ROTHERHAM AND BARNSLEY MIND

Registered charity 1147740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In the Rotherham and Barnsley areas:-To provide services for people with mental health problems and for their relatives and carersTo work in an inclusive and empowering mannerTo develop public awareness of mental health mattersTo further the social, psychological and emotional well being of people with a mental health problemTo work within the philosophy and ethos of National Mind

Objects

Objects4. The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following: (a). to promote the preservation of mental health in particular by enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and recover from their condition (b). to relieve the needs of people with mental health problems by: working to increase the understanding of mental health and mental health problems by gathering and disseminating information; working to raise awareness, promote under-standing and challenge stigma and discrimination. in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Rotherham and Barnsley and elsewhere, subject to the provisions of Schedule 8 of the Mind Federation Agreement 2021 and any revisions thereto. [Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.]

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the organisation remained financially stable through prudent management despite income volatility and rising costs. Net assets decreased from £729,426 to £671,874, with unrestricted reserves falling from £126,489 to £100,329. The trustees report that work is underway to diversify income while protecting service quality.

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 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03616409

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rotherham and Barnsley Mind (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUXTON, Marc — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• DALLIMORE, Emma Louise — director, appointed 29/11/2024on trustee list
• AINSBURY, Christine — director, appointed 02/03/2021on trustee list
• GARLINGTON, Ian James — director, appointed 02/03/2021on trustee list
• BLAND, Angela Mary — director, appointed 10/11/2016on trustee list
• MARKS, Michael Raymond — director, appointed 08/06/2000on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £296k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Bland
• Christine Ainsbury
• Dawn O'Hara
• Emma Dallimore
• Ian James Garlington
• MICHAEL RAYMOND MARKS
• Marc Buxton

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Rotherham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH).

• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE income £1.0m
• NORTH EAST WALES MIND income £503k
• RICHMOND BOROUGH MIND income £1.9m
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• ROCHDALE AND DISTRICT MIND income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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