IMAGINE INDEPENDENCE

Registered charity 1010203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IMAGINE, MCMHS, MERSEYSIDE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

To promote the preservation and the safeguarding of mental health, assist in relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental disorder, conditions of emotional or mental distress, requiring advice or treatment, through the provision of services.The relief of people who are in need by any reason of any physical illness or disability, including learning disabilities and dementia.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £106,946 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a reduction from the restated deficit of £230,662 in the prior year. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the free reserves of £889,665 to be sufficient, noting that they are subject to review against the charity's policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02699682

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Imagine Independence (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PANAGAKI, Katerina — director, appointed 12/11/2025on trustee list
• BAYLIS-WAREING, Wendy Karen, Ms. — director, appointed 28/08/2025on trustee list
• CASSIDY, Richard Anthony — director, appointed 02/02/2022on trustee list
• BURNS, Michael Thomas — director, appointed 14/04/2021on trustee list
• POOLE, Christopher Robert — director, appointed 23/07/2007on trustee list
• MATHER, Elaine Angela — secretary, appointed 27/06/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £80k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Imagine Independence — Registered, 10 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 18/06/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Lancashire: Good (25/07/2020) · CQC record
• Hope Street: Good (12/01/2019) · CQC record
• Fielder Lodge: Outstanding (26/11/2019) · CQC record
• Crosby Women's Service: Good (11/06/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER POOLEchair
• Katerina Panagaki
• Kathryn Roberts
• Michael Thomas Burns
• Richard Anthony Cassidy
• Wendy Karen Baylis-Wareing

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT.

• LEICESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT income £332k
• LANCASHIRE MIND LIMITED income £2.5m
• ONSIDE INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY income £3.7m
• RICHMOND BOROUGH MIND income £1.9m
• CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY income £8.7m
• THE INDEPENDENT METHODIST ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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