2020-08-31-accounts

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

31 AUGUST 2020

Company Registration Number 03171892 Charity Number 1056310

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

CONTENTS	PAGE
Reference and administrative details of the charity and its
advisors	1
Trustees annual report	2 to 7
Independent Examiners report	8
Statement of financial activities (including income and
expenditure account)	9
Balance sheet	10
Notes to the financial statements	11 to 17

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY AND ITS ADVISORS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Charity Name	Wessex Counselling Service	Wessex Counselling Service
Company number	03171892
Charity number	1056310
Registered office and	Fairfield House, King Street, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1BH
operational address
Trustees	Trustees, who are also directors under company law, who
	served during the year and up to the date of this report were as
	follows:
	Mr AC Chapman	Chair
	Dr C Ellis
	Mr JC Sledge	Finances
	Mr A Perry	Secretary
	Mrs SJ Tillard
	Ms SM Brennan	Resigned September 2019
	Mr A Pullin	Appointed February 2020
Key Management
Personnel	Chris Davies	Head of Clinical Services
	Mike Keating	Head of Training
	Penny Old	Office Manager
Bankers	CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, Kent, ME19 4TA
	National Westminster Bank
Independent	Geoff Archer
Examiners	Bristol Community Accountants CIC
	The Park, Daventry	Road, Bristol, BS4 1DQ

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WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Wessex Counselling Service

The Trustees present the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 which also comprises the Directors' Report required by the Companies Act 2006.

Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

Legal Structure, Governance and Management

The charity is constituted as a company limited by guarantee, registered under the Companies Acts and its governing document is a memorandum and Articles of Association under company legislation. Its certificate of incorporation is dated 13 March 1996 and the last amendment to the governing document is dated 29 September 1997.

The charity registered with the Charity Commission on 21 June 1996.

By operation of law, all trustees are directors under the Companies Act 2006 and all directors are trustees under Charities legislation and have responsibilities, as such, under both company and charity legislation. The trustees are all individuals.

Method of Recruiting and Appointing New Charity Trustees

Trustees are elected by the Members of the charity at the Annual General Meeting: there must be no more than 10 trustees who must all be members of the charitable company. When recruiting new trustees, the Board considers any specialist skills needed, considering either existing or new areas of operation when seeking potential new candidates who could fulfil certain roles. They would then be proposed, elected and appointed by the management committee.

Organisational structure

The Board of Trustees administers the charity. The trustees have examined the major strategic, business and operational risks that the charity faces and are satisfied that systems are in place to adequately mitigate these risks.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Objectives, strategies and activities

The principal purpose of the charity is promoting, for the public benefit, psychological and mental health. Wessex does this by providing counselling to those suffering from psychological or emotional illness or distress and by training people to be psychodynamic counsellors and psychodynamic psychotherapists.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

On the 13[th] March the trustees and management team agreed to temporarily suspended in person training and counselling at all our venues. After a short break in services, during which we arranged for additional training for all our counsellors and supervisors to enable them to offer counselling remotely, we reopen offering telephone and online counselling. Working remotely was not always possible for all our counsellors or clients as not everyone was able to find a confidential space for the sessions. From seeing 93 clients a week this dropped to 62. This reduction in the number of clients had a significant impacted on our income but this was compounded as the fees we received from the clients dropped from an average of £28.87 per session to £19.70. This is because of the financial impact COVID-19 has had on our clients. During the first months of lock down we saw a steep decline in the number of referrals we received however from mid June we started seeing new clients and our client numbers are slowly increasing. We ended our financial year seeing 68 clients with an average fee of £21.30

Our training team worked hard over the easter break to ensure that we could deliver all our training courses remotely via Zoom. Due to the hard work and dedication of the team we have been able to run the courses successfully and were able to complete the academic year. The team also ensured that we have continued to meet the requirements of our accrediting bodies. We have been able to recruit applicants for our training courses and have a full complement of trainees starting in September 2020.

In order for the administrative team to work from home the trustees agreed we could invest in laptops and a new computer server which has enabled the team to work remotely. This has allowed new systems and procedures to be put into place to ensure the remote service continues to run smoothly.

As lock down ended in July, we decide that following all the government guidance we could start to offer a limited number of in person counselling sessions at all our venues. This is working however our priority throughout the pandemic has been the welfare and safety of our counsellors, staff, trainees and clients.

