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Company number: 03258939 Charity number: 1058545

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Report and financial statements For the year ended 30 September 2021

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Contents

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Reference and administrative information ...................................................................................... 1 Trustees’ annual report .................................................................................................................. 3 Independent auditor’s report ....................................................................................................... 21 Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) ................... 25 Balance sheet ............................................................................................................................... 26 Statement of cash flows ................................................................................................................ 27 Notes to the financial statements ................................................................................................. 28

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Reference and administrative information

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Company number 03258939
Country of incorporation United Kingdom
Charity number 1058545
Country of registration England and Wales
Registered office and 2nd Floor, America House
operational address 2 America Square
London
EC3N 2LU
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:
Martin Pollecoff Chair
Andy Cottom Vice-chair
David FitzGerald Treasurer
Bob Cooke Resigned 29 May 2021
Brett Kahr Resigned 31 December 2020
Divine Charura Resigned 31 December 2020
Jacqui McCouat
John Loughrey Lay
John Nuttall Appointed 12 February 2021; resigned 18 October 2021
Juliet Rosenfeld
Suzy Walker Lay – Resigned 7 June 2021
Syed Azmatullah
William Daniel-Braham Appointed 8 March 2021
Joanna Lucas Appointed 15 November 2021
Key Management Sarah Niblock Chief Executive
Personnel Jovana Perzic Head of Academic Enterprise and Innovation
Cath White Head of Operations and Regulation
Helen Willingham Head of Content and Engagement
Bankers CAF Bank Ltd
Kings Hill West Malling
Kent
ME19 4TA
Barclays Bank plc
PO Box 2764
London
NW3 6JD

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Reference and administrative information

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Unity Trust Bank P O Box 7193 Planetary Road Willenhall WV1 9DG Solicitors Fieldfisher 35 Vine Street London EC3N 2AA Auditor Sayer Vincent LLP Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor Invicta House 108-114 Golden Lane London EC1Y 0TL

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

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A message from our Chief Executive

When we set out on our journey to make emotional and mental health a human right, we never envisioned a year like the one we’ve just experienced. For the public, as well as for some within the UKCP family, it has been a time of tragedy and trauma.

Psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling have a huge role to play in Britain’s sustainable recovery – reconnecting individuals, families, communities. The coronavirus pandemic has seen the rates of people experiencing depression and anxiety for the first time significantly increase, while people with pre-existing issues have found their problems worsening. This has fuelled our determination to prioritise the needs of people in distress by better signposting how they can access high-quality support. We’ve also worked hard to emphasise the benefits of psychotherapy to policy-makers and MPs, and put our energies into supporting our members to deliver excellence.

The pandemic and its impact on the traditional lifeblood way of working for most psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors – in-person consultations – threw professional life into disarray for longer than was originally expected. We undertook regular surveys of full clinical members to identify particular areas where they needed support, responding with online events, surgeries and guidance via our website’s COVID-19 Hub.

We wondered whether members might decide to close their practices, but the vast majority migrated successfully and very capably to fully remote or hybrid ways of working to ensure ongoing support for distressed clients. A key part of our role was to try to gain some clarity from policy-makers on whether/when therapists could work in person in particular settings. Accordingly, we made an effort to collaborate in close tandem with our sister bodies to ensure we were aligned.

Creating a sustainable, values-led, relational solution to the mental health crisis can only be achieved by ensuring our membership reflects the individuals and communities we serve. Our independently chaired Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce, comprising members and staff, has been meeting all year and is currently finalising its report and set of recommendations for the Board of Trustees. Across the whole organisation, we’re working to better understand and address the barriers to both entering and accessing the profession for people with a range of protected – as well as some unprotected – characteristics.

While the year has been one of the most challenging in our recent history, our team has continued to work effectively and productively remotely. They have really stepped up in spite of the unusual and testing conditions to focus on taking the operation from strength to strength while keeping themselves and others safe in a small organisation where we are mutually reliant.

Due in part to many people re-evaluating their careers during the pandemic, we processed an unprecedented number of applications to join UKCP from students and trainees. With these new therapists-in-waiting making up a third of our community, we have taken active steps to ensure they are appropriately targeted and supported during their journey to becoming full clinical members, such as through research events. They represent the future of this profession and its capacity to remain relevant and recognised in the face of significant health funding challenges, along with the surge in threats from other providers, such as apps.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

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For the wider membership, online events and workshops geared towards enhancing practice during a dramatic period of transition from in-person work to remote have been very well attended. An important focus has been on building a research culture and capacity among our members and by aligning with strategic partners. Demonstrating that psychotherapy works is a logistical as well as financial challenge in an organisation of our size, and yet it is of ever more pressing importance that we find mechanisms to ensure public trust in the profession alongside recognition from policy-makers and parliamentarians. As with so much of our activity, our staff, Board and other volunteers work very creatively and smartly to leverage opportunities to maximise our impact.

Prof. Sarah Niblock UKCP Chief Executive

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Trustee’s annual report

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Trustees’ Annual Report

The trustees of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) present their report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2021.

Reference and administrative information set out on pages 1 and 2 form part of this report. Our financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, our memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.

Objectives and activities

This report looks at what UKCP has achieved and the outcome of our work within the past 12 months. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits we have brought to the people we are set up to help. The report also helps our trustees ensure our aims, objectives and activities remained in line with our stated purposes.

The trustees review UKCP’s aims, objectives and activities each year.

Vision

We want a world in which emotional and mental wellness is a human right.

Purpose

To transform lives by unlocking potential.

Mission

Alongside professional support for our members we are the leading research, innovation, educational and regulatory body working to advance psychotherapies for the benefit of all.

Our strategic objectives

Improving access

To make sure that high-quality psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling in both private and public sectors is available to everyone, no matter who they are.

Engaging better

To improve the way we engage with our individual and organisational members and provide services and benefits which are valued by all.

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Maintain standards of excellence

To protect the public by making sure everyone on our register meets our professional standards, at the same time making sure our register meets national accreditation requirements. To continue setting high standards in the way we govern and organise ourselves.

Collaborating for success

To develop existing external collaborations and actively seek new ones to achieve a more powerful voice to promote psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling.

Research

To carry out appropriate research and use findings to promote psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling and inform our members’ training and development for the benefit of all.

