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Registered charity · Herts

The Counselling Foundation

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Hertfordshire, Bedford, Luton
Website
www.counsellingfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Counselling Foundation
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.0m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 33%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

PROVISION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF:I)RELIEF OF SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES BY THE PROVISION OF THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING,II)EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS IN THE PRACTICE OF THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING, ANDIII)THE PROMOTION OF BETTER HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING.

Grants received

12 grants · £76,634 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

7 trustees on the board

4.4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 6Professional services 6Business services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.8 in 2020

63 from 64 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1014988
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/05/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/11/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/2015 AS AMENDED ON 04 DEC 2018 AS AMENDED ON 04 DEC 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 MAY 2024AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 SEP 2024
Companies House
Company number 02713806 · Active
Contact on the register
03003036690 · foundation@counsellingfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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