Pathways and Perspectives Counselling and Well-being Annual Report – Submission to the Charity Commission, March 2026 

## **Charity Number 1201821** 

## **Jewels, 6 Bedford Square, LU5 5ES** 

## **AGM 28[th] October, 2024** 

## **Summary of year April 2024 until March 2025** 

## **STAFF:** 

- **TRUSTEE NAMES:  Glenda Danda, Gillian Harvey, Rachel Honeyford, Lilian Ogunbiyi, Ronald Reeves** 

- **MANAGER NAME: Rachel Honeyford** 

- **VOLUNTEER NAMES:  David Gibbons (charity** 

   - **documentation/administration and IT consultation, publicity) Rachel Honeyford, (event organisation, facilitation, administration, publicity) Anne-Marie Hoade (event facilitation), Anne Jones, (event facilitation), Ronald Reeves (event organisation, facilitation)** 

## **HOW STAFF ARE RECRUITED:** 

- **From the local community of Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire** 

- **Social networking and service users at Jewels, Bedford Square, Houghton Regis** 

- **Professional networking counselling/supervision community** 

## **OBJECTIVES** 

- **To provide an accessible and affordable counselling service for Houghton Regis residents** 

- **To provide accessible free of charge or low-cost well-being activities/events** 

## **ACTIVITIES** 



- **Well-being sessions in the community – Jewels/Visits to Care Centres** 

- **Affordable Professional Counselling Sessions** 

- **Creative Craft Group Sessions** 

**Counselling sessions are usually offered weekly (less frequently if requested) for 50mins – one hour.   The price ranges from £5 to £30 per session.   A typical price for professional counselling in the Houghton Regis area would be £40 - £60 per session.** 

**Well-being sessions are offered once a month at Jewels according to need; visits to care homes/day-centres by arrangement** 

**Creative Craft is offered once a month on a Saturday morning at Jewels.** 

**Creative Craft and Well-being visits/workshops are in-person events.  Creative Craft is in Jewels, Houghton Regis every month on Saturday mornings, but is not run in April, August and December.** 

## **FINANCE - Income** 

- **Cash and material (e.g., craft items) donations come from service users, volunteers, members of the public as follows:** 

- **Craft events** 

- **Payments for affordable counselling** 

- **Jewels (run by Unity Christian Fellowship) provides tea/coffee and use of Jewels as a venue for events and counselling** 

## **ACHIEVEMENTS** 

- **Provision of a low-cost, professional counselling service which is not limited to a specific number of sessions and where counsellors draw on a variety of therapeutically creditable approaches and techniques to meet the needs of local service users** 

- **Counselling is offered remotely and in-person according to individual service user needs** 

- **Well qualified counsellors are available to offer sessions to the local community** 

- **Good attendance at the Creative Craft Sessions; users report their satisfaction and a feeling of achievement and empowerment from their engagement with accessible craft activities** 

- **Creative Craft - provision of free beverages and craft materials with the option to buy reasonably priced luxurious coffee/chocolate drinks from the machine at Jewels** 



- **A diverse range of people attend our events in terms of age, background, socioeconomic status and a wide range of abilities** 

## **FINANCE** 

## **Our bank balance was £382.32 on 31[st] March, 2025.** 

## **UPDATES AND POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS** 

- **A capital cost grant has been received from Central Beds for well-being and counselling resources** 

- **Wellness Workshops – Rachel has been considering running sessions at local centres such as Rosalyn House, (care home), All Saints View (independent living accommodation)** 

- **Run fundraising events such as an afternoon (cream tea)?** 

## Additional Information 

## FUNDING 

We have received a small grant of £282.97 from Central Bedfordshire Council which was credited to our account in October 2024. This is to buy equipment and materials for craft/well-being sessions and will help us to extend the variety of activities on offer. 

## Financial Summary 

Charity Commission Annual Accounts Return 2024 – 2025 (Tax Year) 

## INCOME 

## £778 

## Breakdown 

||||
|---|---|---|
||Central Beds Council Grant|£283|
||Individual Gifts|£495|



Grants = £283 

Donations/Legacies £495 



## EXPENDITURE 

## £ 711 

## BREAKDOWN 

|BREAKDOWN||
|---|---|
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|Web Hosting|£81|
|Activities Supplies|£39|
|Safeguarding|£150|
|Professional Fees|£148|
|Bank Fees|£71|
|ICO Data Protection|£35|
|Insurance|£187|



BANK BALANCE AS AT 4.4.25 = £ 382.32