Our charitable objectives

Our charitable objectives, as set out in our Articles of Association, provide a framework through which our strategic aims can be achieved. They are to promote:

Public benefit

The trustees have referred to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

Achievements and performance in the delivery of public benefit

Improving access to psychotherapy

We’re committed to raising the profile of psychotherapy and UKCP so the public, service users, media, policy-makers, professionals and partners fully understand the profession, act in its best interests, and think of us as its ‘go to’ expert body. As part of this work, we target diverse audiences to encourage them to join the profession or feel more open to seeking psychotherapy.

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Helping influence £20 million in new funding for psychotherapy in the NHS

Alongside Health Education England (HEE) and the other major psychotherapy and counselling professional bodies, we worked on an important project this year to identify and address key barriers to providing psychotherapy and counselling in the NHS in England.

Following the project, HEE announced plans to invest £20 million to recruit and train 300 new high intensity therapists in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services across England. Most of these new recruits will deliver psychotherapies that are significantly under-represented within IAPT.

To make sure our influencing with HEE reflected our members’ experiences, we met with 25 UKCP members who work in the NHS to learn more about the barriers they face. We’re now developing a comprehensive report on the structural barriers to the progression of psychotherapy in the public sector, which we’ll share next year.

In addition, we surveyed more than 500 UKCP members about the level of unpaid work they’ve carried out in the NHS, to demonstrate the financial burden this work puts on psychotherapists, as well as the value of it to the NHS. This will feature in our upcoming report too.

We also helped influence HEE to include a psychotherapy and counselling representative in the IAPT stakeholder group – a vital consortium that helps steer the development of services across England. The group had previously only had representatives from the psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy professions.

Campaigning for patients to be offered more treatments

The updated National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on depression in adults – due to be published in 2022 – will influence the provision of depression support nationwide for years to come. We believe the draft guidance isn’t fit for purpose. It poses a serious threat to patient choice and will result in patients being offered a limited selection of treatments, which may not be the best treatments for them.

As a leading member of a coalition of more than 40 organisations, this year we continued to put pressure on NICE to amend the guideline. Ahead of the publication of its third and final draft, we contacted more than 200 MPs requesting their signatures on a cross-party letter to NICE in support of our campaign. Our efforts have already led to a number of concessions, and we hope this further political support will help secure a final draft guideline that ensures people with depression have access to the treatment they need.

Launching our new website and Find a Therapist tool

Our website is crucial to our goals as an organisation. It’s the first port of call for people seeking therapy and for anyone looking for psychotherapy training, while influential decision-makers use it to find information about UKCP. It also plays a key role in supporting our members.

After a year of research, design, development and content creation we launched a brand new website for UKCP in December 2020, aiming to provide users with an even better experience. It includes a new and improved Find a Therapist tool for people looking to work with a psychotherapist in person or remotely.

Across the whole of the 2020/21 year, 600,000 people visited our website. The new Find a Therapist tool has led to an increase of over 30 per cent in the time people spend on its webpage, and a 33 per cent increase in people clicking through to therapists’ profile pages.

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Encouraging diversity and inclusion in psychotherapy

We know we need to do more to improve the diversity of psychotherapists. In 2020/21, we continued to be an active member of the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion, which brings together organisations committed to improving diversity in the psychotherapy and counselling professions.

Following a successful event in early 2021 that aimed to identify barriers to inclusion in organisations that train psychotherapists, the coalition has been working to produce a toolkit to ensure psychotherapy trainees receive adequate training to support them working with difference among clients, and to ensure the perspectives of trainees from minority groups are included.

Influencing the Scottish government to support mental health

Ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections in May 2021, we asked for candidates to pledge to take action on mental health. As a member of the Scottish Mental Health Partnership, we submitted a joint manifesto asking candidates to commit to promote good mental health for the whole population, prevent poor mental health by tackling issues such as economic insecurity, and provide a full range of treatments and therapies.

Following the election, we met with the newly appointed Scottish Mental Health Minister to introduce him to the Partnership’s work and hear about the government’s plans to deliver on its 10-year mental health strategy.

Reaching key audiences via the media

We continued to raise the profile of psychotherapy and UKCP among the public and policy-makers through a broad range of media channels, receiving a steady stream of coverage. Our aim is to demystify psychotherapy, and make it socially acceptable to talk about therapy and mental wellbeing. We championed key dates such as Alcohol Awareness Week and Stress Awareness Month, as well as making our voice heard on issues like the climate crisis and COVID-19.

Some highlights included:

Engaging better

We’re committed to providing the very best resources, representation and experience for our members to support them in their high standards of practice. We work hard to attract new – and retain existing – members by improving and promoting what we offer.

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Supporting more members than ever before

Our membership grew by 6 per cent this year, to over 10,000, meaning we’re now supporting more psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors than ever to deliver excellent services to their clients.

Our growth included a remarkable 41 per cent increase in student members compared to last year. This steep rise is mainly due to us offering free student memberships, and our organisational members that offer training courses promoting this. We hit our target for keeping our existing members too, with 96 per cent renewing their memberships.

Offering excellent digital events

With the pandemic still ongoing, we continued to provide high-quality online webinars where our members could learn and network with each other to improve their practice. Subjects included remote working, marketing and research.

We also set up an Events Sub-committee to work on proposals for the format, content and strategy for our events in 2021/22. It held its first meeting in August 2021.

Training on conversion therapy

We organised a series of training days this year to support our organisational members to develop their training and practice in line with the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, a commitment UKCP has signed with other leading organisations to end conversion therapy in the UK.

We also offered a webinar on this topic for our individual members, as well as a separate webinar for supervisors.

Providing useful and interesting communications for members

Building on the success of the communication strategy we introduced last year in response to the pandemic, emails continued to be a great way to communicate useful information to help our members keep up to date and improve their skills.

This year we started personalising our emails, so members only see information relevant to their membership grade and location. This means more members read our emails, and get more value from them. We introduced a monthly email update sharing useful information with our organisational members too.

Published three times a year, our magazine, New Psychotherapist, also continued to provide valuable updates for all our members, including interesting features on hot topics in the profession, and useful advice for psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors to enhance how they practise.

Funding trainees

This year we continued to financially support psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors in training so they can afford to join the profession. The UKCP Bursary 2021 cycle was successfully launched in June 2021. This year we extended applications to both UKCP Trainee and Student members.

We gave 54 students and trainees £750 each towards their training, following 97 applications. On top of £20,000 set aside in our budget for bursaries, we were able to add another £16,000, which we saved by digitalising our membership certificates last year. We also invited donations to increase our bursary fund. These raised another £2,425, making a total of £40,500 including gift aid and funds brought forward from 2019/20.

