BIGMOOSE

Registered charity 1179222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a mental health charity that provides early and timely intervention for people struggling with their mental health. We provide therapy to people and work to help people with their mental health, reduce homelessness and prevent suicide. We fundraise through events and people individually fundraising.

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Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity experienced a 130.5% year-on-year increase in referrals and secured a new three-year lease for funded office space to maintain low overheads. Per the trustees' report, the organization focuses on diversifying revenue streams through events and grants to meet rising demand for therapy services.

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.3m
Cost of raising funds
£307k
Reserves (reported)
£1.0m
Employees
7

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 21.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cardiff

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£1.5m£1.3m
31/07/2024£1.3m£728k
31/07/2023£614k£381k
31/07/2022£162k£106k
31/07/2021£28k£5k

Common questions

Is BIGMOOSE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity experienced a 130.5% year-on-year increase in referrals and secured a new three-year lease for funded office space to maintain low overheads. Per the trustees' report, the organization focuses on diversifying revenue streams through events and grants to meet rising demand for therapy services. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BIGMOOSE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BIGMOOSE as a grant recipient include The Peter Willmott Foundation, THE OAKDALE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
The Peter Willmott FoundationFY2025£6kProviding early and timely intervention for people struggling with their mental health by providing therapy and work to help people with their mental health, re
THE OAKDALE TRUSTFY2023£750

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund25/09/2024£20ksuicide prevention in business
The National Lottery Community Fund24/05/2023£10kWALES COL - accessible mental health support
Postcode Lottery27/05/2022£25kProject1million
The National Lottery Community Fund18/02/2022£10kbigmoose
The National Lottery Community Fund23/10/2020£9kCOVID-19 - bigmoose
The National Lottery Community Fund09/09/2019£6kbigmoose supertri 4

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 THE MOORLAND MOUSIE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BIGMOOSE£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE MOORLAND MOUSIE TRUST FY2025£151k—0unclear—noted
MIGRANT OFFSHORE AID STATION (MOAS) UK FY2025£257k——unclear—no doubt
BURY INVOLVEMENT GROUP IN MENTAL HEALTH FY2025£501k—0unclear—no doubt
MOORLANDS HOME LINK FY2025£306k—0unclear—noted
MOLLY ROSE FOUNDATION FY2024£2.2m—0unclear—no doubt

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