The trustees would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of everybody involved in Wessex Counselling which has enable the service to continue to offer counselling and training during the pandemic.

Counselling

We provide both long and short term professional low cost psychodynamic counselling to clients aged 18 and above with a wide range of emotional problems in our premises in Bath, Bristol, Frome and the surrounding area. The counselling service is accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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In March because of the Co-Vid 19 pandemic, it became clear that with the proposed lockdown we would not be able to continue to offer in person counselling. Despite the impact of CO-VID 19 we have remained committed to support people who cannot afford to pay our standard fees. To help people on benefits or low income we have continued to offer a scheme which allows clients to have up to six months counselling at £10 per session. This has helped 14 people to access counselling who previously would not have been able to afford it. We have supported an additional 16 clients who asked to reduce their counselling fees because of the impact of COVID-19. We have funded this from our reserves.

We also have a counselling bursary which has enabled three of our existing clients who face financial difficulties to apply for funding to help them cover the cost of their counselling which can be so vital when a client is experiencing financial difficulties.

The Key Centre scheme which we operate provides free time limited counselling to Frome residents on a low income who would not normally be able to afford counselling. We have now been running this scheme for more than nine years.

We continue to offer a discounted assessment fee to clients on low incomes.

Training

During the year we have offered a wide range of training opportunities including running three Introduction to Counselling Skills Course, an Intensive Foundation Course, a year long Foundation Course, a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, and a Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course. We also offered a series of successful continuing professional development workshops, some of them on Zoom, to our own graduate counsellors and other therapists. The courses are well supported, and we have applications from students prepared to travel considerable distance to undertake the trainings we offer.

Our Psychotherapy course is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and our Diploma course is accredited by both the British Psychoanalytical Council and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. This means that our training is rigorous, externally accredited and of the highest standards.

Each year in November we hold a graduation evening combined with our Annual General Meeting where the organisation comes together to review the year and celebrate with people who have successfully completed their course. This year we celebrated 28 people graduating from a variety of courses.

Youth Space Project

Youth Space continues to enjoy a collaborative relationship with Children In Need as we entered into the second year of the three year project. Like many others, in March the Youth Space Team and their clients faced the challenges of a sudden transition from in-person counselling to remote working. Understandably, some of our young people felt unable to make the move although others seemed to take it in their stride. Penny Old and Cathy Lyall, Youth Space’s Project Lead, quickly got to grips with this new normal and this meant the service continued without interruption. Unfortunately, the change in working arrangements meant that we had to say goodbye to Georgina Ford, one of our more experienced counsellors. However, those of us who remained continued to see young people over zoom and telephone, and completed work with a number of clients.

During this period, referrals declined, and this can be understood in different ways. Many young people who seek our support find school difficult and so their anxiety was mitigated by being at home. However, we also recognized that for many young people being able to find a private space at home, both literally and metaphorically, was difficult and this also affected numbers seeking counselling.

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YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Staffing

There have been some changes to our team during the year and we acknowledge our gratitude to the following people for the expertise, dedication and skills they have bought to the organisation. Although some of them are leaving roles within the organisation they are continuing to do other work for us for those who have left Wessex Counselling and we wish them well for the future.

Cathy Lyall Resigned as Youth Space Project Lead Collette Drury as Pre Clinical Course Lead Georgina Ford as an Adult and Youth Counsellor Diane O’Callaghan Supervisor and Jane Spencer Supervisor

Fund Raising Donations and Bursary Funding

During this extraordinary year we have raised money from sponsorship of our supporters to run the Bath Half Marathon. Although the mass run was cancelled runners completed their own run on their own course. We are very grateful to them as this raised £1763.75 for our counselling bursary which supports client who experience financial difficulties and would have to end their counselling without financial help with their fees.

Our trainee and associate counsellors generously gave 1173 voluntary counselling hours over the year. This represents a financial benefit to Wessex of £13,490 for which we are extremely grateful. It is important to recognise that without the support of the local community and our counsellors we would not be able to continue offering low cost counselling. We are grateful for the support we have received from Frome Relief in Sickness charity who have helped us fund counselling for local people in Frome. We would like to acknowledge our gratitude to the following people and organisations who have contributed time and or money to Wessex Counselling.

