British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

Analysis

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in July 2003, 23 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. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04839948). It says it makes grants to individuals, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending April 2025, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies reported income of £3.9m and spending of £3.6m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £1.8m to £3.9m (+114%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Laduma Dhamecha Charitable Trust (£3.9m), Cardinal Hume Centre (£3.9m) and Kairos Community Trust (£3.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96%, investments 1.6% and trading 1.1%. Charitable activities took 81% of spending and raising funds 17%. Reserves of £2.4m would cover about 8 months of spending at that rate. It employed 50 people.