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WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

31 AUGUST 2024

Company Registration Number 03171892 Charity Number 1056310

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

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 18

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY AND ITS ADVISORS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Charity Name Wessex Counselling Service
Company number 03171892
Charity number 1056310
Registered office and No 5, 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:
Antony Perry
Chair		 Resigned July 2024
Robert Kelso
Chair
Sarah Tillard
Andrew Pullin resigned June 24
David Davies resigned May 2024
Victoria Bruce-Gardyne appointed Nov 2023
Sam Hart appointed Nov 2024
Catherine Nolan appointed April 2024
resigned Dec 2024
Key Management
Personnel Penny Old
Head of Operations – retired July 2024
Fran Milliner
Office Manager
Jenny Lanyon
Chair Training Executive
Jo-Anne Graham
Head of Clinical Services
Bankers CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, Kent, ME19 4TA
National Westminster Bank, 250 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AA
Independent Joanne Trowbridge MAAT
Examiners Bristol Community Accountants CIC
The Park, Daventry Road, Bristol, BS4 1DQ

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TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Wessex Counselling Service

The Trustees present the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024 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 2019).

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.

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.

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TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Trustees’ report

This has been a challenging year for Wessex as Penny Old, who has worked tirelessly as Head of Operation also covering vacancies of Head of Training and Head of Clinical Services, retired on 31[st] July after over 25 years loyal service. The trustees have struggled to recruit a replacement for Penny and we were delighted to appoint Fran Milliner as Office Manager; Jenny Lanyon as Chair of Training Executive and Jo-Anne Graham as Head of Clinical Services. The next financial year will be an opportunity for the management team to make significant progress on all fronts.

Tony Perry resigned as chair at the March 2024 AGM and his loyal service as trustee for 15 years will be sorely missed. Andrew Pullin resigned after 6 years as trustee and the trustees will miss his experience working in a variety of roles for Wessex. David Davies, formerly head of Clinical Services also resigned. Robert Kelso a 1990s-graduate of Wessex, was elected Chair of Trustees.

Training

The last year has been one of transition, extending over the period leading up to Penny Old’s retirement as Acting Head of Training, to the induction and appointment of Jenny Lanyon as the new Head of Training in May 2024. This created some understandable uncertainty during the recruitment phase. Once an appointment was made, the training function settled back into its normal routine.

As always, we have offered a wide range of training opportunities in the last year, including running three Introduction to ‘Counselling Skills Course, an Intensive Foundation Course, a Year-Long Foundation Course’, as well as a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling. We also offered a series of successful continuing professional development workshops to our graduate counsellors and other therapists. This year also saw our newly convened Postgraduate Group fully assume its responsibilities to our graduates, and it has grown to be an impressive Wessex voice.

All courses have been well supported. Trainee numbers were very slightly lower than the previous year for the Diploma, but the Foundation numbers were as anticipated. All courses continued, nonetheless, to be well-supported. Our Diploma course is accredited by both the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). In November 2023, we received a reaccreditation visit from the BPC. The feedback received was very good, and the BPC was happy to reaccredit our course. As one of only five counselling trainings accredited by this body in the UK, we are very proud of our BPC status. This accreditation confirms that our training is both rigorous and delivered to the highest standards. The training team works hard to ensure that we continue to meet the requirements of our accrediting bodies. The success of our training courses is a key element in the ongoing success of the organisation.

Each year in November we hold a graduation evening where the organisation comes together to review the year and celebrate with people who have successfully completed their course. This event was held in person at Frome Town Hall and was attended by graduates from our Foundation and Diploma Courses together with their families and supporters. This was a celebratory occasion where, as a thriving training organisation, we were able to acknowledge the success of our new graduates.

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, Street,

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YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Frome and the surrounding area. The counselling service is accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Over this year we have continued to offer counselling sessions remotely though the number of clients who are now being seen in person has increase by 3% to 93%. Referrals have remained stable during the year and over the year we were working with an average of 120 clients per week, an increase of 25. We ended the financial year seeing 132 clients which is an increase of 27, paying an average fee of £30.27 which is an increase of £2.51.

Our bursary scheme has been called on to support 12 clients over the year. We have allocated a total of £3,135 to support these clients who face financial difficulties to help them cover the cost of their counselling. The trustees in support of our charitable aims consider it is vital that when a client is experiencing financial difficulties, they have support in place to help them with the issues they are experiencing.

