## The Turning Point Counselling Service
Charity number 1105857
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2022
The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2022
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 4|
|Examiner's report|5|
|Receipts and payments account|6|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8|
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates**
Ursula Blagg Appointed Nov 21 Alan Hoggard Chair Christine Hood Pearl Horner Secretary Resigned July 21 Chris Hartley David Palethorpe Vice Chair
## **Charity number**
The charity registered as a charity number 1105857 on 14th September 2004
**Principal address Bankers** 16 Church Lane CAF Bank Ltd Brighouse 25 Kings Hill Ave. HD6 1AT Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ
## **Independent examiner**
Roger Ellis
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is governed by a constitution adopted 06/06/2002 as amended on 23/08/2004 as amended on 08/07/2013 as amended on 20/1/2022
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The preservation and promotion of good health and well-being for the benefit of the public by offering a counselling service based on the christian ethos to anyone over the age of 14 years, in an effort to relieve emotional and mental suffering. The provision of ongoing development training to qualified counsellors and those working towards their professional qualification to help further this object and the establishment of other services linked to the prime objectives when a relevant need and adequate resources are identified.
## **The charity's main activities**
We are a charity committed to supporting individuals suffering mental health and emotional difficulties within the local Brighouse community and throughout Calderdale. We endeavour to be accessible to all who approach us offering a compassionate service, tailored to an individual’s need in an environment where mutual respect and courtesy are demonstrated by both counsellor and client.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of health and education).
## **Achievements and performance**
During 2021/22 we along with many organisations transitioned out of the covid pandemic and were able to return to ofering a face to face counselling service which is the core of our work
Our in-house counselling service provides clients with a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space in which to explore stressful and/or distressing experiences. The clients we work with are often struggling with high anxiety and the coping tools and strategies they learn during counselling sessions can be life changing. In 2021/22 we have provided 1104 sessions of counselling to 69 clients. In the past year we have worked with calderdale cares partnership to provide counselling to key workers
In January 21 we recieved funding and were able to expand our telephone support service offered to any one who contacts us though the help line and includes those on the waiting list for counselling. It enables people to offload their worries whilst they wait for more consistent support from a counsellor. This service is invaluable especially for those who are suicidal, and the clients we talk with have expressed how grateful they are to have someone who will listen in a compassionate and nonjudgemental way.
The work we do at Rastrick High School is for young people aged 14+ and offers students a safe place for them to be heard as themselves, away from their peers and the pressures of adolescence and social media. For many young people, this environment is their only reprieve in difficult circumstances both at home and at school. This work was funded by a grant from the Brighouse Jigsaw Festival
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
Our placement counsellors include students from Leeds Beckett, Huddersfield University and Leeds City College. They must gain 100 hours one-to-one counselling experience to fully qualify as a counsellor. At The Turning Point, we support the students in both a professional and personal capacity. The Turning Point supports college work, client work and personal challenges to enable the students to achieve their potential and offer the best possible service to our community. We also offer our counsellors specialist training e.g., supporting those struggling with sexual trauma and working with people facing financial difficulties. In 2021/22 we had 15 volunteer counsellors 10 of which are trainees.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees by Alan Hoggard …...........................................
