DONCASTER MIND

Registered charity 1141146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support and services for people vulnerable, or experiencing, mental illhealth or emotional distress. These services currently include:Day Services, Befriending, Counselling, |Supported Accommodation, Information and Advice.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, WITHIN THE AREA OF DONCASTER:(A) 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; AND(B) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER AND EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS AND TO OBTAIN AND MAKE RECORDS OF AND DISSEMINATE TO THE PUBLIC THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £26,885 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted free reserves standing at £533,340. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are above the stated policy target of approximately £350,000, which is calculated as three months of running costs plus estimated staff notice and redundancy costs.

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 6 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
• 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 — Doncaster Mind (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Symon
• Daniel Jay Saunders
• David Smith
• Ian Williams
• James Hoogwerf
• Marie Banks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Howard Jones
• Rebecca Barbara Roberts
• Scott Carrick

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

Operates in: Doncaster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BRISTOL MIND.

• BRISTOL MIND income £571k
• BRECON AND DISTRICT MIND income £353k
• ISLINGTON MIND income £1.9m
• DORSET MIND income £1.1m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MIND income £1.3m
• ANDOVER MIND income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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