NORTH KENT MIND

Registered charity 1103790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DARTFORD GRAVESHAM & SWANLEY MIND

North Kent Mind Mind works with people with mental health problems living in the North Kent and Medway areas of Kent to effect personal and social change.

Objects

I) 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 IN DARTFORD, GRAVESHAM AND SWANLEY IN ASSOCIATION WITH MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) (HEREINAFTER CALLED "MIND") AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF MIND; ANDII) ANY ANCILLARY OBJECTS REQUIRED BY THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION (WHICH MUST CONFORM TO THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF MIND)

Area of benefit: IN DARTFORD, GRAVESHAM AND SWANLEY

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: Dartford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that North Kent Mind reported a net surplus of £75,519 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a significant reduction in income due to the loss of NHS funding. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £954,330, which the trustees consider adequate to cover three months of ongoing expenses and potential closure costs. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 Goldwins Limited. 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/03/2024, 44 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 10/02/2023, 10 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North Kent Mind (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Giles — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Anastasia Ustinova — Deputy CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Richard Watts — “Time To Mind (Richard Watts funding)” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lyndsey Stukalov-Stonechair
• Fatai Oladele Matilukuro-Olanuga
• Jessica Hamill
• Sarah Gow

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• Mid Kent Mind income £686k
• South Kent Mind income £577k
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MIND income £1.3m
• MIND IN BEXLEY AND EAST KENT LTD income £6.8m
• NORTH EAST WALES MIND income £503k
• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m

Side by side with its peers

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