## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

Charity number 1105857 

## Annual Report and Financial Statements 

## for the year ended 31 March 2024 

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The Turning Point Counselling Service 

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024 

|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|3 to 5|
|Examiner's report|6|
|Receipts and payments account|7|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|8|
|Notes to the accounts|9 - 11|



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## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024 

## **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** 

Alan Hoggard Christine Hood Chris Hartley David Palethorpe Ursula Blagg 

Chair 

Vice Chair 

## **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**|**Bankers**||
|---|---|---|---|
|16 Church Lane|CAF Bank Ltd|Virgin Money||
|Brighouse|25 Kings Hill Ave.|12 Bradford Road|3 to|
|HD6 1AT|West Malling|Cleckheaton||
||Kent|BD19 3RJ|6|
||ME19 4JQ|||
||||7|
|**Independent examiner**||||
|Roger Ellis|||8|
|**Structure, governance and management**|||9 -|



## **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 2024 

## **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 2023/24 eighteen volunteer counsellors provided 1170 (1011) sessions of counselling to 76 (87) clients. 

We are receiving an increased number of referals for young people between 14 and 18. we do seek to offer support as soon as possible however this is diffucult as we only have a limited number of qualified counsellors who are able to work with young people. 

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## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024 

|**YP  Year**|||||**Waiting**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**ending**||**clients**||**Av.**|**Time**||||
|**31/03/2024**|**Clients**|**attended**|**sessions**|**Sessions**|**(weeks)**|**age**|**male**|**female**|
|finished|11|11|102|9.27|||1|10|
|NLR|9||||||4|4|
|Current|4|4|14|3.50|||2|3|
|WaitingList|6||||||0|6|
||30|15|116|7.73|10|15.5|7|23|



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. 

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 March 2024 we had 12 volunteer counsellors 7 of which are trainees. 

Signed on behalf of the Trustees by Alan Hoggard …........................................... Date: 25th July 2024 Oc 

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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 2024, which are set out on pages 7 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 RAM, 

Date: 12/09/2023 

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## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024 

|Notes<br>2024<br>2024<br>Unrestricted<br>Restricted<br>funds<br>funds<br>£<br>£<br>**Receipts**<br>Grants<br>(2)<br>11,000<br>23,582<br>Donations Received Clients<br>(3)<br>7,114<br>-<br>Donations Other Individuals<br>850<br>Donations from Organisations<br>(4)<br>1,057<br>Earned Income<br>(5)<br>HMRC Gift Aid<br>Fund Generation - Fund Raising<br>163<br>-<br>Bank Interest<br>543<br>Credit Charges<br>4<br>Room Hire Income<br>435<br>-<br>**Total receipts**<br>21,166<br>23,582<br>**Payments**<br>Staff Salaries<br>13,160<br>18,176<br>Employers NI<br>978<br>79<br>Other Staff costs<br>3 to<br>#<br>5<br>Supervision Fees<br>79<br>2,632<br>Counsellor Travel Costs<br>6<br>1,173<br>Counsellor Training<br>342<br>27<br>Other Counsellor Payments<br>7<br>42<br>DBS Checks<br>22<br>2<br>Rent<br>8<br>2,595<br>Brighouse Bid Levy<br>118<br>9<br>Service Charge<br>9 -<br>635<br>Photocopier & Printing<br>138<br>11<br>Postage and Carriage<br>12<br>2<br>Office Stationery<br>68<br>6<br>Telephone and Fax<br>448<br>36<br>Website<br>114<br>9<br>Cleaning<br>25<br>2<br>Insurance<br>414<br>33<br>Refreshments<br>503<br>40<br>Sundry Expenses<br>31<br>2<br>Subscriptions<br>398<br>32<br>Other Training<br>1,018<br>82<br>Bank Charges<br>56<br>4<br>-<br>**Total payments**<br>17,945<br>25,634<br>3,221<br>(2,052)<br>Transfers between funds<br>-<br>-<br>**Net movement in funds after transfers**<br>3,221<br>(2,052)<br>**Fund balances brought forward**<br>25,992<br>26,209<br>**Fund balances carried forward**<br>(8)<br>29,213<br>24,157<br>**Net receipts / (payments)**|2024<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>34,582<br>7,114<br>850<br>1,057<br>-<br>-<br>163<br>543<br>4<br>435<br>44,748<br>31,336<br>1,057<br>72<br>2,711<br>1,251<br>369<br>569<br>24<br>4,800<br>127<br>960<br>149<br>14<br>74<br>484<br>123<br>27<br>447<br>543<br>33<br>430<br>1,100<br>60<br>46,760<br>(2,012)<br>-<br>(2,012)<br>52,201<br>50,189|2023<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>40,765<br>5,584<br>1,696<br>810<br>5,820<br>1,368<br>682<br>50<br>83|
|---|---|---|
|||56,858|
|||30,180<br>450<br>2,823<br>1,409<br>985<br>111<br>4,400<br>960<br>133<br>30<br>359<br>100<br>155<br>428<br>483<br>305<br>463<br>72|
|||43,846|
|||13,012<br>-|
|||13,012<br>39,189|
|||52,201|



