WEST KENT MIND

Registered charity 1044977 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEVENOAKS AREA MIND

Provision of a range of support, recovery and wellbeing services for people with mental health problems including community services, social activities, counselling, peer support and therapeutic groups. The charity also provides training for other agencies and helps to raise awareness and overcome the stigma and discrimination experienced by people with mental health problems.

Objects

The objects for which the Association is established are, within the area of Sevenoaks (except Swanley and the Northern Parishes), Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge & Malling and across Kent in collaboration with other Mind organisations: (a) to promote the preservation of mental health and to assist in relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental disorder or conditions of emotional or mental distress requiring advice or treatment; and(b) to promote the study of and research into mental health disorder and emotional or mental distress and to obtain and make records of and disseminate to the public the useful results of such research and to educate the public in matters relating to mental health.

Area of benefit: SEVENOAKS AND DISTRICT

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

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

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £126,239 for the year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £148,961. Per the trustees' report, this level is below the ideal policy target of six months' operating expenditure (£315,000) but exceeds the minimum requirement for a controlled closure (£125,000). The trustees maintain that the going concern basis is appropriate based on approved budgets and cash flow forecasts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2025) → 0 (FY2026).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03026457

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — West Kent Mind (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.

• PUGSLEY, Brian — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• DAVIES, Stephanie Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• CLARK, Graham Fraser — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
• DAVEY, Ella — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
• BROOKMAN, Peter David — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
• INGRAM, Sarah Jane — secretary, appointed 09/12/2025

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Clarkchair
• Brian Pugsley
• Ella Davey
• Peter David Brookman
• Stephanie Davies

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with South Kent Mind.

• South Kent Mind income £577k
• BRECON AND DISTRICT MIND income £353k
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• MIND IN BEXLEY AND EAST KENT LTD income £6.8m
• OPENMIND.ED income £34k
• ISLINGTON MIND income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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