Avon Counselling and Psychotherapy Service

Analysis

Avon Counselling and Psychotherapy Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in February 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 22856713). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Avon Counselling and Psychotherapy Service reported income of £19k and spending of £21k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £25k to £19k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Avon Counselling and Psychotherapy Service sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Bristol Port Welfare Association (£19k), Nottingham Clergy Association or Johnson Fund (£19k) and The Haslemere Penny Ha'penny Trust (£19k).