Wessex Counselling Service

NatWest Bank Lawrence Fairfield DAG Design Staff, Counsellors and Supporters of Wessex Counselling

Counselling Bursary Fund

Frome Relief in Sickness Trustees, Staff and supporters of Wessex Counselling

You-th Space

Children in Need Staff and Supporters of Wessex Counselling

Benefit for the public

Wessex Counselling was set up to provide affordable low-cost counselling to people in Bristol, Frome and the surrounding area and in conjunction with this to train psychodynamic counsellors and psychotherapists. By running a vibrant training service, we can subsidise the counselling we offer. With the Key Centre project, we are able to offer short to medium term free counselling to people in Frome who would not normally be able to afford counselling. We can offer a limited number of places to people on low incomes to enable them to have six months counselling at the reduced rate of £10 per session. We continue to raise funds as well as allocating funds from our reserves in order

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to subsidise the counselling we do to keep the service affordable and available to people in need. We also offer subsidised assessment sessions to prospective clients on a low income.

British Psychoanalytic Council Membership

As a membership organisation of the British Psychodynamic Council (BPC) we have a growing body of qualified psychodynamic counsellors and psychodynamic psychotherapists registered with the BPC through Wessex. With our recently qualified counsellors and psychotherapists becoming members we now have 55 members affiliated to Wessex. This body of members is important as we are committed to developing a community of registered psychodynamic counsellors and psychotherapists who work together to maintain professional standards and support our aim to provide professional low cost psychodynamic counselling. During the year members had the opportunity to attend a regular reading group.

Friends of Wessex

The organisation continues to be well supported by its body of Friends of Wessex Counselling. The Friends are kept up to date with news, events and job opportunities through newsletters which are sent out three times a year

Results and Reserve Policy

Despite the impact of the pandemic this has been a successful year for the counselling service as we continue to provide low-cost counselling to people in need and a well-regarded training programme. The result for the year shows a surplus of £16,359 against a surplus of £27,195 for 2019. The money held in our general fund stands at £131,254.

The trustees have developed a reserves policy based on the amount of money required to close Wessex Counselling over a six-month period and honour our commitments to our clients and counsellors in training. At the start of each financial year the organisation looks at its liabilities and obligations for the following year and calculates what funds are required these figures are then reviewed on a quarterly basis. We have calculated that £58,586 needs to be held in permanent reserve to cover this.

In 2019/20 the trustees focus on building reserves to be used for finding new premises for the service had to be changed as the Covid19 pandemic impacted on the service’s finances. The impact on the financial year has meant that we have made a small surplus however the impact on the finances for 20/21 are going to be significant and the trustees are ring fencing £15,000 of the reserves to cover the projected loss in 2020/21.

Funds received as agent or funds held as custodian trustee

There are no assets, classes of assets or categories of assets held on behalf of other entities.

Statement of responsibilities of the Management Committee

The trustees who are also the charity trustees have prepared financial statements for the financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and the incoming resources and application of resources, including the net income or expenditure, of the charitable company for the year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;

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• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company, and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and any other irregularities.

The trustees confirm that to the best of their knowledge there is no information relevant to the independent examination of which the examiners are unaware. The trustees also confirm that they have taken all necessary steps to ensure that they themselves are aware of all relevant examination information and that this information has been communicated to the examiners.

Independent examiners

Geoff Archer of Bristol Community Accountants CIC was appointed as the charitable company’s independent examiner during the year.

Approved by the trustees on ………………………………... and signed on its behalf by 08 Feb 2021

Alexander Chapman - Chair

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31st August 2020 which are set out on pages 9 to 17.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities [applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)].

I 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.

Geoff Archer Date: 15 Feb 2021 Bristol Community Accountants CIC The Park Daventry Road Knowle Bristol BS4 1DQ

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Including Income and Expenditure Account)

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Note Incoming and Endowments from: Donations and legacies 3 Charitable activities 4 Other trading activities 5 Investments 6 Total Income Expenditure On: Raising funds 7 Charitable activities 8 Other 9 Total Expenditure Net income Gross transfers between funds Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward	Unrestricted Funds £ 5,000 219,496 705 207	Restricted Funds £ 11,219 - - -	Total Funds 2020 £ 16,219 219,496 705 207	Total Funds 2019 £ 18,346 208,495 7,660 152
	225,408	11,219	236,627	234,653
	64 210,017 959	- 9,228 -	64 219,245 959	- 206,049 1,409
	211,040	9,228	220,268	207,458
	14,368 9,897	1,991 (9,897)	16,359 -	27,195 -
	24,265 106,989	(7,906) 20,710	16,359 127,699	27,195 100,504
	131,254	12,804	144,058	127,699

All of the activities of the charity are classed as continuing

The notes on pages 11 to 17 form part of these financial statements

As required by paragraph 4.67 of the SORP, the brought forward and carried forward funds above have been agreed to the Balance Sheet.

