BRISTOL MIND

Registered charity 1085171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The company provides a range of high quality services which are reflective and relevant to the needs of the mental health service user community, combats stigma and promotes a positive image of mental health and works in partnership with service users and other agencies to secure the widest range of services are available that best matches the needs of the service user community.

Objects

(1) To promote the preservation of good mental health in particular by enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and recover from their condition.(2) To relieve the needs of people with mental health problems by working to increase the understanding of mental health and mental health problems by gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness, promote understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE CITY OF BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £18,389 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total net assets increasing to £263,072. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £231,131 are sufficient to cover five months of operating costs against the 2025/26 budget. The charity confirmed it has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04124744

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bristol 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.

• LONGSDALE, Debra Caroline — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• PANNELL, Jeremy William — director, appointed 16/01/2026on trustee list
• CHEUNG, Yan Yi Shania — director, appointed 14/01/2026on trustee list
• MORGAN, Mo — director, appointed 08/08/2024on trustee list
• DAVIS, Victoria Jane — director, appointed 05/08/2024on trustee list
• MIGUEL LAZARO, Ana — director, appointed 02/08/2024not on trustee list
• DIAMOND, Joanne — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
• MASON, Sally Jane — director, appointed 31/05/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ana Miguel Lazaro
• Debra Caroline Longsdale
• Jeremy William Pannell
• Joanne Diamond
• Mo Morgan
• Sally Jane Mason
• Victoria Davis
• Yan Yi Shania Cheung

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

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 DONCASTER MIND.

• DONCASTER MIND income £825k
• BATH MIND income £4.0m
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k
• South East London Mind Limited income £8.3m
• BRAVE MIND income £103k
• MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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