MIND IN SOMERSET
Registered charity 1109626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MIND IN TAUNTON & WEST SOMERSET
Provision of services, advice, support, guidance and information in the field of mental health, but not exclusively and may cover other areas of need.
Objects
TO PROMOTE, PRESERVE AND IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH, BY DELIVERING INCLUSIVE SERVICES, WHICH ENCOMPASS REHABILITATING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS REQUIRING SUPPORT OR ADVICE AND WORKING TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, BY RAISING AWARENESS, PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGING STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION
Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET
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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £24k for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £1,116k. The trustees confirm that core unrestricted reserves of £242k are in line with their stated policy target of covering three months of management and administration costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Charitable activities (77% of income)
“Charitable activities: (77%) £2.63m”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £242k; policy: three months management and administration costs)
“At 31 March 2025 the balance sheet shows core unrestricted funds (free reserves) of £242k, in line with this policy.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
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
- 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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 168
- Government income: £619,292 — contracts £404,625 (3), grants £214,667 (6); 18% of the £3,426,933 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 150
- Government income: £193,465 — grants £193,465 (5); 6% of the £3,485,865 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 116
- Government income: £190,872 — contracts £166,872 (4), grants £24,000 (2); 7% of the £2,894,642 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mind in Somerset (matched by registered charity number).
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.
Property (HM Land Registry)
4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £859k. 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)
Cost of raising funds
£49k
Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (06/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (17/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- GEOFF PATEMANchair
- Chris Norris
- Gregory Stephen Coulson
- Helen Jessica Mead Loxton
- Hugh Christopher Andrews
- Lynda Marie Kerr Marshall
- Margaret Geatches
- Nigel Spencer Stone
- Rebecca Jane Miles · trustee of 1 other charity
- Rowan Brooks
- Rowen Campbell
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Devon · Dorset · North Somerset · Somerset
Income and spending
Common questions
Is MIND IN SOMERSET financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £24k for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £1,116k. The trustees confirm that core unrestricted reserves of £242k are in line with their stated policy target of covering three months of management and administration costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited.
Who funds MIND IN SOMERSET?
Funders whose own accounts filings name MIND IN SOMERSET as a grant recipient include MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH), THE WOLFSON FOUNDATION, SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, SPIELMAN CHARITABLE TRUST, THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATION.
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).
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