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

Youth Space Project

THE MODEL

Our Youth Space service provides up to 12 weekly sessions of psychodynamic counselling for young people aged 15-18 years who live in the Mendip area (although the geographical area can be extended but this is determined on a case-by-case basis). Fees are income-based and we use the same household income structure as the adult service, the difference being that where necessary we offer the counselling free of charge. The majority of parents/referrers pay something towards the counselling and a number pay the full £45 fee.

OUR STAFF

We currently have 3 counsellors working for Youth Space, 2 on a paid basis, one volunteer who is using her YS work as part of her placement on the Wessex/Bridge Foundation CCYP course. Counsellors are required to hold a caseload of up to 3 clients.

CLIENT INFORMATION / WAITING LIST

Our counsellors are currently working with 2 young people, and we have one on the waiting list.

REFERRALS

Referrals come from a number of different sources. Primarily Frome College, Frome Medical Practice, Beckington Family Practice, Google searches and recommendations from ex-clients and their families. Since our move from Fairfield House, some parents have contacted us after noticing our window. More recently we have had referrals from social workers and CAMHS. We have also had referrals from GP surgeries in Warminster and Westbury.

The majority of assessments are undertaken with parents/key workers but some young people (particularly the Year 12 and 13 Frome College students) like to do their own.

July 2023 – August 2024

Over the year YS received 44 referrals, worked with 26 young people, provided 208 client hours and provided sessions both in person and on zoom. 6 of the young people were returners (i.e. had had previous sessions and applied for a further 12 sessions).

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TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Of the 26 young people who started their counselling, 15 attended 9 or more of their sessions. 10 clients paid the full fee of £45.00 and 6 received their counselling free of charge. 4 grant-funded clients were care-leavers or in foster-care and one client was funded by Social Services.

FEES, GRANTS AND FUNDRAISING Total Session Fees received - £4438

Staffing

Penny Old Head of Operations retired in July 2024 after 25 years’ service. Fran Milliner started as Office Manager in March 2024. Jenny Lanyon started as Chair of Training Executive in May 2024. JoAnne Graham started as Head of Clinical Services in July 2024

Fund Raising Donations and Bursary Funding

Our trainee and associate counsellors generously gave 2594 voluntary counselling hours over the year. This represents a financial benefit to Wessex of £32,425.00 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 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

DAG Design Staff, Counsellors and Supporters of Wessex Counselling Somerset Community Trust Frome Rotary Club Youth with a Future

Counselling Bursary Fund

Trustees, Staff and supporters of Wessex Counselling

Youth Space

Frome Town Council Hansons Youth Space Counsellors, Trustees, Staff and Supporters of Wessex Counselling

Benefit to the public

Wessex Counselling has become an essential part of mental health provision in Frome and beyond. It was originally set up to provide affordable low-cost counselling to people in Frome, Bristol and the surrounding area and in conjunction with this to train psychodynamic counsellors and psychotherapists. While we provide a successful, dynamic, academic training programme, we also enable the trainee to examine in detail their self-awareness to enable them to be competent, empathetic counsellor/psychotherapists. We continue to raise funds as well as allocating funds from our reserves in order to subsidise the counselling we do. This enables the service to keep counselling sessions affordable and available to people in need. We also offer subsidised assessment sessions to prospective clients on a low income.

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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 77 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 Wessex’s aim to provide professional low-cost psychodynamic counselling to local people. A steering group has been set up for what has been renamed the Post Graduate Group. The steering group has been involved with setting up an Ethics Committee, developing a website of resources for the membership to access and a membership committee.

Results and Reserve Policy

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 £17,632 compared to a surplus of £17,795 for 2023. Our freely available unrestricted reserves balance at the 31[st] August 2024 was £148,955.

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, students 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. In 2023/24 we calculated that £129,878 is needed to be held in permanent reserve to cover this.

Trustees

The Trustees who held office during the year were:

Chair of Trustees – Anthony Perry 1.8.23 to 1.3.24 Chair of Trustees - Robert Kelso 1.3.24 Sarah-Jane Tillard Andrew Pullin David Davies Tamsin Bruce Gardyne

Anthony Perry resigned June 2024 Andrew Pullin resigned in June 2024 David Davies resigned April 2024 Catherine Nowlan resigned Dec 2024

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TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

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:

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

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

4/4/2025

Approved by the trustees on ………………………………... and signed on its behalf by

Robert Kelso Chair of Trustees

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31st August 2024 which are set out on pages 9 to 18.

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

As the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of MAAT.

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.

