MINDWORKSUK

Registered charity 1192998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a counselling and psychotherapy charity that provides a low-cost contribution-based service to anyone in need of support, including refugees within communities that would not usually access one to one talking therapies. Our counsellors speak many languages including English, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Arabic, Somali, Pashto, Farsi, French, Spanish Portuguese, Polish.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF PEOPLE LIVING IN LONDON AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UK AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE FROM MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF:A) ACCESS TO COUNSELLING AND COACHING, EITHER IN PERSON, ONLINE OR ON THE TELEPHONE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, BUILD CAPACITY AND CONFIDENCE;B) TRAINING TO COUNSELLORS, THERAPISTS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS TO SUPPORT THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES WHICH ARE APPROPRIATE TO MEET THEIR NEEDS; C) THE PROVISION OF A SIGNPOSTING SERVICE TO EXTERNAL SOURCES OF SUPPORT, RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES, AND THE SUPPORT OF OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHOSE WORK INVOLVES ASSISTING MARGINALISED GROUPS OR THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS.

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 MindworksUK secured funding from the Wimbledon Foundation and SWL NHS ICB Wandsworth, while also acquiring new office spaces in Tooting and Bloomsbury to support service delivery. The charity reports ongoing delivery of counselling services and strengthened partnerships with various community and statutory organizations. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause concern regarding the accounts.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SAHAR BEGchair
• ARSHAD HUSSEIN DAUD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ameepurva Thaker
• Sana Zehra Jafri

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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