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Last year we developed a robust process to make applying easier, fairer and more transparent – we followed this again in 2020/21, with some minor improvements. We processed applications via our CRM system, which meant we were able to generate a report with some useful insights on applicants’ backgrounds.

Understanding our members’ needs

Keen to understand what our student and trainee members need from UKCP, we asked them to complete a survey this year. Thirty students and 150 trainees answered 15 questions on their experience of UKCP membership. We received a lot of very useful feedback, which we’ll analyse and formulate into a strategy to improve what we offer.

We also surveyed our organisational members this year, to help us restructure our categories and fees for these members, and to find out where they might need more support from us. We’re now collating the findings as we continue working to improve organisational membership. We set up a Working Group to help better define the relationship we have with our organisational members too.

Maintaining standards of excellence

To achieve the most for our members and the psychotherapy profession, we’re committed to improving the way we govern ourselves and regulate our members. We continually review structures across our organisation, addressing diversity issues as a priority.

Ensuring high standards from psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors

This year we continued to conduct quality reviews of our organisational members and annual audits of our individual clinical members, making sure they are providing the highest quality psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for their clients.

We successfully moved all our quality reviews online in response to the COVID-19 restrictions. In the 2021 calendar year we audited 196 psychotherapists, while in the 2020/21 financial year we reviewed 17 current organisational members, two applicant organisations, and three new training programmes offered by current organisational members.

Launching our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce

We were delighted to launch our new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce in October 2020. Its goal within 12 months is to inform and recommend a Diversity Action Plan for the benefit of existing UKCP members, potential members and clients.

The Taskforce aspires to address power, privilege and discrimination dynamics within UKCP systemically, structurally and politically, creating a paradigm shift within the organisation and the profession.

The Taskforce is chaired by Inclusive Boards, a leading agency specialising in inclusion, and taskforce members come from all levels of UKCP. They were recruited through a fair and transparent process intended to attract people to represent all protected characteristics as well as some relevant unprotected characteristics, including socio-economic diversity.

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Updating our training standards

To support our child psychotherapeutic counsellor members and ensure those new to practice get the best training possible, our Education, Training and Practice Committee reviewed and revised the UKCP Standards of Education and Training for Child Psychotherapeutic Counselling this year.

Improving education and training

Our Education Working Group was formed in November 2019 to make recommendations to the Board of Trustees on mechanisms to ensure that UKCP psychotherapy and psychotherapy trainings are providing the highest level and quality of education and career preparation.

The group explores the potential for various educational partnerships and developments, including the diversity and inclusivity education within UKCP trainings. This year two group members represented UKCP on the Advisory Group of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education (HE) for the review of Subject Benchmark Statements for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BA and MA).

Looking after our people

We’ve been fortunate to retain a solid staff team throughout 2020/21, with only a low level of turnover. UKCP staff continued to work from home in line with government guidelines, which made it important to look after their wellbeing so they could remain happy and productive.

A survey we did in February 2021 showed that our people continue to feel happy and supported in their roles, and believe our work culture remains as positive as it was pre-pandemic. We carried out further consultations with staff to gather qualitative feedback on what working at UKCP might look like going forward. Most staff told us they would like to adopt a hybrid model of blended home and office working.

Improving our IT systems

This year we worked hard to put streamlined IT solutions in place to make it easier and smoother for our members to renew their memberships and take part in our quality assurance processes. We’ve also improved how we gather data on our members, which will help us meet their needs more exactly.

Honouring the best in the field

Every year, through our Honorary Fellowship Awards, we pay tribute to those in the profession who further the values and ideals of the fields of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling, and of UKCP. Following a robust and rigorous nominations and selection process, four UKCP psychotherapists received an Honorary Fellowship in 2021.

Dealing with complaints

A core part of our service to the public is dealing with any complaints about psychotherapists on our register. During 2020/21, we received 81 formal complaints (out of an average of 8,519 members) against our members, resulting in three interim suspension order hearings and nine adjudication panel hearings. Our swift move to holding hearings online meant we continued to hear the most serious complaints in a timely manner despite the challenges of COVID-19.

Our analysis found that confidentiality continues to be the most common cause of complaints about our members. In December 2020, we delivered a webinar to 97 practitioners looking at situations where psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors might be asked to break confidentiality, such as during court proceedings, and what to do about it.

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Collaborating for success

To best support our members and advocate for and promote the psychotherapy profession, we’re committed to brokering new, and developing existing, collaborations with professional bodies, service users, the media and those in research and the private sector. We develop relationships with those representing minority groups to help us achieve mutual diversity aims.

Delivering courses with Imperial College London

In partnership with Imperial College London, we delivered three online evening courses this year: ‘Introduction to Psychotherapy: A Social History of the Mind’, ‘Understanding Psychotherapy: Through the Psychotherapists’ Eyes’, and ‘10 Great Psychotherapists’.

Some students have since gone on to enrol with our organisational members on other UKCP-accredited courses. The courses also offered a great opportunity for UKCP members to refresh their knowledge and gain CPD towards their re-accreditation. All three modules received very positive feedback from attendees and the Imperial team.

We’ve agreed to run another three courses in 2021/22.

Raising awareness with the Talking Therapies podcast

This year we continued our podcast series, Talking Therapies, in partnership with Psychologies magazine. With more than 5,000 listens across all episodes between October 2020 and August 2021, Talking Therapies raises awareness of psychotherapy and promotes emotional and mental wellness.

Working together to combat conversion therapy

We believe conversion therapy – trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or suppress their gender identity – is unethical and harmful. We are a signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Conversion Therapy in the UK, alongside 20 other organisations, and an active member of the MoU Coalition against conversion therapy.

Amidst the coalition’s ongoing work to end conversion therapy, we welcomed the government’s commitment to introducing legal measures to ban conversion therapy in the May 2021 Queen’s Speech. We pledged to support the Government Equalities Office to develop effective legislation that complements existing ethical guidance for therapists. We also met with officials to discuss progress, offer our perspective on how the existing MoU on Conversion Therapy might interact with a legal ban, and how to avoid unintended consequences for therapists.

Research

We’re committed to delivering research to promote psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling, and to inform our members’ training and development. We aim to undertake research to identify issues around diversity facing the profession and the mental health sector.

