Our Work
Our Work
Our Work
Who We Are
At the heart of all our work is our purpose, empowering people towards positive mental health. We build strong connections with the people we support, and empower them to continue benefiting from the help we provide in the long term.
Our Values
Friendly
We’re warm, welcoming and approachable.
Respectful
We’re all different and we respect that; we listen and never judge.
Inclusive
We are accessible to everyone and treat everyone as an individual.
Effective
We’re committed to making a positive different to people’s lives.
Courageous
We push ourselves and each other to go the extra mile.
Collaborative
We work in partnership and value everybody’s input.
Best Not-for-Profit Stockport Business Award 2021
Member of BACP
NCVO Winifred Tumim Memorial Prize 2013
GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Award 2012
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2008
We want to live in a society where everyone is able to enjoy positive mental health and wellbeing.
Our Mission
We combine our passion for people with our mental health expertise, in a way that empowers the people of Stockport and beyond to live their best possible life, enjoying good mental health, emotional resilience, and the confidence to make life affirming decisions.
Our Work
We do this by providing a range of accessible mental health and wellbeing services, including counselling, groupwork, training and community projects.
Where we work
We deliver on-site counselling at Beacon House, located in Stockport, provide remote therapy online and deliver across 20+ schools and community locations across the region.
Beacon Counselling is a mental health and wellbeing charity (1109545) dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional resilience of our community. We believe everyone should have an equal chance of good emotional well-being; this is at the core of everything we do.
Founded in 1984 to ensure everyone in the local community had somewhere to turn in times of trouble,
regardless of their financial circumstances, we support over 3,000 adults, young people and children each year to improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing and deliver a range of therapy, wellbeing services, group support and targeted projects that empower people with the tools and skills they need to recover and thrive, now and in the future.
Beacon is a leading provider of psychological therapies in Greater Manchester and beyond. The extensive range of skills and experience offered by our pool of qualified paid and volunteer practitioners enables us to help people address a broad spectrum of mental or emotional health issues. Our team responds to a wide range of challenges, supporting people in a way that suits them – we don’t believe in choosing a quick fix over a lasting change and like to get to the root of a problem.
Each year we support
Why Beacon?
We have a highly qualified and experienced team of therapists and well-being workers. All counselling work is rigorously supervised by a team of clinical supervisors working to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s (BACP’s) Ethical Framework and meets the top level of the NHS Information Governance Toolkit. We follow NSPCC Safer Recruitment guidance and carry out DBS checks for staff and volunteers alike.
Our Approach
Equality Focus
We believe that everyone should have an equal chance of good emotional well-being. For that reason, we offer one-to-one counselling and group programmes either free of charge or on a donation basis. We believe that someone’s financial situation shouldn’t limit their access to high quality help and support.
Individualised
Anyone at any point during their life may face mental and emotional health problems. Our services can help individuals dealing with trauma or those struggling to cope with the stresses of life. People can transform and grow through counselling and our team has the expertise to respond to a range of situations and support clients in a way that suits them.
Responsive
We can shape our counselling to reach those who need help the most by using national, regional and local trends and data. Our work is outward facing; we design our services to meet the needs of the communities in Stockport and beyond
Accessible
We believe that help should be readily available and easily accessible. Over the years we have been able to extend our reach into the community by counselling in a range of community centres across the borough, making help more accessible to Stockport’s diverse communities. We continue to find new ways to improve accessibility, opening access to new groups that were without therapeutic support. Some of our facilities have disability access
Collaborative
We work in collaboration with other services to deliver our services. Collaborating with other organisations allows us to help more people and to reach a wider community across the borough. It also helps us to increase and sustain the benefits of support. For these reasons, we have a diverse range of partners across the community with whom we work with to deliver our services.
