THE MAIDSTONE MEDIATION AND REPARATION SCHEME

Registered charity 1052104 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAIDSTONE MEDIATION

We offer mediation services for neighbours, victim and offenders, parents and teenagers, anger management and peer mediation in schools. All these in the Maidstone Council area and part of the Tonbridge & Malling Council area.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND FOR THE BETTER PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR REPARATION BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS OR GROUPS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN DISPUTES ARISING FROM CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OR INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Latest income

£43k

Latest spending

£59k

Registered

1996

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss for the year of £15,849.55, reducing its total unrestricted reserves to £39,817.82. The trustees report that these reserves are within the current target range based on 12 months of total unrestricted incoming resources. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charity's affairs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months of total unrestricted incoming resources (reserves figure: £40k)

“The unrestricted reserves amounted to £39,817.82 as at 31 March 2025, which is within the current target range based on 1 2 months of total unrestricted incoming resources.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £19,900 — contracts £9,950 (2), grants £9,950 (2); 46% of the £42,806 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £24,000 — contracts £12,000 (2), grants £12,000 (2); 54% of the £44,136 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £10,360 — contracts £10,360 (2); 23% of the £45,100 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/05/2024, 105 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/03/2023, 29 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

Transferred assets to another charity (11/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£43k	£59k
31/03/2024	£44k	£61k
31/03/2023	£45k	£63k
31/03/2022	£77k	£82k
31/03/2021	£50k	£83k

Common questions

Is THE MAIDSTONE MEDIATION AND REPARATION SCHEME financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss for the year of £15,849.55, reducing its total unrestricted reserves to £39,817.82. The trustees report that these reserves are within the current target range based on 12 months of total unrestricted incoming resources. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charity's affairs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/08/2019	£10k	Family and Peer Mediation Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/01/2013	£2k	Stress Busters
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/04/2011	£4k	Training and Supporting Volunteer Mediators
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/01/2006	£4k	Social Awareness and Inclusion

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
HAMPTON FUEL ALLOTMENT	1	£58k
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£42k
Richmond Foundation	1	£20k
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUST	1	£10k
THE WEAVERS' COMPANY BENEVOLENT FUND	1	£10k
The Barnes Fund	1	£5k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MID MEDIATION AND COUNSELLING LTD.

MID MEDIATION AND COUNSELLING LTD income £200k
PORTSMOUTH MEDIATION SERVICE income £223k
WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE income £103k
MEDIATION PLUS income £264k
The Family Mediation Trust income £395k
CALM MEDIATION income £589k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE MAIDSTONE MEDIATION AND REPARATION SCHEME	£43k	—	within	—	no doubt
MID MEDIATION AND COUNSELLING LTD FY2026	£200k	—	within	—	no doubt
PORTSMOUTH MEDIATION SERVICE FY2026	£223k	—	above	—	no doubt
WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE FY2025	£103k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MEDIATION PLUS FY2025	£264k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
The Family Mediation Trust FY2025	£395k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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