Awarding research grants

This year we awarded a total of £14,820 in funding to three impactful research projects on relational research supervision, Chinese calligraphy as an effective form of therapy, and inclusivity and exclusivity in therapy. We also commissioned analysis of IAPT datasets and contracted Professor Michael Barkham and his team at the University of Sheffield to conduct research on the importance and efficacy of client choice. Continuing momentum with our Research Working Group

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Our Research Working Group, which first met in March 2020, has continued to hold remote meetings each month to assess and support UKCP’s overarching research goals, providing valuable input on high-level research priorities.

Improving members’ engagement with research

This year we continued to engage with our members about our research activities. Highlights included a well-attended webinar on reflexivity and research, which attracted 197 participants.

Sharing the best submissions from our COVID-19 article competition

Last year we launched an article competition asking members to write about psychotherapy in the age of COVID-19. This year the 10 winning articles were brought together into a special edition PDF, which we published on the UKCP website.

Capturing COVID-19 insights through member surveys

We captured the experiences of our members delivering therapy during COVID-19 in three surveys that spanned last year and this year. This not only helped us provide better support for our members, but we also combined the quantitative and qualitative insights that we gained from these surveys into a journal article, which is now ready for publication.

Working with YouGov on mental health

In partnership with YouGov, we polled a representative sample of 2,000 UK adults to gain a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and the subsequent take-up of mental health support. As well as showing that more than 50 per cent of respondents felt that NHS support either made no difference or worsened their mental health, the survey also revealed that respondents found psychotherapy and counselling to be significantly more effective interventions than medication or cognitive behavioural therapy. We summarised the findings in a blog, which we published on our website.

Plans for the future

Securing commitment for greater recruitment of psychotherapists and counsellors

This remains our key campaigning objective, and we aim to build on the successes of the past year in 2021/22. We’ll continue to push for greater non-CBT IAPT recruitment, to ensure a range of therapies are available to people, regardless of where in the country they are.

We’ll also push for greater NHS recruitment of psychotherapists working with severe mental illness, and for a government strategy to deploy more child psychotherapists to meet the enormous and growing demand for children’s mental health services.

Securing changes to NICE depression guideline

With the final draft of the NICE guideline for depression in adults set to be published in November 2021 and the final version expected in May 2022, we will escalate our campaign to put pressure on NICE in the coming months. This issue is of paramount importance to the profession.

Ahead of the publication of the third and final draft of the guideline we’ll focus on securing political support once more for our campaign. After publication we’ll provide an individual and joint stakeholder response for the consultation.

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Regardless of the extent to which our concerns are addressed, when NICE publishes the final version of the guideline we’ll hold those responsible for implementing it to account on the key issue of patient choice.

Launching our report to improve treatment pathways for people with complex personality disorders Next year we’ll launch our health economics report demonstrating extreme cost inefficiencies in existing treatment pathways for people considered to have complex personality disorders. We’ll use it to help convince NHS commissioners to support long-term psychotherapy services for this group.

We jointly commissioned the report in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Holding events to break down NHS barriers

One of the major themes to emerge from our extensive work examining barriers to psychotherapy within the NHS has been the lack of preparation for NHS careers during therapists’ time as students and trainees. Therapists often qualify without having worked in NHS or other multidisciplinary settings, without a realistic sense of the experience required to find paid work in the NHS, and without the ability to speak the language of the NHS or properly understand referral pathways.

We plan to draw on the expertise of UKCP’s NHS-based therapists to create an event, targeted at students and trainees but open to all, that gives therapists the tools early on in their journeys to pursue the career that’s right for them and keep their options as open as possible.

Another theme to emerge from our research has been the problems created by a mutual lack of understanding between different psychological professions, especially clinical psychology. With this in mind, we’re going to hold an event aimed at breaking down some of these misunderstandings and focusing on the unique value different professions bring to mental healthcare.

Improving our communications

We want our communications to reach more psychotherapists, psychotherapeutic counsellors and people seeking therapy in the coming year. We’ll do this by launching our new monthly My Psychotherapy Career podcast, increasing the visibility of our members through PR work, making further improvements on our social media channels to better target audiences, and by creating new content.

We’ll measure our success by examining how many people visit our website and where they come from, and we’ll engage with various partners to help drive new users to our website.

Expanding our research capacity

We’ve lined up a partnership with the University of Sheffield to secure staff support to expand our capacity for conducting research. The research we’ll be conducting together will focus on supporting key UKCP policy goals. We’re also introducing a hub on our website focused on current research issues essential to the psychotherapy field and policy work. We plan to put out an open call for published research by members on key research themes.

Investing in research for policy campaigns

It’s critical that the arguments we make for policy change are underpinned by evidence. Thanks to our Research Working Group, our partnership with the University of Sheffield, and our Policy and Research Officer embedded in both areas of work, the connection between research and policy is as strong as ever at UKCP.

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Upcoming research initiatives that will directly support our campaigning include:

Enhancing the Practitioner Research Network

Following a change in leadership during the current year, we’ll work with the new leader of our Practitioner Research Network (PRN) to strengthen the network and recruit new members.

Migrating to the cloud

Given the move to more remote working and the need for better data security, over the next year we intend to move to cloud-based working. We’ll also make sure we do more to protect UKCP against cyberattacks by working towards the government’s Cyber Essential certificate.

Financial reports

Financial review

The attached Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet provide the results of our operations for the twelve months from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021.

Income for the year to September 2021 was £2,560k, up 3.25% on 2020. Total expenditure was £2,563k (down 4.4%) compared to £2,682k in 2020.

There is a break clause in the lease at 2 America Square in July 2022 and the Board is in consultation with the landlords as well as considering alternative options. No decision has been made at date of this report. If we vacate the office we will have to pay for dilapidations; a provision of £57k has been made towards this expense. Depreciation of leasehold improvements has also been accelerated to bring the net book value to zero by the break date.

A number of complex non-clinical complaints against Organisational Members and volunteers resulted in legal expenses being higher than usual this year. Procedures have been reviewed and updated to mitigate any future issues and we are drafting a Memorandum of Understanding for Organsational Members which we hope will enhance our relationship with them. A Governance Review was launched during the year and

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additional staff were engaged to assist with the process. We continued to work on the website and the investment has proved to be worthwhile as traffic has increased significantly.

There continue to be savings in all departments as in-person meeting and hearings have not resumed and our staff continue to work from home. Legal costs for the Complaints & Conduct Process have fallen and the funding provided has been reduced accordingly.

