THE BRIGHTON AND HOVE INDEPENDENT MEDIATION SERVICE

Registered charity 1181888 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BHIMS, BRIGHTON AND HOVE INDEPENDENT MEDIATION SERVICE

The Brighton and Hove Independent Mediation Service provides mediation and other conflict resolution services to persons, organisations and groups in and around the City of Brighton and Hove. We also deliver training and educational services that focus on mediation and conflict resolution practices.

Objects

TO PROVIDE, PROMOTE AND FACILITATE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE CITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE:A) MEDIATION AND OTHER FORMS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR CONCILIATION FOR PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS OR GROUPS INVOLVED, OR LIKELY TO BE COME INVOLVED, IN DISPUTE OR INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICT;B) EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN METHODS OF MEDIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF DISPUTES AND THE MEANS TO MANAGE THEM.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £24,636 for the year, with total charitable expenditure of £165,276 exceeding income of £140,640. Despite staffing and wellbeing challenges, the trustees confirmed there were no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Alexander Abazachair
• Andrew Ferguson
• Isabel Portia Elise Harrison
• Laurence Littman
• SUSAN REGI · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEDIATION PLUS.

• MEDIATION PLUS income £264k
• WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE income £103k
• CIVIL MEDIATION COUNCIL LIMITED income £246k
• CALM MEDIATION income £589k
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY MISSION income £380k
• MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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