MIND IN KINGSTON

Registered charity 1076791 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mind in Kingston is a user-led charity that provides mental health support to people with lived experience of mental health issues in and around the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Services include clinical support, physical activities, creative projects, peer-led groups, independent living, drop-in cafe, advice and information, campaigning and user involvement.

Objects

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 WITHIN AN AREA CENTRED ON THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHARITY MIND AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY MIND.

Area of benefit: KINGSTON UPON THAMES

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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Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £233,011 for the year, resulting in total funds falling to £14,979 from £247,990 the previous year. The trustees planned for this moderate deficit to support staff investments and are focusing on increasing income to preserve solvency. Per the trustees' report, the charity is planning to increase reserve levels towards its policy target after allocating reserves to support transitional structural changes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ark Accountancy Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mind in Kingston (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Mitchellchair
• Carmel Mary Blair
• Emilia Malgorzata Grodzka
• Harriet Fairhurst
• Mahsa Rahbari Aghdam
• Nicola Kim Watkins
• Owain Emrys Griffiths
• Rebecca Joanne Richmond · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• Darlington Mind income £851k
• MIND IN HARINGEY income £1.4m
• MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE income £1.0m
• MIND IN CROYDON LTD income £2.3m
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k

Side by side with its peers

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