The majority of the charity’s income is from membership fees (£2,520k in 2021 and £2,400k in 2020). The trustees recognise that the charity’s reliance on this sole source of income makes the charity vulnerable to unforeseen fluctuations in membership. The trustees take this factor into account in setting levels of reserves to be held and also in putting appropriate strategic priority to maintaining and growing membership.

The Complaints and Conduct Process was reclassified as a Designated Fund on 1 October 2014. The number of cases heard each year fluctuates; cases planned for the following year are taken into account in the budget setting model and will continue to be monitored. The contribution from the general reserves has decreased, owing fewer cases being referred by the Professional Conduct Committee. Costs are monitored closely and managed to the best of our ability; there has been a considerable saving as a result of hearings being held online. Processes are under constant review to ensure we contain costs as far as we are able.

In an organisation so heavily dependent on voluntary effort, any analysis of expenditure by activity gives a distorted picture of the charity's costs. The charity continues to employ a small staff team, so most of our programmes rely on the commitment of very hard working volunteers. The many hours of work on The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy committees, standards, registration, regulation and quality assurance are not reflected in the columns of figures in the financial statements. The Board of Trustees takes this opportunity to thank all those who have given time to UKCP for the advancement of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling.

Some volunteers are paid a token amount in recognition of the time they spend on UKCP business including but not limited to carrying out assessments and reviewing or writing documents and procedures. These amounts are in no way meant to reimburse them at market rates.

Some Trustees presented lectures at the short courses held in conjunction with Imperial College and received payment for this contribution. These amounts are disclosed in note 11 to the accounts.

All trustees give their time voluntarily, with the exception of the Chair as explained in note 8; no expenses were reclaimed from the charity this year.

Our balance sheet continues to reflect our stability with cash reserves in excess of our target. Current liabilities include deferred income of £141k, reflecting membership income received in advance of the 2021/22 financial year.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Trustee’s annual report

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Investment policy and performance

The trustees’ investment policy was put in place to ensure that UKCP’s cash is invested in the most effective and secure manner.

The policy states that the objectives of investments are:

The policy also details the trustees’ position on risk, ethical investments and liquidity.

The Finance, Risk and Audit Committee has decided to invest reserves in the F&C CAF Socially Responsible Portfolio. The investments paid out dividends of £4k during the year, a yield of 1.5%. The investments have risen in value by 67% since their purchase in February 2016.

Reserves policy and going concern

The key threat to our income is a drop in membership renewals and/or a reduction in new members joining. Despite our initial concerns in the light of Covid-19, the membership renewals for 2020/21 were more successful than ever. We are, therefore, reasonably confident that our income is secure. Much of our expenditure is within our control. The Board is satisfied that there are no material uncertainties of which they are aware. The Board has a reasonable expectation that the Charity will remain a going concern for at least 12 months from approving these accounts.

The trustees have a reserves policy which requires that reserves be maintained at a level which ensures that the Charity’s core activities could continue during a period of unforeseen difficulty.

The Complaints and Conduct Process has a separate reserves policy. A proportion of these reserves must be maintained in a readily realisable form.

The Charity’s income and expenditure are both highly predictable in timing and amounts. Reserves are calculated by reference to the risks the Charity faces and the costs of aligning expenses with income if required, or to meet the risks of unplanned costs.

The trustees set reserves targets at the beginning of the financial year and monitor the actual results at each Board meeting. The current reserves target for the general fund has been increased to £350k (from £325k). The target ensures funds are available to cover any outstanding rent and operational costs as well as ensuring staff are adequately remunerated should we have to cease operations.

The free reserves at 30 September 2021 are £630,747 (2020: 534,850) (unrestricted funds less net book value of tangible fixed assets). The excess free reserves of £280,747 are being carried forward to the 2021/22 financial year.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Trustee’s annual report

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Management is working on plans to utilise these funds in the most effective way. A long term strategy to improve our internal processes and deliver an improved experience for members members is being prepared and will be presented in due course.

The target for the Complaints and Conduct Process fund is £55k. This is set taking account of potential litigation or risk and insurances held against these. Expenditure, other than operational costs, is dependent on the number of cases accepted and this varies from year to year. The budget setting process takes the number of cases accepted but not heard into account so reserves at the end of a financial year may be higher than the target to make allowance for expected future legal costs.

Related parties and relationships with other organisations

The Charity is a membership organisation and has, in the ordinary course of its activities, transactions with its members individually and with groups of members in the Colleges. Colleges are not separate legal entities and facilitate engagement and involvement with members.

Remuneration policy

The Charity sets the pay of its staff and key management personnel using industry benchmarks, performance reviews and appraisals. UKCP has a Remuneration, Appointments and Performance Management Committee (RAPMC) which is responsible for re-evaluating decisions to remunerate trustees, committee chairs and college personnel on an annual basis and reports their findings to the UKCP Board of Trustees. The RAPMC is currently reviewing all contracts for services to ensure they are compliant with current legislation. The Board approves any annual increases and changes to the Chief Executive’s remuneration package, as recommended by the RAPMC.

Fundraising

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy does not engage in public fundraising and does not use professional fundraisers or commercial participators. The Charity nevertheless observes the relevant fundraising regulations and codes. During the year there was no non-compliance with these regulations and codes and the Charity received no complaints relating to its fundraising practice.

Structure, governance and management

Constitution

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 30 September 1996 and registered as a charity on 8 October 1996.

The company was established under a memorandum of association which established the objects (see page 4) and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its articles of association.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Trustee’s annual report

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Organisational structure and decision making

The Board of Trustees, which is responsible to UKCP members and the Charity Commission, oversees the fulfilment of our charitable objectives. A number of committees report to the Board or to the Executive Committee, which oversees ongoing work.

On appointment, each trustee is asked to declare any conflicts of interest. They are also asked annually to declare any interests , ensuring the UKCP Register of Interests is accurate and up-to-date.

We give our new trustees an induction pack outlining the roles and responsibilities of being a trustee as well as the Charity Commission’s ‘Charity trustee: what’s involved’ (CC3a) and ‘The essential trustee: what you need to know’ (CC3). We also aim to meet any training needs for new trustees that will help them carry out their role.

Risk management

Our Board reviews the risks facing UKCP on an annual basis via a Risk Register. The register covers strategic, operational, financial, human resources, technological and reputational risks. The risks we have identified are prioritised in terms of potential impact and likelihood of occurrence and the trustees confirm that systems or procedures are in place to mitigate significant risks. Five of the main risks that the trustees have identified and the strategies for mitigating these are:

Statement of responsibilities of the trustees

The trustees (who are also directors of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Trustee’s annual report

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They 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 other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

The trustees’ annual report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.

