STUDENT MINDS

Registered charity 1142783 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SRSH, STUDENT RUN SELF HELP

No student should be held back by their mental health.We empower students to build their own mental health toolkit to support themselves and their peers.We challenge the higher education sector, health sector and government to make student mental health a priority.We're improving university communities so that every student gets the mental health support they need to reach their goals.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PREVENTION AND PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AMONG STUDENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall planned deficit of £206,296 for the year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £336,118. Per the trustees' report, this decline is attributed to the end of two major grants and strategic workforce reductions, though the trustees remain confident in the organization's resilience and ability to reach a surplus by 2028.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (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.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Channel 4, CALM and Student Minds to host a special screening and Q&A in London for the finale of Big Boys on University Mental Health Day on 13 March 2025 channel4.com · 03/03/2025

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Student Minds (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% 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: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aglaia Freccero
• Amelia Ireland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aneeska Sohal
• Arun Kumar Verma
• Beena Adatia
• Elia Mikaela Chalwe Chitwa
• Elizabeth Anna Pring
• Helen Wiseman
• Jenith Auxian Minto Jothi Felix
• Oliver Luke Rhys Thomas
• Peter Nicholas Hugh Beech
• Professor Juliet Louise Hallam Foster
• Richard Smith

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• SOLENT MIND income £11.6m
• MY LIFE income £444k
• UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION income £4.8m
• MIND WITH HEART income £22k
• OPENMIND.ED income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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