## The Turning Point Counselling Service
Charity number 1105857
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
|**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 - 11|
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2023
## **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 Alan Hoggard Chair Christine Hood Chris Hartley David Palethorpe Vice Chair
## **Treasurer**
Janet Cheema
## **Chaplin**
Judith Grandage
## **Staff**
Ellen Martin - Counselling Co-Ordinator Claire Summerscales - Administrator
## **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 2023
## **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**
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 2022/23 twenty volunteer counsellors provided 1011 (1104) sessions of counselling to 87 (69) clients. In the past year we have worked with Calderdale Cares partnership to provide counselling to key workers.
We continue to offer a free 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 non-judgemental way.
During the year we worked in two schools (Rastrick High School & Hipperholme & Lightcliffe) were we were able to support young people aged 14+. We offered 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 the schools and a grant from Rastrick Big Local
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 the trainees with college work, client work and personal challenges to enable which enables the students to achieve their potential and offer the best possible service to our community. We offer our counsellors specialist training e.g., supporting those struggling with sexual trauma and working with people facing financial difficulties. In March 2023 we had 12 volunteer counsellors 8 of which are trainees.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees by Alan Hoggard …...........................................
Date: 13/10/2023
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Turning Point Counselling Service
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2023, which are set out on pages 6 to 11.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Roger Ellis
Date: 06/09/2023
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2023
|Notes
2023
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants
(1)
8,000
Donations Received Clients
(2)
5,584
Donations Other Individuals
1,696
HMRC Gift Aid
1,368
Donations from Organisations
(3)
810
Earned income
(4)
5,820
Fund Generation - Fund Raising
682
Bank Interest
50
Other Income
83
-
**Total receipts**
24,093
**Payments**
Staff Salaries
(6)
21,821
Supervision Fees
(7)
2,823
Calderdale Counselling
450
Counsellor Travel Costs
1,409
Counsellor Training
Young People Counselling
-
DBS Checks
111
Rent
4,400
Service Charge
960
Brighouse Bid Levy
-
Printing
133
Office Stationery
30
Telephone and Fax
359
Website
100
Equipment
65
Repairs and Renewals
240
Cleaning
155
Insurance
428
Refreshments
483
Subscriptions
463
Bank Charges
72
-
**Total payments**
34,502
(10,409)
Transfers between funds
-
**Net movement in funds after transfers**
(10,409)
**Fund balances brought forward**
36,067
**Fund balances carried forward**
(2)
25,658
**Net receipts / (payments)**|2023
Restricted
funds
£
32,765
-
-
32,765
8,359
-
-
-
985
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9,344
23,421
-
23,421
2,788
26,209|2023
Total
funds
£
40,765
5,584
1,696
1,368
810
5,820
682
50
83
56,858
30,180
2,823
450
1,409
985
111
4,400
960
-
133
30
359
100
65
240
155
428
483
463
72
43,846
13,012
-
13,012
38,855
51,867|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
960
118
188
58
377
500
599
-
57
428
485
366
96|
||||40,996|
||||(19)
-|
||||(19)
38,874|
||||38,855|
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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 2023
2023
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
30,103
Cash in hand
(3,367)
**Total cash funds**
26,736
**Other monetary assets**
Debtors
**Less: Liabilities**
Creditors|2023
Restricted
£
22,156
4,053
26,209|2023
Total
£
52,259
686
52,945
-
743
52,202|2022
Total
£
38,770
309|
||||39,079|
||||320
544|
||||38,855|
## **Approval of the accounts**
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 13/10/2023
Signed: ……………...………….…. (Trustee)
Name: Alan Hoggard
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2023
## **1 Accounting**
## **Basis of**
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.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
|**2 Grants**
Albert Hunt
Beaders
Benefactor Trust
Brighouse Jigsaw Festival
CFFC Grant
Lloyds Bank
Local Giving
Rastrick Big Local
The West Trust
VCI|2023
Unrestricted
funds
£
500
7,500
-
-
8,000|2023
Restricted
funds
£
15,250
2,250
14,290
975
32,765|2023
2022
Total
Total
funds
funds
£
£
£2,000
£250
£15,250
£2,250
£14,290
£5,000
£0
£1,000
£500
£500
£975
£7,500
£10,000
£7,440
40,765
26,190|
|---|---|---|---|
## **3 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.
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2023
|**4 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
**5 Earned Income**
Calderdale Wellbeing
Hipperholme & Lightcliffe secondary School
Rastrick High|2023
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
460
250
-
100
-
810
2023
Unrestricted
funds
£
600
4,320
900
6,730|2023
Restricted
funds
£
-
2023
Restricted
funds
£
-|2023
Total
funds
£
£460
£250
£100
810
2023
Total
funds
£
£600
£4,320
£900
6,730|2022
Total
funds
£
£200
£1,250
£250
£360
£250
£500
£100
£25
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2,935|
|||||2022
Total
funds
£
£3,020|
|||||6,580|
Frem September 2021 to May 2022 Turning Point Carried out work for Healthy Minds and in particular Calderdale Wellbeing. This service was offering counselling to key workers following the pandemic. Counsellors who undertook this work were paid an hourly fee
From April 2022 to December 2022 the counselling co-ordinator worked in schools and this was funded by the schools themselves rastrick high was topped up by a grant from Rastrick Big Local.
## **6 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
## **7 Supervision Fees**
Counsellors volunteer their time free of charge, however the charity does reimburse part of the cost of
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## The Turning Point Counselling Service
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2023
|**8**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted Funds**
**Restricted Funds**
Young Peoples Fund
Capacity Building
Benefactor trust|**Opening**
**Balance**
**£**
36,067
2,788
**38,855**|**Receipts**
**£**
24,093
3,225
14,290
15,250
**56,858**|**Payments**
**£**
34,502
1,960
3,572
3,812
**43,846**|**Account**
**Transfers**
**£**
-
-
**0**|**Closing**
**Balance**
**£**
**25,658**
**4,053**
**10,718**
**11,438**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**51,867**|
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