The Trustees’ Annual Report has been approved by the trustees on 11 February 2022 and signed on their behalf by

M Pollecoff

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Independent auditor’s report

To the members of

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 30 September 2021 which comprise the statement of financial activities, balance sheet, statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Independent auditor’s report

To the members of

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Other Information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees’ annual report. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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Independent auditor’s report

To the members of

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the statement of trustees’ responsibilities set out in the trustees’ annual report, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud are set out below.

Capability of the audit in detecting irregularities

In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:

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Independent auditor’s report

To the members of

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Judith Miller (Senior statutory auditor)

1 April 2022

for and on behalf of Sayer Vincent LLP, Statutory Auditor Invicta House, 108-114 Golden Lane, LONDON, EC1Y 0TL

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Note
Income from:
Donations
2
Charitable activities
Registration fees and subscriptions
3
Other trading activities
4
Investments
5
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
Improving access
Engaging better
Maintain standards of excellence
Collaborating for success
Research
Total expenditure
6
Net gains on investments
14
7
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
19
Net expenditure before net gains on
investments
Net income/(expenditure) for the year and
net movement in funds		 2021
Unrestricted
£
-
2,520,547
32,941
4,202		 2021
Restricted
£
2,425
-
-
-		 2021
Total
£
2,425
2,520,547
32,941
4,202		 Unrestricted
£
-
2,400,563
64,898
5,135		 Restricted
£
9,506
-
-
-		 2020
Total
£
9,506
2,400,563
64,898
5,135
2,557,690 2,425 2,560,115 2,470,596 9,506 2,480,102
376,761
385,797
1,416,179
224,230
157,821		 2,425
-
-
-
-		 379,186
385,797
1,416,179
224,230
157,821		 410,428
399,836
1,493,072
220,909
148,148		 9,506
-
-
-		 419,934
399,836
1,493,072
220,909
148,148
2,560,788 2,425 2,563,213 2,672,393 9,506 2,681,899
(3,098)
61,163		 -
-		 (3,098)
61,163		 (201,797)
1,521		 -
-		 (201,797)
1,521
58,065
764,655		 -
-		 58,065
764,655		 (200,276)
964,931		 -
-		 (200,276)
964,931
822,720 - 822,720 764,655 - 764,655

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 19 to the financial statemens.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Balance sheet

Company no. 03258939

For the year ended 30 September 2021
Note
Fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets
13
Investments
14
Current assets
Debtors
15
Cash at bank and in hand
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
16
Net current assets
Net assets
18
The funds of the charity
19
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
General funds
Total charity funds
 £
174,004
731,404		 2021
£
89,876
335,014		 2020
£
169,942
273,851
424,890
397,830		 443,793
135,927
738,353
905,408
(507,578)		 874,280
(553,418)
320,862
822,720 764,655
-
102,097
720,623		 -
59,863
704,792
822,720 764,655

Approved by the trustees on 11 February 2022 and signed on their behalf by:

Martin Pollecoff David Fitzgerald Chair Treasurer

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Statement of cash flows

For the year ended 30 September 2021

Net income/(expenditure) for the reporting period
(as per the statement of financial activities)
Depreciation charges
Gains on investments
Dividends, interest and rent from investments
Increase in debtors
(Decrease)/increase in creditors
Net cash used in operating activities
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
Net cash provided by investing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Purchase of fixed assets
Cash flows from operating activities		 £
£
58,065
81,764
(61,163)
(4,202)
(38,077)
(45,840)
(9,453)
4,202
(1,698)
2,504
(6,949)
738,353
731,404
2021		 £
£
58,065
81,764
(61,163)
(4,202)
(38,077)
(45,840)
(9,453)
4,202
(1,698)
2,504
(6,949)
738,353
731,404
2021		 £
£
(200,276)
34,989
(1,521)
(5,135)
(1,844)
93,296
(80,491)
5,135
-
5,135
(75,356)
813,709
738,353
2020		 £
£
(200,276)
34,989
(1,521)
(5,135)
(1,844)
93,296
(80,491)
5,135
-
5,135
(75,356)
813,709
738,353
2020
4,202
(1,698)		 5,135
-
(6,949)
738,353		 (75,356)
813,709
731,404 738,353

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

1 Accounting policies

a) Statutory information

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is incorporated in the United Kingdom.

The registered office address and principal place of business is America House, 2 America Square, London, EC3N 2LU.

b) 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) - (Charities SORP FRS 102), The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy or note.

In applying the financial reporting framework, the trustees have made a number of subjective judgements, for example in respect of significant accounting estimates. Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The nature of the estimation means the actual outcomes could differ from those estimates. Any significant estimates and judgements affecting these financial statements are detailed within the relevant accounting policy below.

The income and expenditure of colleges is included within the charity's financial statements, as required by paragraph 25.9 of the SORP. Part of the charity's general funds are held in bank accounts controlled by colleges and faculties. At the end of the year the extent of such funds was £9,244 (2020: £13,703).

c) Public benefit entity

The charitable company meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102.

d) Going concern

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern. Further information is included in the trustees' annual report.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

e) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from registration fees and subscriptions is recognised evenly over the registration year.

f) Interest receivable

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.

g) Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

h) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

Resources expended are allocated to the particular activity where the cost relates directly to that activity. However, the cost of overall direction and administration of each activity, comprising the salary and overhead costs of the central function, is apportioned on the following basis which are an estimate, based on staff time, of the amount attributable to each activity.

Where information about the aims, objectives and projects of the charity is provided to potential beneficiaries, the costs associated with this publicity are allocated to charitable expenditure.

2021 2020
Improving access 13.66% 14.90%
Engaging better 13.90% 14.35%
Maintain standards of excellence 51.02% 51.66%
Collaborating for success 8.08% 7.80%
Research 5.69% 5.23%
Governance costs 7.65% 6.06%

Governance costs are the costs associated with the governance arrangements of the charity. These costs are associated with constitutional and statutory requirements and include any costs associated with the strategic management of the charity’s activities. These are apportioned over each area of activity in proportion of the total costs of that activity.

j) Tangible fixed assets

Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £1,500. Depreciation costs are allocated to activities on the basis of the use of the related assets in those activities. Assets are reviewed for impairment if circumstances indicate their carrying value may exceed their net realisable value and value in use. Major components are treated as a separate asset where they have significantly different patterns of consumption of economic benefits and are depreciated separately over its useful life.

