MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH)

Registered charity 219830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3314763 · Wikipedia · also known as MIND, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH

We provide information and support, campaign to improve policy and attitudes and, in partnership with independent local Minds, develop and provide local services.

Objects

A)TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BY ENABLING AND EMPOWERING EVERYONE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TO LIVE WITH, MANAGE AND RECOVER FROM THEIR CONDITION.B)TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY WORKING TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY GATHERING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION AND WORKING TO RAISE AWARENESS, PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGE STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that Mind incurred a net deficit of £16.0m for the year, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves from £38.5m to £22.2m. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate plans and sufficient cash and reserves to continue operations even under downside scenarios reflecting reduced income. The filing notes that this drawdown on reserves is part of a planned strategic expenditure period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

129 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £150k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Mind scores 1.5/5 from 117 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (628,242 likes) · instagram (576K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clarke Carlislechair
• Cynthia Tze Keng Ko
• Dr Shubulade Smith
• Dr Tarlochan Toor
• Jonathan Huish
• Judith Elizabeth Trenier
• Kevin Francis Corrigan
• Lynette Charles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mrs Valerie Harrison
• Ms Philippa Glucklich
• Sami Rahman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Roy Hill

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

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

• LANCASHIRE MIND LIMITED income £2.5m
• MIND IN MID HERTS income £1.4m
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• Teesside Mind Limited income £5.1m
• CARDIFF MIND LTD income £1.6m
• ROCHDALE AND DISTRICT MIND income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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