People
£10,000 20/09/2023
To offer counselling and psychotherapy to young people, specifically aimed at children struggling with emotional distress who are at risk of exclusion from school.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Collaborative Practice Solutions for Concerning Behaviours
£2,400 01/03/2023
To provide a collaborative proactive method of combating the rising numbers of students threatened with exclusion by working in a problem-solving way.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre
£2,000 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': purchasing a centre for a charity supporting people with mental health and disabilties in Cheshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Our Community
£9,432 30/08/2022
The funding will be used to contribute towards the cost of a clinical director to support people in need of counselling and therapy. The project aims to respond to increased need and improve mental ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Supporting Families in our Community
£4,950 29/07/2022
The funding will cover the costs of art therapist to work with children and young poeple with the aim of improving mental health and wellbeing.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Open To All
£4,820 08/06/2022
To provide further counselling sessions including parental mental health and a men's group.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Supporting our Community
£4,556 18/10/2021
MCTC provide counselling and therapy to those in need, who are unable to source support through statutory services or privately, either through lengthy waiting lists, financial restrictions, or a ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre - 22/08/21
£1,000 07/09/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting our Community
£9,141 25/06/2021
The funding will be used to deliver therapy and counselling sessions online and face-to-face for people of all ages in the community. People will be provided with therapeutic art activities and the ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre
£20,000 25/05/2021
purchasing a centre for a charity supporting people with mental health and disabilties in Cheshire
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,950 03/07/2020
"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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre
£3,448 19/11/2018
We want to create a garden space for both adults and children to relax, play, express, heal and be at peace.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Each of Our Children
£93,360 31/05/2018
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This is a new project by Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre to support children experiencing mental health issues and behaviour problems in Wirral. The project will act as a pilot and will be both ....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: 40-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/05/2011, number: 1141804
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/03/2011, number: 07569839
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
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR12: 28 days late,
Main office

1 The Coach House
Albion Street
BIRKENHEAD
Merseyside
CH41 5HB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTALLY RELATED ILLNESS OR STRESS. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE PROVISION OF THERAPY AND COUNSELLING SERVICES IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT;2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING THIS MAY INCLUDE SUPPORT OF THOSE WISHING TO BECOME COUNSELLORS OR THERAPISTS, AS WELL AS THE PROVISION OF PARENTING AND OTHER GENERAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING, AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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