Where fixed assets have been revalued, any excess between the revalued amount and the historic cost of the asset will be shown as a revaluation reserve in the balance sheet.

Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rates in use are as follows:

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

1 Accounting policies (continued)

k) Listed investments

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date using the closing quoted market price. Any change in fair value will be recognised in the statement of financial activities. Investment gains and losses, whether realised or unrealised, are combined and shown in the heading “Net gains/(losses) on investments” in the statement of financial activities. The charity does not acquire put options, derivatives or other complex financial instruments.

l) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

m) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

n) Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

o) Financial instruments

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 measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

p) Pensions

The charity contributes to personal pension plans of its employees. The pension charge represents the amounts payable by the charity to such plans in the financial year.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

2
UKCP Bursary Fund
Total donations
3
Registration fees and subscriptions
Total income from charitable activities
4
Advertising Income
Conferences and events
Other income
5
Interest income
Investment income
Income from charitable activities
Income from other trading activities
Income from investments
All income from charitable activities is unrestricted.
All income from other trading activities is unrestricted.
Income from donations
All income from donations is restricted.		 2021
Total
£
2,425		 2020
Total
£
9,506
2,425 9,506
2021
Total
£
2,520,547		 2020
Total
£
2,400,563
2,520,547 2,400,563
2021
Total
£
25,494
-
7,447		 2020
Total
£
46,358
16,336
2,204
32,941 64,898
2021
Total
£
71
4,131		 2020
Total
£
931
4,204
4,202 5,135

All income from investments is unrestricted.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

6a Analysis of expenditure (current year)

Charitable activities

Operational staff costs(excl' CCP staff costs)
Premises and other operational costs
Committees and Board of Trustees
Communications
Governance and membership administration
Colleges
Research
Faculties
Complaints and Conduct Process(incl' staff costs)
Development projects
Governance costs
Total expenditure 2021
Total expenditure 2020		 Improving
Access
£
128,985
82,056
879
54,609
16,346
8,355
-
-
22,457
36,450		 Engaging
better
£
139,168
88,535
879
76,452
16,346
8,355
-
-
22,457
4,050		 Maintain
standards of
excellence
£
463,329
294,756
5,275
32,765
57,212
50,129
-
-
404,223
-		 Collaborating
for success
£
98,436
62,622
879
32,765
8,173
4,177
-
-
-
-		 Research
£
49,218
31,311
440
21,843
-
4,177
38,742
-
-
-		 Governance
costs
£
74,676
47,506
440
-
65,385
8,355
-
-
-
-		 2021
Total
£
953,812
606,786
8,792
218,434
163,462
83,548
38,742
-
449,137
40,500		 2020
Total
£
904,985
471,257
18,461
254,341
135,804
89,388
-
9,545
684,109
114,009
350,137
29,049		 356,242
29,555		 1,307,689
108,490		 207,052
17,178		 145,731
12,090		 196,362
(196,362)		 2,563,213
-		 2,681,899
-
379,186 385,797 1,416,179 224,230 157,821 - 2,563,213 2,681,899
419,934 399,836 1,493,072 220,909 148,148 -

The Research faculty was closed on 30 September 2020. Research activities are now managed by the staff team with outsourced support as required. The Faculty for the Psychological Health of Children was closed on 30 September 2020 and the activities are now included in the College for Children and Young People.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

6b Analysis of expenditure (prior year)

Charitable activities

Operational staff costs(excl' CCP staff costs)
Premises and other operational costs
Committees and Board of Trustees
Communications
Governance and membership administration
Colleges
Faculties
Complaints and Conduct Process(incl' staff costs)
Development projects
Governance costs
Total expenditure 2020		 Improving
Access
£
122,173
63,620
1,846
63,585
13,580
8,939
477
34,205
85,507		 Engaging
better
£
141,781
73,830
1,846
89,019
13,580
8,939
477
34,205
11,401		 Maintain
standards of
excellence
£
407,245
212,066
11,077
38,151
47,532
53,633
3,818
615,699
11,401		 Collaborating
for success
£
102,565
53,409
1,846
38,151
6,790
4,469
-
-
-		 Research
£
64,857
33,773
923
25,435
-
4,469
3,818
-
5,700		 Governance
costs
£
66,364
34,559
923
-
54,322
8,939
955
-
-		 2020
Total
£
904,985
471,257
18,461
254,341
135,804
89,388
9,545
684,109
114,009
393,932
26,002		 375,078
24,758		 1,400,622
92,450		 207,230
13,679		 138,975
9,173		 166,062
(166,062)		 2,681,899
-
419,934 399,836 1,493,072 220,909 148,148 - 2,681,899

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

7 Net income/(expenditure) for the year This is stated after charging/(crediting):

Net income/(expenditure) for the year
This is stated after charging/(crediting):
2021 2020
£ £
Depreciation
owned by the charity 81,764 34,989
Operating lease rentals:
property 141,841 141,841
Auditor's remuneration (excluding VAT):
audit 8,900 8,700
Loss on disposal of assets - -
Trustees' remuneration (see note 8) 8,000 8,000
Trustees' expenses - 3,179

8 Trustees' remuneration

During the year honoraria were paid to the following trustees and officers of the charity:

2021 2020
£ £
M Pollecoff 8,000 8,000

Payment of the Chair's honorarium has been agreed by the Charity Commission.

Staff costs were as follows:

Staff costs were as follows:
Salaries and wages
Employer pension contributions
Temporary staff costs
Social security costs
Redundancy and termination costs		 2021
£
1,037,145
107,761
84,924
3,708
3,393		 2020
£
994,287
96,322
83,023
-
-
1,236,931 1,173,632

Of the £1,236,931 staff costs (2020: £1,173,632), £339,912 (2020: £335,547) relates to the Complaints and Conduct Process Designated Fund.

The following number of employees received employee benefits in excess of £60,000 (excluding employer national insurance and employer pension contributions) during the year between:

2021 2020
No. No.
£90,000 - £99,999 1 1

The total employee benefits (including employer national insurance and employer pension contributions) of the key management personnel were £283,644 (2020: £273,796).

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

10 Staff numbers

The average number of employees (head count based on number of staff employed) during the year was as follows:

follows:
Professional and other services
Administration		 2021
No.
28
1		 2020
No.
27
2
29 29

11 Related party transactions

During the year, honorarium payments were made to one trustee of the charity. This is disclosed in note 8 to these accounts.

