THE MAYA CENTRE

Registered charity 1012889 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISLINGTON WOMEN'S COUNSELLING CENTRE

To provide relief for women who are suffering from mental health problems by means of therapeutic services. To educate the general public on the subject of mental health.

Objects

(1)TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR WOMEN WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY MEANS OF THERAPEUTIC SERVICES (11)TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE SUBJECT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Area of benefit: ISLINGTON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £34,328 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £708,024 and expenditure of £673,696. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £269,870, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover operating costs for more than three months, aligning with their stated policy target of retaining reserves for 3 to 6 months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Meera Nairchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ayan Man
• Gabriele Ruth Duesberg
• Karen Greenidge-Hutchinson
• Liberty Pattison
• Marina Djomina
• Rumina Taylor
• Tabia Farhin Salam
• Valentine Del Giudice

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• THE MINSTER CENTRE income £2.0m
• THE MAYTREE RESPITE CENTRE income £249k
• WOMANKIND income £749k
• MERSEY COUNSELLING AND THERAPY CENTRE income £250k
• THE WOMEN & FAMILIES RESOURCE CENTRE income £85k

Side by side with its peers

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