MIND IN WEST ESSEX

Registered charity 1091154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARLOW MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT LTD, HARLOW MIND, WEST ESSEX MIND

Our purpose is to empower people experiencing mental health problems or emotional distress. We work towards the development & maintenance of a comprehensive mental health service that meets needs & aspirations, & promotes mental health awareness in our community.

Objects

Objects The charity’s ‘Objects’ are specifically restricted to the following: 1) To promote the preservation of good mental health in particular by enabling and empowering people experiencing ill mental health to live with, manage and recover from their condition. 2) To raise awareness of issues related to mental health, to promote understanding and to challenge stigma and discrimination. 3) To operate primarily within the region of West Essex, but also in other areas of the UK.

Area of benefit: ESSEX

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harlow, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £194,659 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £1,195,643. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £274,818 are in line with the stated policy target of covering six months of core expenditure (£262,662). The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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 West Essex (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £125k. 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 ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Timothy Alan Cronechair
• Alan Wellbelove
• Anja De Vos
• GARY HYAMS
• Jackie Anslow
• ROBIN STRUBE
• SYLVIA HAYES

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• MINDSTEP FOUNDATION income £60k
• HEREFORDSHIRE MIND income £945k
• MIND IN BEXLEY AND EAST KENT LTD income £6.8m
• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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