Borderline Counselling Services

Analysis

Borderline Counselling Services is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Carlisle. It was registered in October 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Borderline Counselling Services reported income of £61k and spending of £44k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £16k to £61k (+283%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 314%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Borderline Counselling Services sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vulnerable Persons Interventions (£61k), Eritrean Saho Community Association (£61k) and Crowborough for Young People Ltd (£61k).