YOUNG MINDS TRUST

Registered charity 1016968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536048 · also known as YOUNG MINDS · also registered in Scotland as SC039700 (OSCR)

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Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY (THE ¶OBJECTS÷) ARE:-(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BODIES AND AGENCIES, ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES AND MENTAL DISTRESS EXPERIENCED BY CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES, AND ABOUT THE ALLEVIATION AND PREVENTION THEREOF; AND(B) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING OR ARE AFFECTED BY, OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING OR BEING AFFECTED BY, EMOTIONAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES OR MENTAL DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure of £9.7 million exceeded total income, resulting in a deficit for the year. However, the charity maintains free unrestricted reserves of £3.9 million, which the trustees report represents 4.9 months of applicable expenditure, falling within their stated policy target of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Hampshire siblings climb Ben Nevis for Young Minds Trust inyourarea.co.uk · 16/11/2020

Funders the charity credits

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

• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “The Paul Hamlyn Foundation have been working with us since November 2015, initially supporting our youth engagement work and providing fundi…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 32.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Hope
• Catherine Hogan
• Gayathri Radhakrishnan Butler
• KORANMAAH HEIDI BOAHEN
• Memunat Ayinla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael MacKay
• OLUGBENGA COKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tara Lily Melling
• Veronika Neyer
• Vilma Nikolaidou

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 KIDS TRUST.

• KIDS TRUST income £57k
• THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST income £11.5m
• YOUTH EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY income £70k
• YOUTH OPTIONS income £3.8m
• YOUTH CONCERN income £879k
• YOUNG CONCERN TRUST income £717k

Side by side with its peers

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