Details of the allocation of 2019 total funds between unrestricted and restricted are shown in note 19

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WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

BALANCE SHEET

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Note Fixed assets Tangible fixed assets 16 Current assets Debtors 13 Cash at bank and in hand Total current assets Creditors : Amounts falling due within one year 14 Net current assets or liabilities Total net assets or liabilities The Funds of the Charity 17 Restricted funds Unrestricted funds	2020 £ 3,513 2,107 198,102	2019 £ 3,094 3,386 200,150
	200,209 (59,664)	203,536 (78,931)
	140,545	124,605
	144,058	127,699
	12,804 131,254	20,710 106,989
	144,058	127,699

The directors are satisfied that the company is entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to small companies subject to the small companies' regime and in accordance with FRS102 SORP.

These financial statements were approved by the trustees on and are signed on their behalf by:

Dr Christopher Ellis. Date:08 Feb 2021 Alexander Chapman. Date:08 Feb 2021 Director Director

The notes on pages 11 to 17 form part of these financial statements

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

1 Basis of Preparation

• a) These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (issued on 16 July 2014), as amended by Update Bulletin 2 published in October 2018, effective for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

• b) The accounts have been prepared on the assumption that the charitable company is able to continue as a going concern, which the trustees consider appropriate having regard to the current level of unrestricted reserves. There are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern.

• c) The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.

2 Accounting Policies

• a) Income from donations is included in income when these are receivable, except as follows:

i) When donors specify that donations given to the charity must be used in future accounting periods, the income is deferred until those periods.

ii) When donors impose conditions which have to be fulfilled before the charity becomes entitled to use such income, the income is deferred until the pre-conditions have been met.

• b) Expenditure is recognised in the period in which it is incurred. Expenditure includes attributable VAT which cannot be recovered.

• c) Expenditure is allocated where the costs relate directly to that activity. Support costs have been allocated on the basis of the resources used on the particular activity.

• d) Depreciation is calculated so as to write off the cost of an asset, less its estimated residual value, over the useful economic life of that asset as follows:

• Office equipment - 25% straight line

Furniture - 10% straight line

• e) Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of the charitable company. Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charitable company which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose. Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charitable company's work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charitable company.

• f) The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently recognised at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

• g) The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the charitable company in an independently administered fund. Pension costs charged in the financial statements represent the contribution payable by the charitable company during the year.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Income and Endowments From:

3	Donations and Legacies	Unrestricted	Restricted	Total Funds	Total Funds
		Funds	Funds	2020	2019
		£	£	£	£
	Donations from individuals	5,000	-	5,000	442
	You-th Space bursary	-	9,455	9,455	11,955
	Counselling bursary	-	1,764	1,764	2,824
	Training bursary	-	-	-	3,125
		5,000	11,219	16,219	18,346
4	Charitable Activities
		Unrestricted	Restricted	Total Funds	Total Funds
		Funds	Funds	2020	2019
		£	£	£	£
	Counselling fees	83,039	-	83,039	75,212
	Training fees	123,768	-	123,768	133,283
	Subscriptions	12,689	-	12,689	-
		219,496	-	219,496	208,495
5	Other Trading Activities
		Unrestricted	Restricted	Total Funds	Total Funds
		Funds	Funds	2020	2019
		£	£	£	£
	Other miscellaneous income	705	-	705	7,660
		705	-	705	7,660
6	Investment Income
		Unrestricted	Restricted	Total Funds	Total Funds
		Funds	Funds	2020	2019
		£	£	£	£
	Interest receivable on bank deposits	207	-	207	152
		207	-	207	152

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Expenditure on:

