Sesame Counselling Service Newport

An affordable counselling service and mental health support for individuals in Newport and the surrounding areas of South Wales. Clients are encouraged to make a voluntary donation to help cover costs. Counsellors offer their services on a voluntary basis. The service also has an educational component, offering placements for trainee counsellors and those working towards accreditation hours.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Newport City
• Caerphilly
• Monmouthshire
• Torfaen
• Cardiff
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: No Defined.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £5,380 and spent £4,966.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 72%, from £3,125 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £5,380 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 92% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £13,000, awarded in 2024.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Alexandra StrangwardChairAppointed 3 May 2022
• Adrian Lyn MathiasAppointed 19 July 2025
• Peter de BoerAppointed 22 December 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1069655

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

21 May 1998

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED ON 28 APRIL 1998.

Website

www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/sesame-counselling-serviceAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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