(<c C2F8368E1B574EA...DocuSigned by: Joanne Trowbridge MAAT Date: 4/4/2025 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 2024

Note
Incoming and Endowments from:
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Other trading activities
5
Investments
6
Total Income
Expenditure On:
Charitable activities
7
Other
8
Total Expenditure
Net income
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
8,036
299,807
4,976
1,583		 Restricted
Funds
£
8,000
3,213
-
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
16,036
303,020
4,976
1,583		 Total Funds
2023
£
11,365
294,687
1,649
1,561
314,402 11,213 325,615 309,262
296,296
1,511		 10,176
-		 306,472
1,511		 290,028
1,439
297,807 10,176 307,983 291,467
16,595 1,037 17,632 17,795
16,595
156,396		 1,037
16,036		 17,632
172,432		 17,795
154,637
172,991 17,073 190,064 172,432

All of the activities of the charity are classed as continuing

The notes on pages 11 to 18 form part of these financial statements

Details of the allocation of 2023 total funds between unrestricted and restricted are shown in note 18

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BALANCE SHEET

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

2024 2023
Note £ £
Fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets 15 10,751 12,661
Current assets
Debtors 12 8,302 5,893
Cash at bank and in hand 257,983 240,333
Total current assets 266,285 246,226
Creditors : Amounts falling
due within one year 13 (86,972) (86,455)
Net current assets or liabilities 179,313 159,771
Total net assets or liabilities 190,064 172,432
The Funds of the Charity 16
Restricted funds 17,073 16,036
Unrestricted funds 172,991 156,396
190,064 172,432

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:

Robert Kelso Date: 4/4/2025

Director

The notes on pages 11 to 18 form part of these financial statements

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

1 Basis of Preparation

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) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

2 Accounting Policies

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.

Leasehold Improvements - 20% straight line

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Income and Endowments From:

3
Donations and Legacies
Counselling bursary
Other bursary
Donations and Legacies prior year
Counselling bursary
Other bursary
4
Charitable Activities
Counselling fees
Training fees
Subscriptions
Charitable Activities prior year
Counselling fees
Training fees
Subscriptions
5
Other Trading Activities
Other miscellaneous income		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
585
7,451		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
8,000		 Total Funds
2024
£
585
15,451		 Total Funds
2023
£
3,545
7,820
8,036 8,000 16,036 11,365
545
4,420		 3,000
3,400		 3,545
7,820		 Total Funds
2023
£
127,033
150,385
17,269
4,965 6,400 11,365
Unrestricted
Funds
£
153,392
136,861
9,554		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
3,213		 Total Funds
2024
£
153,392
136,861
12,767
299,807 3,213 303,020 294,687
127,033
150,385
14,994		 -
-
2,275		 127,033
150,385
17,269		 Total Funds
2023
£
1,649
292,412 2,275 294,687
Unrestricted
Funds
£
4,976		 Restricted
Funds
£
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
4,976
4,976 - 4,976 1,649

Other Trading Activities prior year - all unrestricted

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

6 Investment Income

Investment Income
Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2024 2023
£ £ £ £
Interest receivable on bank deposits 1,583 - 1,583 1,561

Investment Income prior year - all unrestricted

Expenditure on:

7 Charitable Activities

Wages & salaries inc outsourced labour
General costs - You-th Space
General costs - Training
General costs - Counselling
General costs
Depreciation
Charitable Activities prior year
Wages & salaries
General costs - You-th Space
General costs - Training
General costs - Counselling
General costs
Depreciation
8
Other
Independent Examiner's fee & accounts preparation		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
92,158
2,538
91,981
56,365
51,084
2,170		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
3,542
-
-
6,634
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
92,158
6,080
91,981
56,365
57,718
2,170		 Total Funds
2023
£
90,441
7,494
99,028
45,829
41,642
5,594
296,296 10,176 306,472 290,028
90,441
108
99,028
45,829
36,025
5,594		 -
7,386
-
-
5,617
-		 90,441
7,494
99,028
45,829
41,642
5,594		 Total Funds
2023
£
1,439
277,025 13,003 290,028
Unrestricted
Funds
£
1,511		 Restricted
Funds
£
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
1,511
1,511 - 1,511 1,439

Other prior year - all unrestricted

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

9 Net incoming resources for the year

This is stated after charging:

Depreciation of owned fixed assets
Independent Examiner's Fees		 2024
£
2,170
1,057		 2023
£
5,594
1,007
10
Staff costs and numbers
The aggregate payroll costs were:
Wages and Salaries
Social Security Costs
Pension Costs		 2024
£
84,880
1,292
1,595		 2023
£
84,628
938
1,550
87,767 87,116

No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 (2023: £Nil) The average monthly head count was 7 staff (2023: 7)

The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2023: £nil) neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2023: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2023: £nil).

