## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2024 Period start date To date**
**31 March 2025 Period end**
**Charity name: EBS Counselling**
## **Charity registration number: 1186362**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Confidential Counselling Service in**
**Eastleigh & surrounding areas and**
**Southampton.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Non judgemental emotional support to**
**promote understanding of both physical**
**and mental wellbeing to all over the age**
**of 18 years.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All Trustees have been kept up to date**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**One to one counselling by volunteer**
**counsellors.**
**Governence by all Trustees**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Delivered over 500 one to one**
**counselling sessions face to face and**
**online**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Number of counselling sessions**
**achieved**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Objective achieved**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Broke even expenses against income**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves maintained to enable at least 1**
**year forward planning**|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|**£12,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Lack of donations in current financial**
**climate**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Client Donations**
**External Donations**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Lack of donations going forward**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**n/a**|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Interview, Reference Check, Trust Board**
**Agreement minuted**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**One to one mentoring by Chair and other**
**Trustees. They must read all Policies,**
**Procedures and the Constitution**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Flat structure with a Trustee Board ,**
**minimum quorum of 3 for all decisions**
**Below board are volunteers who deliver**
**counselling**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**n/a**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|EBS Counselling|
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|Other name the charity uses|n/a|
|Registered charity number|1186362|
|Charity’s principal address|12 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 9AL|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||MaryGarner|Chair|||
||Elizabeth Dawson|Treasurer|May2024||
||Josie Redman|Policy|||
||Jean Fletcher|Administration|June 2024||
||Linda Mason|Fundraising|January2025||
||Ilona Valent|Communications|February2025||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Mary Garner||
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||Mary Ann Garner||
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Chair||
||30 July 2025||
||30 July 2025||
**Charity Name N EBS COUNSELLING 11**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
**For the period** Period start date **from 01.04.2024**
**To**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted Endowment funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations||**7,405**||||||||**-**||
|Grants||**-**||||||||||
|Bank Interest||**519**||||||||**-**||
|Client donations||**9,234**||||||||**-**||
|Miscalleneous receipts||**301**||||||||**-**||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**17,459**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**,**||||||||||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**17,459**||||**-**||||**-**||
## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**||||||
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|Supervision|**5,588**||||**-**|
|Counsellors' expenses|**232**||||**-**|
|Mobile phone, internet & IT costs|**564**||||**-**|
|Officers' expenses|**334**||||**-**|
|Insurance|**170**||||**-**|
|Admin. Assistance|**5,241**|||||
|Training|**328**||||**-**|
|Room Hire|**5,144**||||**-**|
|Bank charges|**55**||||**-**|
|Miscellaneous expenses|**313**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**17,968**||**-**||**-**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**||
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**-** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total payments**_ **17,968 - -** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **- 508 - - A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 21,143 -** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **20,635 - -**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the**
**Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 20,635 - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **20,635** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK **Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Categories Details B1 Cash funds** CAF Bank accounts
**Details to nearest £ - B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B3 Investment assets Fund to which Details asset belongs**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **Details**
**Fund to which liability relates**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature Print N
**o (if any) 186362**
## **ounts**
**CC16a**
Period end date
**31.03.2025**
**Total funds**
## **Last year**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
|**7,405**||**8,697**|
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|**-**||**-**|
|**519**||**488**|
|**9,234**||**7,902**|
|**301**||**402**|
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|**-**||**-**|
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|**17,459**||**17,489**|
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||**17,459**||||**17,489**||
|**5,588**||**5,400**|
|---|---|---|
|**232**||**447**|
|**564**||**1,170**|
|**334**||**485**|
|**170**||**170**|
|**5,241**||**3,868**|
|**328**||**405**|
|**5,144**||**4,401**|
|**55**||**60**|
|**313**||**698**|
|**17,968**||**17,104**|
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||**-**|**508**||||**385**||
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|||**21,143**||||**20,146**||
|||**20,635**||||**20,531**||
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## Name
Date of approval