HEREFORDSHIRE MIND

Registered charity 701260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEREFORDSHIRE MIND ASSOCIATION

We want a better life for people with experience of mental distress so they can live full lives and play their part in society. We work with people in a variety of ways and settings to help overcome barriers to engaging in the community and to encourage them to move forward to achieving their potential and aspirations.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING AND REHABILITATING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT IN THE FORMER COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE AND ENVIRONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH MIND (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL HEALTH) AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF MIND.

Area of benefit: FORMER COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE AND ENVIRONS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £62,927 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by total expenditure of £1,008,219 against total income of £945,292. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to a surplus of £240,398, which exceeds the stated policy target of approximately £84,000 (one month of expenditure). The charity remains dependent on diverse funding sources and faces ongoing pressures from increased operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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 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.

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 09/02/2022, 9 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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £49k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Herefordshire Mind — Deregistered, 4 registered locations, last inspected 15/06/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN WILCOX
• ANDREW EDGER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Last
• Dr SUSAN LAMERTON
• HANNAH JANE SAMPSON
• KERRY ANN DIAMOND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katharine Stones
• Paul Dawson

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Shropshire · Worcestershire

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 OXFORDSHIRE MIND.

• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• WILTSHIRE MIND income £188k
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• CARDIFF MIND LTD income £1.6m
• BRECON AND DISTRICT MIND income £353k
• HILLINGDON MIND income £786k

Side by side with its peers

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