TOUGH ENOUGH TO CARE

Registered charity 1187404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We give help, support and advice to those struggling with their mental health by offering weekly peer support groups and online and face to face mental health campaigns to reduce stigma. We also deliver mental health talks to volunteer organisations, sports clubs and male dominated work environments and react to those in crisis situations to help them access professional services.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF MEN WHO ARE EXPERIENCING ISSUES DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO HELP AID THEIR RECOVERY AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TO HELP AND ASSIST PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILL HEALTH.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £34,853 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £189,854 to £155,001. The trustees report that the charity remains in a strong financial position to continue its work despite reduced income and increased costs. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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 31/12/2025 (received 02/11/2026, 2 days after the 31/10/2026 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 — Tough Enough To Care (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander John Elphick
• Emma Christine Priest
• Matthew Loftus
• Victoria Louise Bratt

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOUGH TO TALK.

• TOUGH TO TALK income £108k
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• HOPE CHARITY PROJECT income £36k
• SHARE PSYCHOTHERAPY income £262k
• ANDOVER MIND income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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