ARUN COUNSELLING CENTRE 


## **ANNUAL REPORT 2022/23** 

**Dove Lodge, 49 Beach Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex. BN17 5JG Tel 01903 714417 Email; admin@aruncounselling.com** 

**Registered Charity No.293053 Accredited Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy** 



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## Trustees of the Charity 

Andrew Kelly – Chair of Trustees, appointed 08 July 2021 

Carole Beaty – Trustee, appointed 4th March 2022 

Louise Kyffin - Trustee, appointed 27th March 2023 Rosey Whorlow - Trustee, appointed 22[nd] March 2023 Holly Myfield – Trustee, appointed 21[st] January 2023 

Caroline Ruijterman – Trustee Appointed 14th March 2012, since resigned. 

NB. Other in year resignations – Mary Miles, Mark Harvey, Rob Rhodes-Kubiak. 

## Key Personnel 

Robert Abbot – Clinical Director, appointed 1st August 2020 Margaret Yarlett – Director, appointed 13 February 2023, replacing Julie Slumbers Daisy Moore – Treasurer, appointed 7 September 2022, replacing Penny Pedzinski Sally Davis – Administrative Officer, appointed 6[th] February 2023 



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## Chair of Trustee’s Annual Report 

This year has seen further change in terms of personnel and with how and what we do. 

We have strengthened our systems and administrative processes using Cliniko to support our counselling work and utilised other IT systems to improve how we operate. We have invested in more administrative support to increase our capacity and raised levels of payment for senior roles to provide consistency and stability. We have also brought in fundraising expertise to seriously compete for grant applications within the charitable sector to fund our operations. We appreciate this will take time to come to fruition to develop a further income stream, but in future this should enable ACC to grow and have the capacity to see more clients. 

Again, we have experienced a change in Director, with Maggie Yarlett replacing Julie Slumbers and Daisy Moore joining us as Treasurer, with Penny Pedzinski moving on. We have said goodbye and thanks to some of our Trustees, particularly Caroline Ruijterman, who has been with ACC for many years in various guises and have strengthened our Board with new Trustees who will provide us with wide ranging experiences which should benefit ACC over the coming years. 

We have been attempting to raise our profile within the community with increased use of social media and contact with GP surgeries whilst maintaining a resolute team of counsellors, to ensure we can support increasing number of clients. We would not have been able to achieve all that we have without the fantastic contributions of our volunteers across the board in all roles, and on behalf of the Board of Trustees I again express my thanks to all concerned. 

Our financial performance has taken a dip this year with the changes I’ve explained but as we look forward to next year, I’m sure the financial position will look more positive as we benefit from our fundraising activities and seek to introduce an Employee Assistance Programme that we can offer to the staff of local employers. 

Andrew Kelly – Chair of Trustees 

17/10/2023 



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## Treasurers Report 

- Assets and income have increased marginally since 2022, but liabilities have risen by more. 

- The increase in liabilities is mostly due to officer fees and the rental cost of counselling rooms and our office at Dove Lodge. The former is due to recruitment of administrative staff, the minimum wage increase, and an increase in honorariums - client contributions have not risen in line with this. 

- Therefore, we made a loss of £5,637 this year; However, we should hopefully have more grants to assist in the coming year but the increase in staffing costs with no uplift to client contributions will continue to create an issue. 

- Other costs have remained consistent in general. 

Daisy Moore, Treasurer 

## Clinical Directors Report 

As part of our business plan this year, we have introduced a working party called the Empower group tasked with developing an EAP (Employment Assistance Programme) for ACC, which we can offer to local businesses. This has involved a lot of preparatory work from colleagues and should be ready to launch in the Autumn of 2023. 

During this year we have introduced Cliniko as a Client Management System and have commenced rolling this out to our supervision groups. The aim is to have all supervision groups using Cliniko by Christmas 2023. Cliniko offers us many advantages. For example, it allows us to manage more systematically the numbers of clients each counsellor is seeing; how much each client is paying and whether that payment is being made; store client records online in a secure environment. 

Over this year we have formed a network with other local counselling services. These are Chichester Counselling, Worthing Counselling, The Young People’s Shop, The Life Centre, Confide Counselling, Sage Counselling and Positives Routes. The heads of these services meet regularly, where we consider how we can work together to share costs and expertise. One initiative we are working on is a joint bid to the Lottery Partnership fund to develop training and resources for diversity (gender, ethic, cognitive). 

We have three areas we could consider exploring: (a) working with 16–18-year-olds; (b) Group work; (c) couple counselling. All have their attractions, and we will need to discuss which area to move into first. 

We need to get the EAP scheme and Cliniko working fully before we explore these areas further. 

Rob Abbott, Clinical Director 



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Contents 

Accountants report……………………………………………………………….2 Profit and Loss account………………………………………………………….3 Balance Sheet…………………………………………………………………….4 Notes to the accounts……………………………………………………….......5 



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# Arun Counselling Centre 

## Accountants Report 

## **Report of the accountant to Arun Counselling Centre on the preparation of the unaudited Financial Information of Arun Counselling Centre** 

I have examined the income and expenditure accounts and Balance sheet of Arun Counselling Centre as at 31[st] May 2023 and have verified balances at the bank and in my opinion the accounts are in accordance with the books and give a true Statement of affairs. 


