BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Latest accounts filed cover 2025-03-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2023-03-31.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

RSM UK Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The governors are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties around the continuing relevance of the charity or its ability to continue.”

Group structure

1. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY · parent
   1. BACP Enterprises Limited 100% · United Kingdom · deals with income raised from advertisements placed in the Therapy Today Journal (TT), Divisional journals produced by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and member events.

Significant events

• “A record 50 of our policies featured in 18 party manifestos covering all four nations of the UK during the 2024 General Election campaign.”
• “We helped influence an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which has now been passed into law.”
• “Our Essential guide for leaders providing school-based counselling provision prompted multi-academy trust Cabot Learning Foundation to review job descriptions and pay scales in line with our guidance and recommended salaries.”
• “Our Bridging the gaps report detailed the value of community-based counselling services and the challenges they face in meeting rising demand amid uncertain funding.”
• “Following the shocking racist violence seen on the streets of towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland in the summer, we held an online roundtable discussion on anti-racism.”
• “Our digital marketing campaign generated more than 13,000 enquiries to members listed on our directory from people seeking support.”
• “We re-launched our Therapy Today podcast, which delivers engaging content from our main journal, and our Insight podcast, which focused on topical learning and development themes, in summer 2024.”
• “Our Addictions competence framework has been downloaded 1,192 times following its publication in November 2024.”
• “We've added links from our Ethics hub to member support on topics including international working, online platforms, data protection, employment disputes and to our Good Practice in Action (GPIA) resources.”
• “Three projects are being funded by BACP's research grants, sharing a pot of £120,000.”
• “Along with York St John University, we've funded PhD student Lei Sorvisto to undertake research on the use and implementation of routine outcome measures (ROMs) in the counselling professions.”
• “Our Get help with counselling concerns service responded to 1,754 enquiries, with 92% of people surveyed rating the service as good or excellent.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

6

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +7%

  £11,194,120 → £11,977,299

• Cash

  +33%

  £2,717,880 → £3,614,412

• Net assets

  -2.1%

  £7,936,959 → £7,771,668

• Employees

  +9.4%

  128 → 140

• Operating profit

  -86.6%

  £1,157,900 → £155,238

• Profit before tax

  -86.6%

  £1,157,900 → £155,238

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers