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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 March 2025
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024
to
31 March 2025
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 March 2025
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Our activities have been carried out for the benefit of our communities which include front line staff and their families, poverty stricken and deprived communities, and trainee counsellors. We have provided mental health support, safeguard planning and support, mental health awareness work within the frontline community, free face to face counselling, free telephone counselling, free video counselling, stabilisation of community resources work, networking with crucial community providers, and awareness work on gender-inclusive acceptance for the mental health field and frontline providers. We work closely with the social prescribing network across Cornwall as a leading provider of free counselling to those within our community who need the support most but cannot access it or have to wait for extreme lengths of time for over-prescribed services. We work closely with GP surgeries as a cohesive unit to support their clients from start to end, ensuring a continuation of information and updates that deliver more significant outcomes for patients and providers. This has had a positive impact across the county with less stress and strain on GP surgeries, reduced medication requirements, reduced repeated appointments, reduced admission to A&E for those who have previously engaged in severe self-harm, and reduced pressure on CMHT, paramedics and police. We have worked closely with community resources and organisations to reduce suicides as a partner of the “zero suicides” movement and reduce reoffending rates. 2024-2025 we have provided specialist training and development to our volunteer community with free clinical supervision every month that ensures both ethical and safe practice. This has ensured our trainee team are more prepared and supported to engage in their learning journey, and we have helped them to be the best future for our community's mental health provisions. We make sure our trainee counsellors are not financially disadvantaged during their placement, and this means we can develop and support trainees from more diverse financial backgrounds who previously wouldn't be able to engage in counselling training. 2024-2025 Saw the introduction of counsellor retreats for more focused training opportunities and counselling learning experiences. Supporting and developing the future of our community’s mental health provisions. Diversity within our profession is key, and we are proud to support inclusivity within our workplace. In doing this, we are helping to create mental health provisions that reflect our whole county community and not just the financially secure parts. Diversity and inclusion have always been very important at Ratcliffe & Brown CIC.
Our stakeholders are the communities we support and organisations we work with in official and unofficial partnerships. Previous to our project’s beginning, we invested large amounts of time in detailed market research to identify what our community needs were, what support already existed, and what has worked well previously. From this research, we approached key stakeholders within each community to help design and relevant project that best supported their needs. 2021 saw the pilot of this project achieve great success across all our target communities. We gained end of year feedback in 2022, 2023 and 2024 from our community stakeholders and reviewed the findings at the annual director's meeting. We gain yearly feedback and tweak what we provide based on what our community needs most each year in an ever changing landscape. We have amended our project to reflect a greater focus on specialised training and learning experiences for our trainee counsellors to better support our community’s needs. We moved our service focus to prioritise financially disadvantaged community members and their families and raised awareness of the inequality financial status can cause within our profession for our trainee counsellors.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
19 August 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Rachel Ratcliffe
Status: Director