ISLINGTON MIND

Registered charity 294535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

providing day services, employment training, counselling and advocacy to people with mental health problems; campaigning on mental health issues

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND SAFE GUARDING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE, MAY OR HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR ILL HEALTH.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £955,979 in free unrestricted reserves, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months' running costs (£837,740). The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02002508

What the charity says about itself (2024-2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BOND, Oliver — director, appointed 28/02/2025on trustee list
• KABASEKE, Brenda — director, appointed 01/09/2022on trustee list
• HAYWOOD, Felicity — director, appointed 09/06/2021on trustee list
• PODOLCZUK, Roman — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• SAMUELS, Janice — director, appointed 25/01/2019not on trustee list
• MACGILLIVRAY, Anna — director, appointed 16/01/2005not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GWENDOLYN SYLVIA WILLIAMSchair
• ANNA MCGILLIVRAY
• Brenda Kabaseke
• FELICITY HAYWOOD
• Janice Samuels
• Oliver Bond
• ROMAN PODOLCZUK

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE.

• MIND IN BRIGHTON & HOVE income £1.0m
• DONCASTER MIND income £825k
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k
• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• WASHINGTON MIND CIO income £985k
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MIND income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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