In the space provided below, please insert a general account of the company’s activities in the financial year to which the report relates, including a description of how they have benefited the community. During the financial year ended 31 January 2026, Your Space Foundation CIC continued to provide therapeutic and psychologically informed support for children, young people, adults and families across Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. The organisation increased its direct therapeutic provi-sion while also developing commissioned services, professional supervision, training and partnership work. During the year, Your Space Foundation delivered 462 counselling and psychotherapy appointments, compared with 87 appointments during its first year of operation. Most therapeutic work was with children and young people, although adults were also supported. Provision included privately funded therapy alongside funded and commissioned support. No enquiries were turned away during the re-porting period and therapeutic work could typically commence within approximately two weeks of referral. Funded and commissioned provision included counselling for young people through Shenley Church End Parish Council and structured therapeutic interventions for young people at risk of, or experienc-ing, involvement in anti-social behaviour through funding from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. Your Space Foundation also became an approved provider for Northamptonshire Chil-dren's Trust, providing individual and family therapeutic support to care-experienced children and families and those affected by adoption. Towards the end of the reporting period, the CIC was also approved to provide post-adoption support. These services increased access to specialist therapeutic support for children and families who may otherwise experience barriers to timely provision. Outcome monitoring provided encouraging evidence of therapeutic impact. Among clients for whom complete outcome data was available, 76.7% demonstrated reliable improvement or clinical change on their outcome measures. Feedback from clients and families also described improvements in emotional wellbeing, confidence, coping, relationships and family functioning. One family reported that therapy had “helped us improve the way we work together and improve our thinking,” while an-other described the support as having “made the world of difference to our family.” In March 2025, Your Space Foundation moved into dedicated premises in Northampton, establishing a play-therapy room alongside a flexible space for talking therapies. This enabled the organisation to tailor therapeutic environments to client need and provide more consistent access to appointments without relying on externally hired rooms. Five associate therapists joined during the year, increasing the organisation's clinical capacity and range of therapeutic experience. Community benefit was also achieved through supporting professionals and organisations working with children and families. Reflective and restorative supervision was provided to welfare and pasto-ral staff within two schools, supporting staff to reflect on the emotional impact of their work, consid-er complex student presentations and safeguarding concerns, and develop appropriate support plans. Clinical supervision was also provided to a school counsellor in alternative provision, therapists in pri-vate practice and a clinical service manager within another charitable organisation. Your Space Foundation also developed its professional training activity. Safeguarding training specifi-cally designed for counsellors and psychotherapists was delivered during the year, with places provid-ed free of charge to the YSF clinical team and five external practitioners attending. The CIC also part-nered with the Ruth Strauss Foundation to develop e-learning for professionals supporting families affected by incurable illness, extending community benefit by strengthening the knowledge and con-fidence of professionals supporting children and families. Through commissioned work with Chrysalis Foundation, Your Space Foundation contributed therapeu-tic and trauma-informed expertise to wider community projects. This included management of a trauma-informed football group for children affected by trauma, project-management support for Trauma Response Northamptonshire, and contribution to the therapeutic model for Youth Court Solu-tions, which supports young people attending court through psychoeducation and emotional-regulation approaches. Overall, Your Space Foundation increased both the scale and breadth of its community activity during 2025/26. Community benefit was provided directly through therapeutic support and indirectly by strengthening the skills, knowledge and reflective capacity of professionals and organisations working with children and families.

Your Space Foundation's stakeholders during the reporting period included children, young people, adults and families accessing therapeutic support; associate therapists; schools and education profes-sionals; commissioners and funding organisations; partner charities and community organisations; and other professionals working with children and families. Stakeholder consultation took place primarily through ongoing relationships and direct communica-tion arising from service delivery. Clients and families were invited to provide feedback through online forms and direct communication with the organisation. Clinical outcome monitoring also contributed to understanding clients' experiences of therapeutic support. Associate therapists contributed through team discussion and professional reflection, while regular conversations with commissioners, schools and partner organisations provided opportunities to identify emerging needs, review existing provi-sion and consider how services could be developed. Feedback from clients and families highlighted the importance of timely access to therapeutic sup-port. Parents frequently described approaching Your Space Foundation because of long waiting times within statutory and locally available free services. In response, the CIC continued to prioritise respon-sive referral processes and increased its clinical capacity during the year through the recruitment of additional associate therapists and establishment of permanent therapeutic premises. Consultation and ongoing dialogue with Northamptonshire Children's Trust influenced the develop-ment of the CIC's commissioned therapeutic offer. These conversations contributed to greater consid-eration of the needs of the wider family around a child and the development of therapeutic parenting support, which became a standard consideration when developing packages of commissioned sup-port. Engagement with schools through reflective and restorative supervision also provided insight into the pressures experienced by welfare and pastoral staff and the complexity of the children and young people they support. This informed the CIC's developing approach to professional supervision, with sessions incorporating reflection on the emotional impact of the work alongside consideration of complex presentations, safeguarding concerns and appropriate support planning. The directors recognise that stakeholder engagement during this period of growth was predominantly embedded within service delivery and professional relationships rather than through a formal organi-sation-wide consultation process. As a result, strengthening and formalising stakeholder consultation was identified as a priority for the CIC's next stage of development, with the intention of creating more consistent opportunities for clients, families, practitioners, commissioners and partner organi-sations to contribute to service evaluation and future planning.

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