Simon Mansfield MAAT 


20th September 2023 



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## Arun Counselling Centre 

## Profit and Loss 

For the Year Ended 31[st] May 2023 

|2023<br>£<br>**Turnover**<br>Income<br>Client donations<br>32,448<br>COVID response<br>0<br>Gift Aid payments<br>0<br>Student fees<br>3,955<br>Fundraising<br>372<br>Books<br>0<br>Tesco Grant<br>500<br>Arnold Clark<br>1,000<br>Other<br>880<br>Less overpayment<br>**Cost of sales**<br>Opening Stock<br>0<br>Closing Stock<br>0<br>Gross Profit|2022<br>£<br>31,200<br>0<br>1,080<br>3,475<br>333<br>33<br>0<br>0<br>0<br>39,155<br>0<br>0<br>0<br>39,155|36,121|
|---|---|---|
|||0<br>36,121|





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## **Expenses** 

|58000 – Other|373||18||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|60000 – Advertising|0||84||
|64500 - Dues and Subscriptions|1,424||1,717||
|65000 – Officer fees|28,667||18,503||
|67000 – Insurance|212||213||
|68500 - Legal and Professional|1,093||2,937||
|69000 – Licenses|0||40||
|71000 – Office (eg: stationary)|114||381||
|73500 – Postage|5||34||
|74000 – Rent|11,421||9,929||
|76500 – Travel|1,203||685||
|77000 – Utilities|0||422||
|Depreciation|280||280||
|PayPal fees|0||1||
|||(44,792)||(35,244)|
|Interest||0||2|
|Net Profit||-5,637||879|





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## Arun Counselling Centre 

## Balance Sheet 

For the Year Ended 31[st] May 2023 

||2023||2022||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||£||£||
|**Fixed assets**|||||
|Tangible assets|0||0||
|||0||0|
|**Current assets**|||||
|Stocks|||||
|Cash at bank (current)|20,610||36,043||
|Cash at bank (savings)|9,600||9,600||
|Cash at bank (deposit)|10,000||0||
|Paypal|91||15||
|Fixed assets|280||560||
|||40,581||46,218|
|Total assets less current liabilities||0||0|
|Net Liabilities||40,581||46,218|





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## **Financed by** 

|Capital as at 1stJune<br>Stocks<br>Cash at bank (current)<br>36,043<br>Cash at bank (deposit)<br>9,600<br>Petty cash<br>0<br>Paypal<br>15<br>Fixed assets<br>560<br>Excess income over expenditure<br>-5,637|35,713<br>9,600<br>26<br>0<br>0<br>879<br>40,581<br>40,581|46,218<br>46,218|
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## Arun Counselling Centre 

## Notes to the accounts 

For the Year Ended 31[st] May 2023 

## **Accounting policies** 

**Basis of preparation -** The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention. 

**Income -** Income represents donations provided to the charity. 

**Depreciation -** Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows: 

Computer 33.3% straight line basis Office Equipment 33.3% straight line basis 

**Stock -** n/a 

**Tangible fixed assets -** n/a 



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## **Receipts over expenditure comparison (previous years)** 

||Receipts|2016/17|2017/18|2018/19|2019/20|2020/21|2021/22|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Clients donations|£28,268|£31,354|£26,811|£28,048|£23,987|£31,200|
||Other donations|£386|£66|£241|£18|||
||Interest|£5||||£7|£2|
||Student Fees|£1,435|£2,185|£1,474|£1,340|£3,300|£3,475|
||Workshops|£510|£495|||||
||Gift aid payments|£1,514|£2,036|£3,349|£2,899|£1,327|£1,080|
||COVID response|||||£13,980||
||Waitrose||||||£333|
||Books||||||£33|
||Total|£32,118|£36,136|£31,875|£32,305|£42,601|£36,123|



||Expenses|2016/17|2017/18|2018/19|2019/20|2020/21|2021/22|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Counsellor expenses|£2,002|£3,112|£4,118|£3,369|||
||74000 – Rent|£9,332|£11,217|£11,310|£15,364|£10,917|£9,929|
||Sundries|£2,193|£2,213|£1,631|£1,617|||
||65000 – Officer fees|£11,792|£13,133|£13,204|£11,176|£15,912|£18,503|
||Phone|£865|£1,384|£1,385|£1,365|£806||
||Insurance|£200|£204|£179|£202|£213||
||71000 – Office (eg: stationary)|£399|£432|£76|£74|£466|£381|
||Accountancy fee|£120|£150|£150|£150|£150||





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|BACP Annual fee|£309|£322|£314|£589|£319||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Depreciation||||||280|
|Assessment fee|||£1,273|2,092|||
|Beach Party|£604|£120|||||
|58000 – Other||||||18|
|60000 - Advertising||||||84|
|64500 - Dues and<br>Subscriptions||||||1,717|
|67000 - Insurance||||||213|
|68500 - Legal and Professional||||||2,937|
|69000 - Licenses||||||40|
|73500 - Postage||||||34|
|76500 – Travel||||||685|
|77000 - Utilities||||||422|
|PayPal fees||||||1|
|Total|£27,816|£32,287|£33,640|£35,998|£28,783|£35,244|
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|Income over expenditure|£4,302|£3,849|-£1,765|-£3,693|£13,818|£879|