Windsor & Maidenhead Youth and Community Counselling Service

Analysis

Windsor & Maidenhead Youth and Community Counselling Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidenhead. It was registered in February 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Windsor & Maidenhead Youth and Community Counselling Service reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.1m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £720k to £1.2m (+69%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Windsor & Maidenhead Youth and Community Counselling Service sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woman's Trust (£1.2m), Active Gloucestershire (£1.2m) and York Against Cancer (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 80%, donations and legacies 18% and investments 2.1%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £145k. Charitable activities took 67% of spending and raising funds 1.7%. Reserves of £646k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.