YORK MIND (INCORPORATING OUR CELEBRATION) LTD

Registered charity 1006759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUREAU 292, HIGHCLIFFE EVENTS ORGANISERS, MOORSIDE TRAINING CENTRE, OUR CELEBRATION

York Mind (Incorporating Our Celebration) is an independent provider of high quality mental health services in York and its surrounding area.We support adults recovering from mental ill-health to help them achieve outcomes that will progress them towards recovery and integration in mainstream activity such as learning, volunteering or employment.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £155,532 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds held of £375,906. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves were £227,772, which is above the agreed target minimum level of £110,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity will be able to continue in operation, with the going concern basis of accounting deemed appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02659442

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — York Mind (Incorporating Our Celebration) Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Business Waste — “Thank you to our website funders! We are very grateful for the support of the following organisations whose funding has enabled us to develo…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DUNFORD, Helen — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• COWMAN, Alex — director, appointed 30/07/2025on trustee list
• WARN, Vanessa Nadine — director, appointed 30/05/2025not on trustee list
• LEE, George — director, appointed 30/05/2025on trustee list
• SALKELD, Andrew — director, appointed 30/09/2024on trustee list
• ASGHAR, Ammer — director, appointed 02/07/2024not on trustee list
• HORN, Colette — director, appointed 01/06/2024not on trustee list
• WONG, Joy — director, appointed 01/05/2024on trustee list
• ELLIS, David Brian — director, appointed 01/10/2019on trustee list
• SCOTT, Alyson Laird — secretary, appointed 01/12/2013

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Cowman
• Ameer Asghar
• Andrew Salkeld
• Coletter Horn
• David Ellis
• Dr David Geddes
• George Lee
• Helen Dunford
• Joy Wong
• Natalia Belesova

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE MIND.

• HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE MIND income £8.5m
• Tameside, Oldham, Glossop and Stockport Mind Ltd income £4.3m
• SUNDERLAND MIND income £517k
• THE RETREAT YORK income £2.9m
• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• LANCASHIRE MIND LIMITED income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.