2025-10-31-accounts

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London Accessible Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision [LAPIS]

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

Registered Charity Number: 1191467

Trustee’s Annual Report Financial Statements and Independent Examiner's Report for the year ended 31 October 2025

Contents
Trustees’ Annual Report	PAGE
Reference and Administrative Details	2
Structure, Governance, and Management		3
Objects & Aims	4
Objectives, Strategies and Activities	4
Main Objectives for the Year	4
Achievements and Performance	5
Financial Review	5
Reserves Policy	5
Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees	5
Independent Examiner’s Report	6
Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA)	7
Statement of Financial Position (SoFP)	7
Notes to the Financial Statements

Trustees’ Annual Report

The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2025.

Reference and Administrative Details

Charity Name: London Accessible Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision
Charity Number: 1191467
Registered Address: 4 Pages Lane, Ground Floor, London, N10 1PS
Website: www.lapis.org.uk
Trustees Serving in the Period:

TRUSTEE NAME

Dr Lisa Greenspan

Arash Andalibi-Abadan

Carly Shirley Binger

Catherine Anne Cadman

Maria Falzetti

Deepanshi Gulati

Suzanne Pearson

Bankers: NatWest Bank plc
Independent Examiner: Alvina Matanat

Structure, Governance, and Management

Governing Document The charity is controlled by its governing document and constitutes a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO).

Recruitment & Appointment of Trustees

Trustees are recruited through a publicly available internet volunteer recruitment agency or word of mouth. They are invited to an informal interview and then an introductory meeting with the other trustees. The trustees then vote to appoint the new member. Following appointment, the new trustee is given some informal training as to their duties and responsibilities.

Organisational Structure

LAPIS has contracts with outside agencies including short-term projects collaborating with other charities and three-way agreements with training institutions for volunteers who are on clinical placement with LAPIS. LAPIS has various professionals on our Board of Trustees who are representative of our client group and who have skills to mitigate risk, including a solicitor, three mental health professionals all who have founded and manage their own services, a charity service manager and a retired bookkeeper. An emergency meeting would be called in the event of a major threat.

Objects & Aims

The aims of London Accessible Psychotherapy and Inclusive Supervision (LAPIS) are to provide psychotherapy services to anyone affected by physical or health conditions, learning disabilities or neurodiversity, their carers and family, including individual counselling and psychotherapy, mindfulness and mindful movement classes and group work. Therapy is always open-ended and low cost, where the client decides how much to pay.

Objectives, Strategies & Activities

LAPIS has as its objective the promotion of accessible therapy for people with disabilities and health conditions. The inclusive practice includes community settings, a sliding scale that allows low-cost therapy and therapists who are skilled in working with our client groups. There is also a commitment to educating therapists to work with our client group.

Main Objectives for the Year

LAPIS continued to build the capacity to serve the greater London area face-to-face and online plus eligible people from the UK online. This involved an increase in the number of clients taken on plus an increase in the number of trainees and qualified volunteers.

Achievements and Performance The number of clients seen over this financial period has increased to 150. The number of trainees and qualified volunteers seeing LAPIS clients and clinical supervisors during this period was 30.

Financial Review

During the year ended 31 October 2025, LAPIS generated £83,241.04 in income — a 49% increase compared to the prior year (£40,953.87). This increase was largely due to the grant income increase, due to the addition of a fundraising officer. Total expenditure for the year was £82,149.99, representing a 50% increase compared to the previous year (£41,456.07). Room hire and sessional therapist costs increases were largely to account for the increase, caused by a change in requirements by one of our partners to provide a clinical manager at each therapy venue. Increased numbers of trainees on placement resulted in increased costs of requiring room hire and clinical supervision. The increase in case management costs also reflected an increasing vulnerability in the needs of the client group, due to environmental factors such as issues of economic need and isolation and reflecting continued commitment to safe and high-quality service delivery. Cost savings were achieved through the use of pro bono accountancy support, reduced insurance costs. The year closed with £1,516.53 , in funds carried forward. LAPIS remains entirely reliant on voluntary contributions, and private donations, and external grant funding. Reserves Policy The charity aims to retain approximately £10,000 every financial year to cover expenses for the following year. The reserves policy is reviewed annually after the end of the financial year and may be changed if appropriate.

Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees

The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and UK Accounting Standards. They are also responsible for ensuring proper accounting records are kept. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports)

Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period.

In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

▪ prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by order of the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by: Trustee Date Signature

Dr Lisa Greenspan 30 July 2025

Independent Examiner's Report

Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of London Accessible Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision (LAPIS)

I report in my capacity as Independent Examiner, having also prepared the financial statements from the records provided. I am independent of the charity and have no personal or professional relationship with the trustees or management that would impair my objectivity I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2025, which are set out on pages 7 -11.

Responsibilities and Basis of Report

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. I have been appointed as independent examiner and report in accordance with Regulation 31 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. My examination was carried out in accordance with general directions given by the Charity Commission. It includes a review of the accounting records and a comparison with the accounts presented. Examiner's Statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

to give me reasonable cause to believe that the accounting records have not been kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act 2011; or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Alvina Matanat, FCCA Independent Examiner

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES [SoFA]

For year ended 1 Nov 2024 - 31 Oct 2025 London Accessibility Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision [LAPIS]

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (SoFA)

For year ended 1 Nov 2024 - 31 Oct 2025

London Accessibility Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision [LAPIS]

1 INCOME 1000 Donatons – Unrestricted 1010 Donatons – Restricted 1020 Client Therapy Service Contributons 1030 Gif Aid Income 1040 Grant Income – Restricted 1050 Other Income TOTAL INCOME 2 EXPENDITURE 2.1 Charitable Actvites 2000 Clinical Supervision 2010 Counselling Room Hires 2020 Sessional Therapists 2030 Conferences 2040 Volunteer Expenses 2050 Staf Training / Conferences Sub-Total 2.1 Charitable Actvites 2.2 Support / Overhead Costs 2100 Sessional Ofce/Clinical Support & Admin 2110 Accountant & Governance Costs 2120 Website & Comms 2130 Fundraising Costs Sub-Total 2.2 Support / Overhead Costs TOTAL EXPENSES NET INCOME/ (EXPENDITURE) FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD Re-Stated FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD FUND CARRIED FORWARD	TOTAL 2024/2025 £ 41,558 £0 17,652.42 £0 £14,663 £9,368	TOTAL 2023/2024 £ £27,342 £0 £9,159 £3,598 £0 £855
	£83,241.04	£40,953.87
	£16,045 £22,957 £21,677 £0 £1,532 £0	£8,160 £14,511 £16,290 £0 £806 £100
	£62,211 £10,304 £624 £40 £8,971 £19,939	£39,866 £938 £585 £67 £0
		£1,590
	-£82,149.99	£41,456.07
	£1,091 £425 £0
		-£502
		£903 £927.68
	£1,516.53	£425.48

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

As at 31 Oct 2025