# Community Counselling
Accounts for the year ended
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31st May 2025
Community Counselling index Year to 3ist May 2025
## Pages 1-2 Trustees report
- Page 3 Receipts and Payments Account Page 4 Statement of Assets and Liabilities Page 5 Notes to the accounts Page 6 Independent Examiner's Report
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Community Counselling Trustees Report Year to 31st May 2025
## Reference And Administration Details
The name of the charity is: Community Counselling.
Charity registration number is: 1049519
The address of the charity is: St. Bartholomews Church & Centre, 292b Barking Road, London, E6 3BA
The Trustees who served during the year are:
## Served during the year
Damian Castello (Chairperson) Sharon Anderson (Vice Chair)
Lova Rajaonarimanana (Treasurer) Rosemary Williams (Secretary)
## Nadayna Alexander
Will Buckley
Vincent Foxcroft : Clare Hawes Sally Higgs Rachel Remedios
Maria Spyrou
The Trustees have had regard to Charity Commission guidance on public benefit.
## Aims and Objects
Community Counselling has been working in the London Borough of Newham for over 30 years. We provide one-to-one counselling for anyone in East London who is suffering from psychological distress that threatens their mental and emotional health and wellbeing, such as depression, anxiety, feelings of ioneliness and isolation, bereavement, childhood trauma and low self-esteem. We are an independent voluntary organisation and are able to offer low-cost medium and long-term counselling, sometimes supporting clients over several years. We do not receive any public funding and our counsellors offer their time without charging. In the current year we have 24 counsellors working with us and currently see 78 clients a week.
## Structure
We area collective of qualified counsellors and counsellors in training who volunteer our services parttime. We are an organisational member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and work within their guidelines for good practice.
Our structure is defined by the Constitution which was adopted on 13" February 2016. The quarterly meeting is our main decision-making body, supported by smaller Clinical issues and Service Delivery groups. Our trustees are elected at our Annual General Meeting from our body of counsellors, who are given a detailed induction and introduction to our policies and procedures at their initial supervision session. We have a team of four qualified supervisors who provide monthly low-cost supervision. All our counsellors are further supported by monthly peer supervision groups and, when possible, by free quarterly continuing professional development workshops.
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Community Counselling Trustees Report (continued) Year to 31st May 2025
## Activities, achievements and performance
In the year 2024/25 we assessed 90 clients and on average our team of 24 counsellors was seeing 78 clients per week. We continue to work remotely, either by Zoom or by telephone, or in person at St Bart’s in East Ham, according to the preference of counsellors and clients. Six student counsellors completed their placements with us and qualified and have stayed on as volunteers. We are grateful to those qualified counsellors who continue to volunteer with us. We were able to offer placements to three new counselling students.
## Financial review and funds
Community Counselling continues to support clients who are unable to meet the cost of counselling charged by private practitioners. We have been able to keep our fees low (most clients pay £15 or £20 per session) and we have been able to support a few clients at a lower fee or no fee. We were not in receipt of any funding this year. We continue to pay our experienced counsellors a token amount for some of their client work, since only a small number of clients are working face to face (currently 25 out of 78 clients) and there is not much rent payable for rooms. This has helped us to retain our experienced counsellors and support those counsellors who have also suffered financial hardship because of the pandemic.
The trustees have a policy to retain sufficient reserves to be able to fund activities for the year ahead. Reserves held at 31* May 2025 totalled £18,315.
## RMUSVAOMS
Rosie Williams
Secretary, Community Counselling 12th March 2026
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## Community Counselling Year to 31st May 2025
|||£|£|£|£|£|A|
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|||Total|Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Restricted|Unrestricted|
|Receipts||||||||
|Donations||45,752||45,752|39,149||39,149|
|Fundraising||1,743||1,743|0||0|
|Grant||0||0|0||0|
|Interest received||9||9|9||9|
|Payments||||||||
|Rent|;|5,361||5,361|4,353||4,353|
|Professional bodymembershipfee||252||252|242||242|
|Insurance||282||282|385||385|
|Accounting||820||820|732||732|
|Telephone||240||240|385||385|
|Printing, postage& stationery||0||0|0||0|
|Workshopexpenses||0||0)|0||0|
|Administrativecost||4,545||4,545|3,280||3,280|
|Supervision cost||7,573||7,573|6,210||6,210|
|Volunteer expenses
Gifts||28,285
400||28,285
400|26,047
0||26,047
0|
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## Community Counselling
Statement of Assets and Liabilities At 31st May 2025
|At 31st May 20252025||||
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|||2025|2024|
|||£|£|
|Assets||||
|Bank account balances||18,318|18,570|
|Net assets||18,318|18,570|
|Reserves||||
|Unrestricted Funds|—|||
|As at 1stJune 2024||18,570|21,044|
|Surplus/-Deficit foryear|year|-254|-2,474|
|||18,315|18,570|
|Restricted Funds (see|note 2)|||
|As at 1st June 2024||0|0|
|Surplus/-Deficit foryear|year|0|0|
|Totalreserves||18,315|18,570|
## Assets
## Total reserves
## Accounts approved by:
Rosie Williams
## (Secretary)
Date of approval 12th March 2026
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## Community Counselling
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Community Counselling
| report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31st May 2025, which are set out on pages 1 to 5.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act”).
| report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## Independent examiner's report
| have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records
have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
R M Holland FCA BSc (Econ)
12th March 2026
## Holland Harper LLP
Chartered Accountants 26 High Street Battle East Sussex TN33 OEA
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