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.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts
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
Reserves policy: 3 months of the following year’s budgeted fixed costs (held: £336k)
“altering the requirements to retain unrestricted reserves from 6 months to 3 months of the following year’s budgeted fixed costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Purchases from Trustees for services outside trustee role
“There were purchases of £15,986 (2024: £12,039) from two Trustees (2024: three Trustees) in respect of services provided outside of their role as Trustee.” — page 37
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
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.
In the news
Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Student Minds (matched by registered charity number).
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£115k
Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- 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.
- 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
Is STUDENT MINDS financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.
Who funds STUDENT MINDS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name STUDENT MINDS as a grant recipient include THE PRUDENCE TRUST, UPP FOUNDATION, JOAN AINSLIE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE LUTHERAN COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN, CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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