ANNUAL REPORT FOR JAKIN CARE AND COUNSELLING 2025
This was our twenty-fourth year of running our free counselling service in Leicester and Leicestershire. On the 24th September 2025 we were 24 years old!
We continued to care for clients from Monday to Friday, offering our blended service through a variety of means, giving free counselling sessions to clients either by telephone, zoom, WhatsApp video, or face to face in person at The Kings Centre in Wigston. Working virtually or face to face and offering this choice to our clients, as well as matching our own needs as counsellors and support workers, continues to work well. Our supervision sessions have been on the telephone and zoom, our trustee prayer meetings have been via zoom and our trustee meetings have all been in person.
We are now seeing more request for in person counselling than last year.
Our team has reduced during the year, and we now have 5 counsellors, some undergoing training but all well supervised. They are offering more client sessions. This year we had 75 referrals which was less than last year, but we were able to offer 810 sessions in total, up 32 per cent on last year.
The issues we’ve cared for in the counselling have ranged from supporting clients who are pregnant and don’t know what to do, to those who have had terminations and are grieving and the majority of our sessions have been with clients post abortion. We have supported them with long term grief support, shame work, supporting anxiety, working on low self-esteem, wounds unhealed from the past and supporting clients with the daily triggers and trauma effects they live with.
All counsellors have regular supervision following the guidelines of BACP [British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy] and ACC [Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked professions]
We also have bimonthly team meetings of volunteers and trustees to offer support to each other.
Our trustee team has remained Sally Bailey, Anona Griffin, Pete Owers and we welcomed Mel Beynon later in the year, one of our training counsellors. As Pete Owers is stepping down from his role as trustee but has agreed to continue keeping our accounts for us, we will be recruiting another trustee. We are planning some information meetings at large churches which may draw new counsellors, trustees, clerical and financial support. The trustees are working on a five year plan and risk management documents. We have reviewed our policy documents.
Our finances are good, but costs such as website maintenance and other running costs will be increasing.
Otherwise, we have had an excellent year and are looking forward to growing our charity.
JAKIN PREGNANCY CARE AND COUNSELLING TRUST Chari No 1181151 Receipts and Payments account for the period from 1st January 2025 to 31$t Dernber 2025 2025 2024 TOTAL TOTAL General General fund fund GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS Income Receipts From voluntary sources Donations Gift Aid other income 23,655.75 1,208.91 178.25 25,042.91 29,763.19 991.30 30,754.49 From assets Deposit interest Total receipts 41.30 25 084.21 51.50 30 805.99 PAYMENTS Charitable aclivty direct expenditure Resources for clients Pregnancy testing kits 1.00 1.00 Other expenditure Salary and pension costs Printing, postage and stationery DBS checks Sundry expenses Traininglsupetvision Subscriptions Rent, rates and telephone Insurance Website costs 18,335.65 425.45 240.00 199.55 1,377.50 240.00 282.42 257.77 1800.00 23 158.34 26.920.02 219.52 295.00 640.00 240.00 128.04 257.77 600.00 29 300.35 Total payments 23 1S9.34 29 300.35 Net receiptsl(payments) for the year ACCUMULATED RESERVES At 31st December 2024 Net receiplsllpaymenls} for the period At 31¥1 December 2025 10,294.19 1 924.87 8,788.55
JAKIN PREGNANCY CARE AND COUNSELLING TRUST Chari No 1181151 Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 3151 December 2025 31.12.25 31.12.24 TOTAL TOTAL General fund General fund MONETARY ASSETS Bank current account Bank deposit account 7,075.91 5 143.15 12 219.06 6,692.34 3 601.85 10 294.19
JAKIN PREGNANCY AND COUNSELLING TRUST (Charity Registration No. 1181151) Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Jakin Pregnancy and Counselling Trust I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the Jakin Pregnancy and Counselling Trust {the Trust) for the period ended 31 st December 2025. Responsibilities and basls of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 I'the Act,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions givèn by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. Independent examlnerfs 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 resp8Ct of the Trust as required by se¢tion 130 of the Act., or 2. The accounts do not accord with those records. I have no conM$ 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 J. W. Ireland Chartered Accountant 7 Church Bank Great Easton Market Harborough Leics LE16 8SN
JAKIN PREGNANCY CARE AND COUNSELLING TRUST Chari No 1181151 Receipts and Payments account for the period from 1st January 2025 to 31$t Dernber 2025 2025 2024 TOTAL TOTAL General General fund fund GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS Income Receipts From voluntary sources Donations Gift Aid other income 23,655.75 1,208.91 178.25 25,042.91 29,763.19 991.30 30,754.49 From assets Deposit interest Total receipts 41.30 25 084.21 51.50 30 805.99 PAYMENTS Charitable aclivty direct expenditure Resources for clients Pregnancy testing kits 1.00 1.00 Other expenditure Salary and pension costs Printing, postage and stationery DBS checks Sundry expenses Traininglsupetvision Subscriptions Rent, rates and telephone Insurance Website costs 18,335.65 425.45 240.00 199.55 1,377.50 240.00 282.42 257.77 1800.00 23 158.34 26.920.02 219.52 295.00 640.00 240.00 128.04 257.77 600.00 29 300.35 Total payments 23 1S9.34 29 300.35 Net receiptsl(payments) for the year ACCUMULATED RESERVES At 31st December 2024 Net receiplsllpaymenls} for the period At 31¥1 December 2025 10,294.19 1 924.87 8,788.55
JAKIN PREGNANCY CARE AND COUNSELLING TRUST Chari No 1181151 Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 3151 December 2025 31.12.25 31.12.24 TOTAL TOTAL General fund General fund MONETARY ASSETS Bank current account Bank deposit account 7,075.91 5 143.15 12 219.06 6,692.34 3 601.85 10 294.19
JAKIN PREGNANCY AND COUNSELLING TRUST (Charity Registration No. 1181151) Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Jakin Pregnancy and Counselling Trust I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the Jakin Pregnancy and Counselling Trust {the Trust) for the period ended 31 st December 2025. Responsibilities and basls of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 I'the Act,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions givèn by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. Independent examlnerfs 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 resp8Ct of the Trust as required by se¢tion 130 of the Act., or 2. The accounts do not accord with those records. I have no conM$ 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 J. W. Ireland Chartered Accountant 7 Church Bank Great Easton Market Harborough Leics LE16 8SN