7 Raising Funds

8 Charitable Activities Salaries -You-th Space Salaries -Training Salaries -Counselling Salaries - General General Costs - You-th Space General Costs - Key Centre General Costs - Training General Costs - Counselling General Costs - Street Project General Costs Depreciation 9 Other Independent Examiner's fee & accounts	Unrestricted Funds £	Restricted Funds £	Total Funds 2020 £	Total Funds 2019 £
	64	-	64	-
	Unrestricted Funds £ - 23,104 6,116 36,385 (184) - 74,107 34,184 - 35,224 1,081	Restricted Funds £ 1,560 - 387 700 4,815 - 1,353 - 413 - -	Total Funds 2020 £ 1,560 23,104 6,503 37,085 4,631 - 75,460 34,184 413 35,224 1,081	Total Funds 2019 £ 1,300 15,248 6,861 38,615 5,458 300 74,718 30,931 180 32,372 66
	210,017	9,228	219,245	206,049
	Unrestricted Funds £ 959	Restricted Funds £ -	Total Funds 2020 £ 959	Total Funds 2019 £ 1,409
	959	-	959	1,409

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WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

10 Net incoming resources for the year

This is stated after charging:

This is stated after charging:
	2020	2019
	£	£
Depreciation of owned fixed assets	1,081		66
Independent Examiner's Fees	959		998

11 Staff costs and numbers

The aggregate payroll costs were: Wages and Salaries Social Security Costs Pension Costs	2020 £ 67,359 - 893	2019 £ 61,414 - 610
	68,252	62,024

No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 (2019: £Nil) The average monthly head count was 7 staff (2019: 6)

The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2019: £nil) neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2019: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2019: £nil).

Total employee benefits paid to key management personnel during the year were £43,192 (2019: 31,846)

There were no other related party transactions during the year.

12 Taxation

The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.

13 Debtors

Trade debtors Other debtors Creditors Trade creditors Deferred income Accruals	2020 £ 2,107 -	2019 £ 2,655 731
	2,107	3,386
	2020 £ 5,408 53,297 959	2019 £ 13,366 64,606 959
	59,664	78,931

14 Creditors

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

15 Company limited by guarantee

The company is limited by guarantee and as such has no issued share capital. In the event of the company being wound up the liability of the members is limited to £1 each.

16 Tangible fixed assets

Cost At 1 September 2019 Additions At 31 August 2020 Depreciation At 1 September 2019 Charge for the year At 31 August 2020 Net book value At 31 August 2020 At 31 August 2019 17 Movement in funds Restricted funds Street Project Counselling Bursary Key Centre Training Bursary You-th Space Children In Need Unrestricted Funds General fund You-th Space (Designated) Total funds Note regarding fund transfers	At 01-Sep 2019 £ 1,158 4,575 631 5,109 9,237 -	Incoming resources £ - 1,764 - - - 9,455	Furniture & Equipment £ 25,280 1,500	Total £ 25,280 1,500	At 31-Aug 2020 £ 535 5,889 631 5,109 - 640
			26,780	26,780
			22,186 1,081	22,186 1,081
			23,267	23,267
			3,513	3,513
			3,094	3,094
			Outgoing resources £ (413) - - - - (8,815)	Transfers £ (210) (450) - - (9,237) -
	20,710	11,219	(9,228)	(9,897)	12,804
	106,989 -	225,408 -	(211,014) (26)	- 660 9,237	122,043 9,211
	127,699	236,627	(220,268)	-	144,058

The You-th Space fund was recorded as restricted in the prior year accounts. However the funds have no restriction, they have been internally allocated to the You-th Space project. The other transfers relate to the allocation of non-direct costs.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Purpose of restricted funds (continued)

Children In Need This money has been raised from local organisations and Children in Need to provide a short term counselling service to young people between 15-18. Street Project This money was donated anonymously to Wessex to provide free short term counselling to people who would not be able to otherwise afford counselling. Counselling Bursary Money raised to support our counselling clients who experience financial problems and would not be able to continue their counselling without the bursary supporting them. Key Centre This was funding donated to Wessex to provide free short term counselling to people living in The Mount area in Frome who would not otherwise be able to afford counselling. Training Bursary Money donated to help our trainees who maybe experiencing financial difficulties. The latest donation of £3000 was given to us to help trainees but the trustees have not yet agreed how it should be

