KIDS IN MIND

Registered charity 1151610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CYRIL PASKIN MEMORIAL TRUST, THE PASKIN CHILDREN'S TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC054601 (OSCR)

To provide, or assist in the provision of facilities for health recreation, education, leisure, and to provide funds for medical research, in the United Kingdom, for children and youth who by reason of their age, infirmity, disability, poverty or economic circumstances, may have need of such facilities with the object of improving their conditions of life.

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BY ENABLING AND EMPOWERING EVERYONE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TO LIVE WITH, MANAGE AND RECOVER FROM THEIR CONDITION.(II) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS IN THE UK AND BRITISH ISLES SUCH FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF YOUTH AGE INFIRMITY OR RECREATION OR DISABLEMENT POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE BENEFICIARIES.(III) TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT MAY HAVE NEED OF SUCH ASSISTANCE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSON.(IV) To advance the education of children and young people, in particular but not exclusively by providing educational resources, activities, and support that enhance learning and development.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total funds decreased to £739,757, with unrestricted funds standing at £799,252. The filing notes that a significant portion of total funds (£487,389) consists of donated toys held in stock and is not available to meet running costs, while cash at bank was £258,168. The trustees consider the period the strongest in the charity's history, having exceeded fundraising targets and delivered services on a larger scale than previously reached.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Milton Avis LLP. Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08389165 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: KIDS IN MIND TRADING LTD Companies House 16274415 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julian Margolin — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Gordon Moulds — Deputy CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• LUCAS, Norani — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• FISH, Jeremy Peter — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• MCINALLY-KIER, Mairiona — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• MACLEOD, Finlay John — director, appointed 30/04/2025on trustee list
• MACK, Kevin Howard — director, appointed 03/02/2025on trustee list
• METZER, Anthony David Erwin — director, appointed 03/02/2025on trustee list
• BEAVER, Christina Maria — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• MANN, Anthony Simon — director, appointed 24/02/2014on trustee list
• MOULDS, Gordon — director, appointed 05/02/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Mannchair
• Anthony David Erwin Metzer
• Christina Maria Beaver
• Finlay J MacLeod
• GORDON MOULDS
• Jeremy Fish
• Kevin Howard Mack · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mairiona McInally-Kier
• Norani Lucas

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 KIDS.

• KIDS income £9.4m
• KIDS CARE LONDON income £780k
• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m
• KIDS-IN-ACTION income £443k
• MARITIME CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £234k
• MICHAEL CRAWFORD CHILDRENS CHARITY income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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