BRAVE MIND

Registered charity 1193710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We deliver mental health programmes to the rugby and sporting community, building teams of mental health champions and providing a safe environment to educate on mental health, split into different areas for discussion. For example: what is mental health? Dealing with stress etc. We also provide Mental Health First Aid training via our support network of qualified trainers.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILL HEALTH IN THE SPORT OF RUGBY, BY WORKING TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH WITHIN THE SPORT OF RUGBY AND RUGBY CLUBS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION ON MENTAL HEALTH, PROVIDING TRAINING ON MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID AND THROUGH ACTING AS A RESOURCE FOR RUGBY CLUBS ON ALL MATTERS PERTAINING TO MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND EDUCATION.

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

Latest income

£103k

Latest spending

£81k

Registered

2021

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £21,600 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income increasing by 98% to £102,762. Unrestricted reserves stood at £35,503, and the Trustees confirmed that no material uncertainties exist 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

Payments to trustees: Trustee S Trower received £1,440 for consultancy services.

“One current trustee, Mr S Trower, was paid on an ad-hoc consultancy basis during the year for services provided to the charity. The amount paid was £1,440” — page 14

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustee S Trower paid £1,440 for ad-hoc consultancy services.

“One current trustee, Mr S Trower, was paid on an ad-hoc consultancy basis during the year for services provided to the charity. The amount paid was £1,440” — page 14

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

David Lewis Cockramchair
Dr Daniel Robert Frederick Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
Elizabeth Nolan
George Oliver James Angel
Graeme Richard Tottle
Juliette Gillard
Kathleen Elizabeth Bennett
Mark Ashley Coles
Oliver Sindall
Sarah Williamson
Taja Wright

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£103k	£81k
31/12/2024	£50k	£85k
31/12/2023	£96k	£29k
31/12/2022	£54k	£36k
31/12/2021	£20k	£16k

Common questions

Is BRAVE MIND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £21,600 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income increasing by 98% to £102,762. Unrestricted reserves stood at £35,503, and the Trustees confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BRAVE MIND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BRAVE MIND as a grant recipient include THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, BERKSHIRE NURSES AND RELIEF IN SICKNESS TRUST, WASPS LEGENDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES	FY2025	£10k	National Suicide Prevention Network
BERKSHIRE NURSES AND RELIEF IN SICKNESS TRUST	FY2025	£5k
BERKSHIRE NURSES AND RELIEF IN SICKNESS TRUST	FY2026	Unverified read£5k
WASPS LEGENDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£4k

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH)	4	£7.4m
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	2	£48k
QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	2	£33k
THE STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£707k
THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£260k
The Caledonia Investments Charitable Foundation	1	£161k
GIVENGAIN UK FOUNDATION	1	£73k
THE MEDLOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£40k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MATES IN MIND.

MATES IN MIND income £724k
SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
BATH MIND income £4.0m
HAVERING MIND income £1.9m
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
BRISTOL MIND income £571k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRAVE MIND	£103k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MATES IN MIND FY2025	£724k	—	—	below	—	no doubt
SPORT IN MIND FY2026	£1.7m	—	0	within	—	no doubt
BATH MIND FY2025	£4.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HAVERING MIND FY2026	£1.9m	£70,001 - £80,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FY2025	£28.2m	£110,001 - £120,000	—	above	—	no doubt

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