## **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**
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## Contents
|Contents|||
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|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
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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**
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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.
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## **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;
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▪ 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:
1. 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]**
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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**|
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## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION**
As at 31 Oct 2025
London Accessibility Psychotherapy & Inclusive Supervision [LAPIS]
|**3**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
3000
Bank Account – GBP
3010
PayPal Account - GBP
3020
Debtors
3030
Prepayments
**TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS**
**4**
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
4000
Accruals
4010
Creditors
**TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**5**
**FUNDS**
5000
Unrestricted Funds
5010
Restricted Fund
5020
Designated Funds
5030
Net Income
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**Unrestricted Funds**
**£**
£1,516
£0
£0
£0
**£1,516**
£0
£0
**£0**
**£1,516**
£425
£0
£0
£1,091
**£1,516**|**Restricted Funds**
**£**
£0
£0
£0
£0
**£0**
£0
£0
**£0**
**£0**
£0
£0
£0
£0
**£0**|**TOTAL**
**2024/2025**
**TOTAL**
**2023/2024**
**£**
£1,516
**£425**
£0
**£0**
£0
**£0**
£0
**£0**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||£1,516
**£425**|
||||£0
**£0**
£0
**£0**|
||||**£0**
**£0**|
|||||
||||**£1,516**
**£425**|
||||£425
**£928**
£0
**£0**
£0
**£0**
£1,091
**-£502**|
||||£1,516
**£425**|
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