MIND OVER MOUNTAINS

Registered charity 1190883 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MIND OVER MOUNTAINS CIC

Mind Over Mountains is a charity restoring well-being naturally through life-changing therapeutic outdoor experiences.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND MINDFULNESS ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING ACCREDITED ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT IN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS

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: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £51,162 on total income of £399,550 for the year ended 31 May 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £74,924, which the trustees confirm is in line with their policy of maintaining between two and four months of budgeted operating expenditure.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mind Over Mountains (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust — “The Trust is supporting Mind Over Mountains for a 3 year period helping fund bursary places on our mental wellbeing programmes” (source page)
• The Westgrove Group — “As founding patron, Westgrove has pledged its support to Mind Over Mountains since 2022 with the aim of proving people with access to the me…” (source page)
• The Blue Light Card Foundation — “The Blue Light Card Foundation helps make our work with emergency responders and the wider blue light community possible.” (source page)
• The Clare Foundation — “We are delighted that the Clare Foundation is funding wellbeing walks with us across Buckinghamshire to support the mental wellbeing of loca…” (source page)
• Inghams — “They’ve been supporting the charity through funding, volunteer work & more.” (source page)
• The Brothers Trust — “Alongside financial grants, TBT also helps raise awareness for the charities it supports through its significant social media presence.” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “We are delighted that The National Lottery Fund is supporting the expansion of Mind Over Mountains mental health support work across Wales. …” (source page)
• Derbyshire Mind — “Derbyshire Mind has generously supported the work of Mind Over Mountains by funding a number of our mental wellbeing walks in the Peak Distr…” (source page)
• Cumbria Community Foundation — “This support from Cumbria Community Foundation is helping us to bring our work to the communities of NW Cumbria” (source page)
• St James's Place — “St James’s Place Charitable Foundation is kindly supporting our 2024 programme of walks in the Lake District.” (source page)
• Friends of the Lake District — “Friends of the Lake District have generously supported our 2024 wellbeing walks in the Lake District through their Nurtured by Nature progra…” (source page)
• Bath House Group — “Bath House is a Cumbria-based maker of artisan fragrances and natural skincare, and have supported us since 2023.” (source page)
• KE Adventure Travel — “Adventure travel experts KE Adventure have supported us generously with donations and team fundraising since 2023.” (source page)
• TOG24 — “Through this partnership, TOG24 is helping to fund our professionally supported mental wellbeing walks across Yorkshire and throughout the U…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Whiteheadchair
• ALEXANDER STANIFORTH
• Abiola Aderibigbe
• Celia Jeffreys
• Claire Houghton
• Garry Pratt
• Giles Thurston
• Katie Smith
• Nathan Norris
• Olivia D'Silva
• William Howarth

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

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k
• HAVERING MIND income £1.9m
• TENDRING MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT income £1.0m
• SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
• MATES IN MIND income £724k

Side by side with its peers

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