Total employee benefits paid to key management personnel during the year were £47,370 (2023: £42,647)

There were no other related party transactions during the year (2023: £nil)

11 Taxation

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

12 Debtors

Trade debtors
HMRC
Creditors
Trade creditors
Deferred income (see note)
Accruals		 2024
£
7,336
966		 2023
£
5,893
-
8,302 5,893
2024
£
16,076
69,385
1,511		 2023
£
15,392
69,624
1,439
86,972 86,455

13 Creditors

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

13a Deferred income

Movement in deferred income account
Balance at the start of the reporting period
Amounts added in current period
Amounts released to income from previous periods
Balance at the end of the reporting period		 2024
£
69,624
98,957
(99,196)		 2023
£
77,008
69,624
(77,008)
69,385 69,624

The deferred income for 2024 and 2023 represent course fees and deposits received in advance of services supplied.

14 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.

15 Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets
Cost
At 1 September 2023
Additions
At 31 August 2024
Depreciation
At 1 September 2023
Charge for the year
At 31 August 2024
Net book value
At 31 August 2024
At 31 August 2023		 Leasehold
Furniture &
Improvements
Equipment
£
£
13,924
33,950
-
260		 Total
£
47,874
260
13,924 34,210 48,134
5,570
1,114		 29,643
1,056		 35,213
2,170
6,684 30,699 37,383
7,240 3,511 10,751
8,354 4,307 12,661

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

16
Movement in funds
Restricted funds
Frome Town Council
Key Centre
Training Bursary
Youth Space - Other
Youth Space - Rotary Somerset Comm
Youth Space - Somerset Comm Fund
Hanson
Big Lottery
BPC Post Graduate
Somerset Community Energy Fund
Inner Wheel
Total Restricted funds
Unrestricted Funds
General fund
Counselling Bursary (Designated)
Key Deposit (Designated)
You-the Space (Designated)
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 At
01-Sep
2023
£
75
631
5,109
4
2,433
-
1,000
1,948
3,822
14
1,000		 Incoming
resources
£
-
-
-
2,000
-
6,000
-
-
3,213
-
-		 Outgoing
resources
£
(75)
-
(1,000)
(400)
(1,300)
(2,912)
(1,000)
(1,948)
(1,033)
(14)
(494)		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 At
31-Aug
2024
£
-
631
4,109
1,604
1,133
3,088
-
-
6,002
-
506
16,036 11,213 (10,176) - 17,073
146,320
1,559
40
8,477		 304,285
3,135
(10)
6,992		 (290,899)
-
-
(6,908)		 -
-
-
-
-		 159,706
4,694
30
8,561
156,396 314,402 (297,807) - 172,991
172,432 325,615 (307,983) - 190,064

Purpose of restricted funds

Frome Town Centre

Donation to cover the cost of providing free counselling to Children and Young people aged between 15 and 18 in Frome

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 spent.

Youth Space - Other

The funds were given to provide counselling to young people between the age of 15-18

Youth Space - Rotary Somerset Comm

Somerset Community £4000 to be used for counsellor Fees and Supervision. Rotary Club £2500 to be used to cover up to 8 Youth Space Clients who cannot afford to pay for their Counselling

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Docusign Envelope ID: 19EAFF19-D810-423B-8E95-10761E047146

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

Purpose of restricted funds (continued)

Youth Space - Somerset Comm Fund

To support children leaving the care system.

Hanson

Donation to cover the cost of providing free counselling to Children and Young people aged between 15 and 18 in Frome and the surrounding area.

Big Lottery

For Improvements to new building to allow more disabled access and to comply with Fire regulations.

BPC Post Graduate

Membership Money held for the Wessex BPC Postgraduate Body.

Somerset Community Energy Fund

To help with the cost of heating our building after the increase energy prices in 2022.

Inner Wheel

Money to support up to 5 adult counselling clients who cannot afford to pay our minimum fee

17 Analysis of net assets between funds

Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
10,751
249,212
(86,972)		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
17,073
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
10,751
266,285
(86,972)
172,991 17,073 190,064

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Docusign Envelope ID: 19EAFF19-D810-423B-8E95-10761E047146

WESSEX COUNSELLING SERVICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024

18 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:
Charitable activities
Other
Total expenditure
Net Income
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
4,965
292,412
1,632
1,561		 Restricted
Funds
£
6,400
2,275
17
-		 Total Funds
2023
£
11,365
294,687
1,649
1,561
300,570 8,692 309,262
277,025
1,439		 13,003
-		 290,028
1,439
278,464 13,003 291,467
22,106
134,290		 (4,311)
20,347		 17,795
154,637
156,396 16,036 172,432

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