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Registered charity · Lutterworth

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Josephine Bey.

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
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.bacp.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£13m
  • 2024£13m£12m
  • 2023£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£10m
  • 2021£10m£8.8m
Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR COUNSELLORS AND/OR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS WORKING IN EITHER PROFESSIONAL OR VOLUNTARY SETTINGS WHETHER FULL OR PART TIME WITH A VIEW TO RAISING THE STANDARDS OF THE COUNSELLING PROFESSIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF COUNSELLING AND/OR PSYCHOTHERAPY. (II) TO INFORM AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THE COUNSELLING PROFESSIONS CAN MAKE GENERALLY AND PARTICULARLY IN MEETING THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHOSE PARTICIPATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIETY IS IMPAIRED BY PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH NEEDS OR DISABILITY

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10General Charitable Purposes 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 12Tech and media 2Business 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£14.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.1 in 2021

146 from 108 in 2021
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
298361
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/10/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/09/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/09/2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/09/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17/11/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/11/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 JAN 2017 as amended on 07 Nov 2019 as amended on 04 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 02175320 · Active
Contact on the register
01455883336 · bacp@bacp.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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