THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-05 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+6.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£1M
+15.3% vs 2023
Employees
63
-3.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£186K
-26.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,810,700 | £1,823,400 | |
| Operating profit | £219,400 | £137,500 | |
| Profit before tax | £252,200 | £185,600 | |
| Net profit | £252,200 | £185,600 | |
| Cash | £1,295,200 | £1,373,700 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,235,300 | £1,396,800 | |
| Net assets | £1,211,200 | £1,396,800 | |
| Equity | £1,211,200 | £1,396,800 | |
| Average employees | 65 | 63 | |
| Wages | £921,900 | £927,100 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+0.7%
£1,810,700 £1,823,400
-
Cash
+6.1%
£1,295,200 £1,373,700
-
Net assets
+15.3%
£1,211,200 £1,396,800
-
Employees
-3.1%
65 63
-
Operating profit
-37.3%
£219,400 £137,500
-
Profit before tax
-26.4%
£252,200 £185,600
-
Wages
+0.6%
£921,900 £927,100
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.1% | 7.5% | |
| Net margin | 13.9% | 10.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.8% | 9.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 36.2% | 32.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.25x | 2.46x | |
| Interest cover | 182.83x | 196.43x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION 2011-11-14 → present
- HERTS. & BEDS. COUNSELLING FOUNDATION 2007-07-31 → 2011-11-14
- HERTS. & BEDS. PASTORAL FOUNDATION 1992-05-12 → 2007-07-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Mercer & Hole LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION · parent
- College Yard Management Limited 0.4%
Significant events
- “The Foundation increased its volumes on NHS work in Hertfordshire in 2024 by 19% over 2023 and has been re-awarded a place on this NHS Hertfordshire contract for another 4 years from May 2025.”
- “The arrangements for the delivery by the Foundation of short-term counselling for the NHS in Bedfordshire came to an end in March 2024.”
- “For 2024 onwards, we have revised this programme to map onto the competencies required by ScoPEd, a framework adopted by BACP and other industry bodies, to include a three-year Diploma and a two-year Advanced Diploma and one-year Advanced Clinical Skills courses.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 56 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATES, Antony George | Director | 2021-10-05 | Mar 1966 | British |
| CLARKE, Richard | Director | 2023-02-22 | May 1966 | British |
| MACQUEEN, Mandy | Director | 2017-08-08 | Feb 1968 | British |
| MARKEY, Anne Carmel | Director | 2024-08-06 | Jun 1962 | Irish |
| MOLEFI-YOURI, Wendy, Dr | Director | 2019-08-21 | Jan 1970 | British |
| ROBINSON, Sean Antony | Director | 2023-02-22 | Apr 1964 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Jacqueline | Director | 2024-08-06 | Jul 1964 | British |
Show 56 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUNATILLEKE, Leslie | Secretary | 2006-10-10 | 2008-04-28 |
| LIDDELL, Peter Gregory, The Reverend Dr | Secretary | 1992-05-12 | 2002-01-25 |
| NEEDHAM, Philip | Secretary | 2015-04-28 | 2020-04-07 |
| WHITE, Terence Clement | Secretary | 2002-01-25 | 2006-10-10 |
| ASHBY, Richard Maurice | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1996-03-29 |
| ASHLEY, Neil Patrick Yorke | Director | 2010-10-27 | 2014-03-27 |
| ASHTON, Ian Edward | Director | 2003-12-18 | 2008-02-09 |
