Darlington Mind

Registered charity 1093140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DARLINGTON MIND LIMITED

Darlington Mind exists to assist people with mental health issues to realise their potential in life through support. advice, information, supported housing, rehabilitation, training, counselling, care, mentoring and personal development. A range of projects and initiatives assists over 1000 people pa across Darlington, South Durham, Hambleton and Richmondshire.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT, IN ASSOCIATION WITH MIND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF MIND.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE DARLINGTON AND SOUTH DURHAM

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Darlington, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operational loss of £28,166 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by ongoing cost increases in utilities, wages, and operating expenses alongside a reduction in statutory income. Despite this loss, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £750,107, which significantly exceed its stated Emergency Operating Reserve target of £307,941, and maintains cash holdings of £319,216 sufficient to cover immediate operational needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Gordon LLP. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 04433988

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Darlington 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.

• VICKERMAN, Martin Chritchley — director, appointed 30/07/2025on trustee list
• BENNETT, Keith — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• MANNERS, Trisha — director, appointed 28/03/2023on trustee list
• DALTON, Dena Liane — director, appointed 19/08/2021on trustee list
• HODGSON, Catherine — director, appointed 19/08/2021on trustee list
• SOANE, Joanne — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• DOOLAN, Carl — director, appointed 21/01/2020on trustee list
• LANGRICK, Richard, Dr — director, appointed 26/05/2015on trustee list
• PEARS, Melanie Louise — director, appointed 02/12/2014on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Simon George William — secretary, appointed 17/12/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £285k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 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 (93% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dena Daltonchair
• CARL DOOLAN
• Catherine Hodgson
• DR Richard Langrick
• Joanne Soane
• Keith Bennett
• Martin Vickerman
• Melanie Pears
• Trisha Manners

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIND IN HARINGEY.

• MIND IN HARINGEY income £1.4m
• HAVERING MIND income £1.9m
• DONCASTER MIND income £825k
• MIND IN KINGSTON income £808k
• DERBYSHIRE MIND income £757k
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k

Side by side with its peers

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