Date: 12 September 2022
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2022
|Notes
2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants
(1)
13,750
Donations Received Clients
(2)
4,455
Donations Other Individuals
1,018
HMRC Gift Aid
3,109
Donations from Organisations
(3)
1,685
Earned income
(4)
3,020
Fund Generation - Fund Raising
158
Bank Interest
6
Other Income
86
-
**Total receipts**
27,287
**Payments**
Staff Salaries
(6)
14,861
Supervision Fees
(7)
1,606
Calderdale Counselling
2,295
Counsellor Travel Costs
534
Counsellor Training
451
Young People Counselling
-
DBS Checks
112
Rent
4,320
Brighouse Bid Levy
118
Service Charge
860
Printing
188
Postage and Carriage
22
Office Stationery
36
Telephone and Fax
227
Website
500
Equipment
599
Cleaning
57
Insurance
358
Refreshments
485
Subscriptions
366
Bank Charges
96
-
**Total payments**
28,091
(804)
Transfers between funds
-
**Net movement in funds after transfers**
(804)
**Fund balances brought forward**
36,871
**Fund balances carried forward**
(2)
36,067
**Net receipts / (payments)**|2022
Restricted
funds
£
12,440
1,250
-
13,690
11,205
500
-
-
-
400
-
480
-
100
-
-
-
150
-
-
-
70
-
-
-
12,905
785
-
785
2,003
2,788|2022
Total
funds
£
26,190
4,455
1,018
3,109
2,935
3,020
158
6
86
40,977
26,066
2,106
2,295
534
451
400
112
4,800
118
960
188
22
36
377
500
599
57
428
485
366
96
40,996
(19)
-
(19)
38,874
38,855|2020
Total
funds
£
22,742
2,513
1,232
3,310
11
56|
|---|---|---|---|
||||29,864|
||||18,387
576
150
202
4,800
880
21
561
568
428
217
240
69|
||||27,099|
||||2,765
-|
||||2,765
36,109|
||||38,874|
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|The Turning Point Counselling Service
Statement of assets and liabilities||||
|---|---|---|---|
|as at 2022
2022
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
35,982
Cash in hand
309
**Total cash funds**
36,291
**Other monetary assets**
Debtors
**Less: Liabilities**
Creditors|2022
Restricted
£
2,788
-
2,788|2022
Total
£
38,770
309
39,079
320
543
38,856|2021
Total
£
39,146
92|
||||39,238|
||||363|
||||38,875|
## **Approval of the accounts**
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 12 September 2022
Signed: ……………...………….…. (Trustee)
Name: Alan Hoggard
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Endowment funds represent those assets which must be held permanently by the charity, principally investments. Income arising on the endowment funds can be used in accordance with the objects of the charity and is included as unrestricted income unless restrictions have been imposed by the donor. Any capital gains or losses arising on the investments form part of the fund. Investment management charges and legal advice relating to the fund are charged against the fund.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
|**1 Grants**
The West Trust
CFFC Grant
Covid-19 Response
Calder Manual Draw
Local Giving
Beaders
Albert Hunt
VCI
Lloyds Bank|2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
10,000
-
-
-
500
250
2,000
-
1,000
-
13,750|2022
Restricted
funds
£
5,000
7,440
12,440|2022
2021
Total
Total
funds
funds
£
£
£10,000
£7,000
£5,000
£1,000
£9,742
£5,000
£500
£250
£2,000
£7,440
£1,000
26,190
22,742|
|---|---|---|---|
## **2 Donations Received Clients**
Clients are asked at their initial meeting to sign up to a weekly contribution of at least £10 towards the cost of their counselling. So that nobody is excluded on the grounds of hardship clients who are unable to afford £10 a week are assisted in accessing a hardship fund to make up the shortfall. All clients who are able are encouraged to sign a gift aid declaration.
|**3 Donations from Organisations**
Bailiff Bridge School
Brighouse Jigsaw Festival
Hudds Pennine Rotary Club
St Johns Church Rastrick
St Matthews Church Rastrick
St Pauls Birkenshaw
Upper Edge Baptist Church
Other Donations|2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
200
-
250
360
250
500
100
25
1,685|2022
Restricted
funds
£
1,250
1,250|2022
2021
Total
Total
funds
funds
£
£
£200
£1,250
£2,500
£250
£360
£360
£250
£250
£500
£100
£200
£25
-
2,935
3,310|
|---|---|---|---|
## **4 Earned Income**
Frem September 2021 Turning Point Carried out work for Healthy Minds and in particular the calderdale cares for us team. This service was offering counselling to key workers followingg the pandemic. Counsellors who undertook this work were paid an hourly fee
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 March 2022
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