BEACON BOLTON COUNSELLING SERVICE

Charity number: 1181596
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Beacon Bolton Counselling Service, established in 1990, provides therapeutic counselling to anyone over the age of 16 years, irrespective of race, religion, gender or sexuality.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £82,143
Total expenditure: £84,151

People

4 Trustee(s)

33 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England

Governance

Registration history:
  • 16 January 2019: CIO registration
  • 22 February 2021: Funds received from 1002925 BEACON, BOLTON COUNSELLING SERVICE
  • 19 September 2023: Funds received from 1133478 MANCHESTER AND SALFORD COUNSELLING SERVICE
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
  • BEACON, BOLTON COUNSELLING SERVICE (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

4 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Pamela Ann Duxbury BEM Trustee 25 January 2025
None on record
Andrew Howard Gill Trustee 19 June 2023
None on record
David Tucker Trustee 31 October 2022
None on record
ANNE GILL Trustee 14 January 2019
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £71.42k £73.94k £66.31k £79.13k £82.14k
Total expenditure £86.34k £82.15k £86.04k £89.66k £84.15k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 31 January 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024

(These accounts
have been qualified)

31 January 2025 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 31 January 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 19 April 2024 79 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 23 March 2023 51 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 23 March 2023 51 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 31 January 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 31 January 2022 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 17 February 2021 17 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 17 February 2021 17 days late Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Jan 2019 as amended on 22 Feb 2020

Charitable objects

1) TO HELP RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AMONG ALL INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH WEST AREA OF ENGLAND AND IN PARTICULAR ENSURE EQUALITY OF ACCESS TO PERSONS IN NEED OF HELP AND GUIDANCE AND FOR THIS PURPOSE BUT NOT OTHERWISE TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP A COUNSELLING AND INFORMATION SERVICE. 2) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR COUNSELLORS WORKING IN EITHER PROFESSIONAL OR VOLUNTARY SETTINGS, WHETHER FULL OR PART TIME, WITH A VIEW TO RAISING THE STANDARDS OF COUNSELLING FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE RECIPIENTS OF COUNSELLING.

Contact information

Address:
BEACON COUNSELLING SERVICE
BOLTON HUB
BOLD STREET
BOLTON
BL1 1LS
Phone:
01204 546100
Email:
enquire@beaconcounselling.org
Website:

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