| BAZELEY, Brenda Joan | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1993-11-29 |
| BEECH, Betty Sheila | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1997-01-13 |
| BIGGS, John Stanley | Director | 1997-01-13 | 2010-05-17 |
| BOGIE, Frances Elizabeth | Director | 2021-02-02 | 2023-11-20 |
| BOSHER, Colin James Derek | Director | 2007-10-15 | 2015-10-27 |
| BRANCH, Emma Louise | Director | 2019-08-21 | 2020-11-01 |
| BROWN, Jack Robin, Reverend Canon | Director | 2005-09-26 | 2011-08-31 |
| BUCKLER, Guy Ernest Warr | Director | 2013-02-04 | 2016-08-30 |
| BYWATERS, Rodney David | Director | 1996-03-29 | 2001-07-30 |
| COKER, Eric Godfrey | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1996-03-29 |
| EDDLESTON, Bernard Noel Francis | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2007-12-10 |
| FALK, John Gerald | Director | 1996-03-29 | 2001-01-26 |
| GAIN, Robin Graham Garner, Doctor | Director | 1992-05-12 | 1995-02-24 |
| GELL, Julian Christopher | Director | 2011-06-29 | 2021-10-05 |
| GODRICH, Francine | Director | 2016-02-10 | 2019-08-21 |
| GORTON, James Duncan, Dr | Director | 1999-12-03 | 2001-01-26 |
| HILL, David John | Director | 2005-12-12 | 2017-04-25 |
| HOARE, Terence Michael | Director | 1997-01-13 | 2002-04-30 |
| HULBERT, Frances Nicola Mellish | Director | 1995-02-24 | 1998-12-14 |
| JAMESON, Michael James, Dr | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1995-02-24 |
| JENKINS, Kenneth | Director | 1993-04-30 | 1998-12-14 |
| KNEEBONE, Shella Margaret | Director | 1992-05-12 | 1994-10-07 |
| KNOWLES, Geoffrey Frederick | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1996-03-29 |
| LANE, Richard John | Director | 2021-02-02 | 2021-04-20 |
| LATHAM, Anne Frances | Director | 2011-06-29 | 2015-07-28 |
| LITTLE, Charles William | Director | 2009-07-14 | 2013-02-04 |
| MCGUCKIEN, Lilian Louise | Director | 1993-11-29 | 1995-04-12 |
| MORGAN, John Michael | Director | 2001-04-06 | 2002-01-25 |
| MURPHY, Sue | Director | 2021-02-02 | 2024-10-25 |
| NEEDHAM, Philip | Director | 2015-01-08 | 2020-04-07 |
| PEARCE, Jeremy | Director | 2005-06-06 | 2015-06-29 |
| PIPER, Dennis Roland | Director | 1992-11-30 | 2006-03-21 |
| RANGELOVA, Rosi | Director | 2013-07-18 | 2017-04-25 |
| ROBINSON, Derek | Director | 2005-12-12 | 2009-01-06 |
| RODWAY, William George | Director | 1997-09-12 | 2003-05-27 |
| ROGERS, James | Director | 2006-12-12 | 2007-02-05 |
| ROUSE, Richard Meadows | Director | 1998-12-14 | 2001-05-31 |
| SEFTON, John Norman | Director | 2001-04-06 | 2004-08-05 |
| SIMMANS, Albert Frederick George | Director | 1992-11-30 | 1996-03-29 |
| SMITH, Thomas Edward | Director | 2019-08-21 | 2021-02-02 |
| TAYLOR, Martyn Hutchinson | Director | 2013-07-18 | 2020-08-19 |
| TEGALLY, Narinder, Reverend | Director | 2006-08-08 | 2012-07-19 |
| TICHLER, Thomas Alan | Director | 2009-07-14 | 2009-11-17 |
| VALERO, Mariola | Director | 2017-08-08 | 2017-12-12 |
| WALDEN, Ian Mennie | Director | 2004-12-13 | 2015-12-15 |
| WATCHMAN, Charles Michael | Director | 2007-03-19 | 2015-10-20 |
| WATKINS, Malcolm Geoffrey | Director | 2003-12-18 | 2005-02-18 |
| WHITE, Terence Clement | Director | 1992-11-30 | 2005-12-31 |
| WHITFIELD, Gillian Mary | Director | 1995-02-24 | 2006-06-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 213 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-07-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-07-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-20 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.