Some members are paid a token amount for specific pieces of work undertaken on behalf of the Charity, although these amounts are in no way meant to reimburse them at market rates. Members and trustees receive reimbursement for travel expenditure whilst on charity business which are all part of the normal course of business. There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.

During the year, an amount of £35,750 (2020: £36,850) was paid to Kelsey Publishing Limited for advertising in Psychologies Magazine. Suzy Walker, a former Trustee, was the editor of the magazine. The contract was awarded before Ms Walker was appointed a Trustee.

During the year some Trustees were paid for presenting online lectures. Payments were made to M Pollecoff £750 (2020: £750), D Charura £750 (2020: £500), B Kahr £1,250 (2020: £nil) and J Rosenfeld £nil (2020: £1,000).

12 Taxation

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

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

13
Cost
Depreciation
Net book value
Disposals in year
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
Charge for the year
At the start of the year
Additions in year
At the end of the year
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
Tangible fixed assets		 Short term
leasehold
property
£
181,980
-		 Furniture,
fittings and
equipment
£
99,284
-		 Computer
equipment
£
32,502
1,698		 Total
£
313,766
1,698
181,980 99,284 34,200 315,464
56,112
68,656
-		 64,234
8,762
-		 23,478
4,346
-		 143,824
81,764
-
124,768 72,996 27,824 225,588
57,212 26,288 6,376 89,876
125,868 35,050 9,024 169,942

All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.

14 Listed investments

Listed investments
Investments comprise:
Historical cost
Market value at the start of the year
Net gain on revaluation
Market value at the end of the year
UK Common investment funds		 2021
£
273,851
61,163		 2020
£
272,330
1,521
335,014 273,851
2021
£
335,014		 2020
£
273,851
2021
£
200,000		 2020
£
200,000

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

15
16
17
Balance at the beginning of the year
Amount released to income in the year
Amount deferred in the year
Balance at the end of the year
18a
Designated
funds
£
-
-
102,097
-
102,097
Trade creditors
Other taxation and social security
Prepayments
Debtors
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade debtors
Other debtors
Other creditors
Deferred income (note 17)
Deferred income comprises membership income for 2021-2022.
Tangible fixed assets
Investments
Current assets
Creditors due within 1 year
Net assets at the end of the year
Analysis of net assets between funds (current year)
Deferred income
Accruals		 15
16
17
Balance at the beginning of the year
Amount released to income in the year
Amount deferred in the year
Balance at the end of the year
18a
Designated
funds
£
-
-
102,097
-
102,097
Trade creditors
Other taxation and social security
Prepayments
Debtors
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade debtors
Other debtors
Other creditors
Deferred income (note 17)
Deferred income comprises membership income for 2021-2022.
Tangible fixed assets
Investments
Current assets
Creditors due within 1 year
Net assets at the end of the year
Analysis of net assets between funds (current year)
Deferred income
Accruals		 2021
£
2,197
42,585
129,222		 2020
£
100
37,738
98,089
174,004 135,927
2021
£
113,539
27,613
100,475
124,944
141,007		 2020
£
158,874
48,715
49,629
137,995
158,205
507,578 553,418
2021
£
158,205
(158,205)
141,007		 2020
£
134,966
(134,966)
158,205
141,007 158,205
General
funds
£
89,876
335,014
803,311
(507,578)		 Total funds
£
89,876
335,014
905,408
(507,578)
102,097 720,623 822,720

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

18b Analysis of net assets between funds (prior year)

Tangible fixed assets
Investments
Creditors due within 1 year
Current assets
Net assets at the end of the year		 Designated
funds
£
-
-
59,863
-		 General
funds
£
169,942
273,851
814,417
(553,418)		 Total funds
£
169,942
273,851
874,280
(553,418)
59,863 704,792 764,655

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

19a Movements in funds (current year)

Movements in funds (current year)
Restricted funds:
UKCP Bursary Fund
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds:
Designated funds:
UKCP Bursary Fund
Complaints and Conduct Process
Total designated funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 At 1 October
2020
£
-		 Incoming
resources
and gain
£
2,425		 Outgoing
resources
and losses
£
(2,425)		 Transfers
in/(out)
£
-		 At 30
September
2021
£
-
- 2,425 (2,425) - -
3,196
56,667		 -
493,446		 (38,075)
(449,137)		 36,000
-		 1,121
100,976
59,863 493,446 (487,212) 36,000 102,097
704,792 2,125,407 (2,073,576) (36,000) 720,623
764,655 2,618,853 (2,560,788) - 822,720
764,655 2,621,278 (2,563,213) - 822,720

Purposes of restricted funds

The UKCP Bursary Fund was created to award bursaries to UKCP trainees in their final years of training. Donations have been received from members and the general public. Direct costs are attributed to the fund.

Purposes of designated funds

The Complaints and Conduct Process designated fund is funded from membership subscriptions and the general fund. The fund is used to cover the costs of operating the Complaints and Conduct department and any related expenses. Funds are transferred from general reserves to cover expenses during the year.

The UKCP Bursary Fund was created to award bursaries to UKCP trainees in their final years of training. £36,000 from general funds was transferred to the designated fund during the year. Funds not awarded are carried forward to future years.

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 September 2021

19b Movements in funds (prior year)

Movements in funds (prior year)
Restricted funds:
UKCP Bursary Fund
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds:
Designated funds:
UKCP Bursary Fund
Complaints and Conduct Process
Total designated funds
Total funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds		 At 1 October
2019
£
-		 Incoming
resources
and gains
£
9,506		 Outgoing
resources
and losses
£
(9,506)		 Transfers
in/(out)
£
-		 At 30
September
2020
£
-
- 9,506 (9,506) - -
-
224,675		 -
516,101		 (16,804)
(684,109)		 20,000
-		 3,196
56,667
224,675 516,101 (700,913) 20,000 59,863
740,256 1,956,016 (1,971,480) (20,000) 704,792
964,931 2,472,117 (2,672,393) - 764,655
964,931 2,481,623 (2,681,899) - 764,655

Purposes of designated funds

The Complaints and Conduct Process designated fund is funded from membership subscriptions and the general fund. The fund is used to cover the costs of operating the Complaints and Conduct department and any related expenses. Funds are transferred from general reserves to cover expenses during the year.

20 Operating lease commitments

The charity's total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases is as follows for each of the following periods:

Less than one year
Between one and five years		 2021
£
147,136
-
Land and		 2020
£
181,091
147,136
buildings
147,136 328,227

21 Legal status of the charity

The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is limited to £1.

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