18 Analysis of net assets between funds

Tangible fixed assets Current assets Current liabilities	Unrestricted Funds £ 3,513 187,405 (59,664)	Restricted Funds £ - 12,804 -	Total Funds 2020 £ 3,513 200,209 (59,664)
	131,254	12,804	144,058

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19 Analysis of charitable funds - previous year, as required by paragraph 4.2. of the SORP

Incoming and Endowments from: Donations and legacies Charitable activities Other Trading activities Investments Total income Expenditure On: Raising Funds Charitable activities Other Total expenditure Net Income Net movement in funds Transfer between funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward	Unrestricted Funds £ 442 208,495 4,660 152	Restricted Funds £ 17,904 - 3,000 -	Total Funds 2019 £ 18,346 208,495 7,660 152
	213,749	20,904	234,653
	- 196,551 1,409	- 9,498 -	- 206,049 1,409
	197,960	9,498	207,458
	15,789 15,789 - 91,200	11,406 11,406 - 9,304	27,195 27,195 - 100,504
	106,989	20,710	127,699

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Issuer Bristol Community Accountants CIC Document generated Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:22 UTC Document fingerprint c99c8400a1722ad1d746bf90ba1b64a7

Parties involved with this document

Document processed

Party + Fingerprint

Sun, 7th Feb 2021 19:37:07 UTC Mon, 8th Feb 2021 10:03:31 UTC Mon, 15th Feb 2021 10:04:32 UTC

Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman - Signer (1a2d81afaeaf8482c7c429536b193f8f) Dr Christopher John Ellis - Signer (22a0681822e727b67822f9890b03d4bc) Geoff Archer - Signer (e74ec5674f9028a353f1389c616cd41b)

Audit history log

Date

Action

Mon, 15th Feb 2021 10:04:32 UTC Mon, 15th Feb 2021 10:04:32 UTC Mon, 15th Feb 2021 9:52:56 UTC Sun, 14th Feb 2021 12:48:12 UTC Sun, 14th Feb 2021 12:48:01 UTC Sun, 14th Feb 2021 12:48:01 UTC Mon, 8th Feb 2021 10:03:31 UTC Mon, 8th Feb 2021 10:03:31 UTC Mon, 8th Feb 2021 10:03:31 UTC Mon, 8th Feb 2021 9:56:28 UTC Sun, 7th Feb 2021 19:37:08 UTC Sun, 7th Feb 2021 19:37:07 UTC

Sun, 7th Feb 2021 19:37:07 UTC Sun, 7th Feb 2021 19:31:53 UTC Sun, 7th Feb 2021 12:49:02 UTC Sun, 7th Feb 2021 12:49:01 UTC

The envelope has been signed by all parties. (86.163.14.41) Geoff Archer signed the envelope. (86.163.14.41) Geoff Archer viewed the envelope. (86.163.14.41) Document emailed to party email (3.10.225.80) Sent Geoff Archer a reminder to sign the envelope. (3.8.173.210) The active signer will be automatically reminded. (3.8.173.210) Document emailed to party email (35.176.77.191) Sent the envelope to Geoff Archer for signing. (88.107.161.89) Dr Christopher John Ellis signed the envelope. (88.107.161.89) Dr Christopher John Ellis viewed the envelope. (88.107.161.89) Document emailed to party email (3.10.235.6) Sent the envelope to Dr Christopher John Ellis for signing. (49.224.251.235) Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman signed the envelope. (49.224.251.235) Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman viewed the envelope. (49.224.251.235) Document emailed to party email (18.133.189.133) Sent Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman a reminder to sign the envelope. (3.8.173.210)

Sun, 7th Feb 2021 12:49:01 UTC Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:35 UTC Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC

Sun, 7th Feb 2021 12:49:01 UTC The active signer will be automatically reminded. (3.8.173.210) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:35 UTC Document emailed to party email (18.134.137.81) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Sent the envelope to Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman for signing. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Envelope has been set to automatically remind the active signer every 7 day(s). (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Geoff Archer has been assigned to this envelope. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Dr Christopher John Ellis has been assigned to this envelope. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Mr Alexander Thomas Chapman has been assigned to this envelope. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Envelope generated. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:23 UTC Document generated with fingerprint c99c8400a1722ad1d746bf90ba1b64a7. (35.177.199.231) Sun, 31st Jan 2021 12:49:22 UTC Envelope generated with fingerprint 589968fa6271c31d67d43cd5a5169632 (52.56.255.147)