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## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

## Statement of assets and liabilities 

|as at 2024||2024|2024|2024|2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||£|£|£|£|
|**Cash funds**||||||
|Cash at bank||25,892|24,157|50,049|52,258|
|Cash in hand||140|-|140|686|
|**Total cash funds**||26,032|24,157|50,189|52,944|
|**Other monetary assets**||||||
|Debtors||||138|-|
|Accrued income|(9)|||3,723|1,625|
|**Less: Liabilities**||||||
|Creditors||||253|743|
|||||53,797|53,826|



## **Approval of the accounts** 

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 25th July 2025 Signed: ……………...………….….    (Trustee) age 

Name: Alan Hoggard 

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The Turning Point Counselling Service 

Notes to the accounts continued 

## for the year ended 31 March 2024 

## **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. 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 & Donations**<br>Benefactor Trust<br>Brighouse Jigsaw Festival<br>CFFC Grant<br>Local Giving<br>Rastrick Big Local<br>3 5<br>The West Trust<br>Calderdale Small Grants<br>6<br>Awards for All<br>7<br>8|2024<br>Unrestricted<br>funds<br>£<br>8,000<br>3,000<br>-<br>11,000|2024<br>Restricted<br>funds<br>£<br>2,000<br>4,956<br>16,626<br>23,582|2024<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>£0<br>£2,000<br>£4,956<br>£0<br>£0<br>£8,000<br>£3,000<br>£16,626<br>34,582|2023<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>£15,250<br>£2,250<br>£14,290<br>£500<br>£975<br>£7,500|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||40,765|
||||||



## **3 Client donations non-taxpayers** 

Clients are asked at their initial meeting to sign up to a weekly contribution 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 also 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 2024 

|**4 Donations from Organisations**<br>St Johns Church Rastrick<br>St Matthews Church Rastrick<br>Upper Edge Baptist Church<br>Churchfields Hall<br>Churches Together<br>Other Donations<br>**5 Earned Income**<br>Calderdale Wellbeing<br>Hipperholme & Lightcliffe secondary School<br>Rastrick High|2024<br>Unrestricted<br>funds<br>£<br>£460<br>£150<br>£150<br>£205<br>£0<br>£965<br>2024<br>Unrestricted<br>funds<br>£<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-|2024<br>Restricted<br>funds<br>£<br>£0<br>2024<br>Restricted<br>funds<br>£<br>-|2024<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>£460<br>£150<br>£150<br>£205<br>£92<br>£1,057<br>2024<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>-|2023<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>£460<br>£250<br>£100<br>£25<br>£0|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||£835|
|||||2023<br>Total<br>funds<br>£<br>£600<br>£4,320<br>£900|
|||||6,780|



3 5 

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** 

**Related party transactions** 7 **Trustee expenses** 8 No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year. 9 - 

## **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 personal supervision fees without which the counsellor would be unable to practise.  Reasonable travel costs on a mileage basis can also be claimed. 

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## The Turning Point Counselling Service 

## Notes to the accounts continued 

## for the year ended 31 March 2024 

|**8**<br>**Funds**<br>**Unrestricted Funds**<br>**Restricted Funds**<br>Young Peoples Fund<br>Capacity Building<br>Benefactor trust<br>CFFC -Hardship Fund<br>Awards for All<br>**9 Accrued income**<br>HMRC Tax Refund Due|**Opening**<br>**Balance**<br>**£**<br>25,992<br>4,053<br>10,718<br>11,438<br>**52,201**|**Receipts**<br>**£**<br>21,166<br>2,000<br>0<br>0<br>4,956<br>16,626<br>**44,748**|**Payments**<br>**£**<br>17,945<br>3,478<br>10,718<br>11,438<br>**43,579**|**Account**<br>**Transfers**<br>**£**<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**0**<br>**2024**<br>£<br>3,723<br>3,723|**Closing**<br>**Balance**<br>**£**<br>**29,213**<br>**2,575**<br>**0**<br>**0**<br>**4,956**<br>**16,626**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**53,370**|
||||||**2023**<br>£<br>1,625|
||||||1,625|



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