STATE OF MIND SPORT

Registered charity 1158826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote positive mental health among our sportsmen and women, fans and wider communities, and ultimately to prevent suicide. We raise awareness of the issues surrounding mental health and well being and deliver education on the subject to all levels of sport, business, education and community groups.We signpost individuals to where they can receive care and support in their area.

Objects

1. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON ALL ISSUES SURROUNDING MENTAL HEALTH IN AN EFFORT TO TACKLE DISCRIMINATION AND TO REDUCE THE STIGMA FELT BY PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SPECIFIC TO, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR PROBLEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF RUGBY LEAGUE OR SPORT MORE GENERALLY.2. THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY ADVANCING EDUCATION IN MENTAL FITNESS AND WELLBEING AND SIGNPOSTING TO WHERE SOURCES OF SUPPORT ARE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY BE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS.

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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Registered contact address: Salford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted reserves of £89,686 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from £173,856 the previous year. The trustees report that the charity is not subject to an audit and is eligible for independent examination, with no matters coming to the examiner's attention that require drawing to the trustees' attention.

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 4 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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 30/11/2024 (received 01/10/2025, 1 day after the 30/09/2025 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — State of Mind Sport (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clair Carsonchair
• Andy Hymers
• James Howes
• Kara Colvin
• Karen Godfrey
• Nicholas Spencer Rowe
• Owen Michael Cotterell
• PHIL COOPER
• Stephen Paul Cash

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPORT IN MIND.

• SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
• HEAD IN THE GAME income £114k
• SPORTINSPIRED LTD income £1.4m
• BRAVE MIND income £103k
• Sporting Wellness income £80k
• OPPORTUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £221k

Side by side with its peers

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