START IN SALFORD

Registered charity 1078837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q24060266

START is a Salford based mental health charity that uses creativity, connection and recovery interventions to help improve people's lives. We are passionate about delivering the very best support for the people in our community who we are lucky enough to meet through our work and providing them with pathways into training, employment, volunteering and leisure pursuits.

Objects

TO PURSUE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE THAT IMPROVES THE HEALTH, WELLBEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE FROM SALFORD AND THE WIDER NORTH WEST REGION WHO? (A) ARE AT RISK OF SUFFERING, HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS; (B) ARE OTHERWISE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED; IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: I) THE PROMOTION OF ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES; AND II) RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE GRADE 2 LISTED BUILDING BRUNSWICK HOUSE AND PROVIDING FOR ITS USE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD AND THE WIDER NORTH WEST REGION.

Area of benefit: SALFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Salford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's turnover increased to £1,576,162, with total funds carried forward rising to £823,367. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £790,499, supported by secured contracts and diverse funding streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03785437 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: START CREATIVE - HAND CRAFTED IN SALFORD LTD Companies House 07988221 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reach Out; Start to end suicide (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.

• THOMLINSON, Clare Elizabeth Louise — director, appointed 29/04/2026on trustee list
• MIDDLEMISS, John — director, appointed 01/12/2025on trustee list
• LETENEY, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• ROSSON, Lyndsey, Dr — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• BEAUMONT-LAURENCIA, Hannah Nicole — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Thomlinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Lyndsey Rosson
• Hannah Beaumont-Laurencia
• John Middlemiss
• Sarah Leteney

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Salford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 START NETWORK.

• START NETWORK income £52.2m
• FRESH START FUTURE ENTERPRISES LIMITED income £163k
• STUDENTS AND REFUGEES TOGETHER (START) income £407k
• THE SAFE START FOUNDATION income £69k
• STARTING OUT CHARITY income £165k
• MIND IN SALFORD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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