Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

WEST KENT MIND

Provision of a range of support, recovery and wellbeing services for people with mental health problems including community services, supported housing, counselling and coping with life courses. The chairity also provides training for other agencies and helps to raise awareness and overcome the stigma and discrimination experienced by people with mental health problems.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£880£870£10£0£306£3064.23267
31/03/23£767£892£-126£6£293£2933.93570
31/03/22£721£866£-145£0£421£4215.83770
31/03/21£882£775£107£0£561£5618.73570
31/03/20?£850£827£23£18£445£4376.336110
31/03/18£879£798£81£24£394£3825.7310
31/03/17£670£651£19£23£313£3065.6260
31/03/16£738£701£37£20£288£2804.8260
31/03/15£652£651£1£23£253£2514.6270
31/03/14£518£492£26£24£248£2375.8180
31/03/13£503£466£37£24£221£1985.1100
31/03/12£466£441£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£421£421£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£418£403£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£431£448£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£387£425£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£430£417£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£420£442£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£416£396£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£385£391£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 47%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 30 years

www.westkentmind.org.uk

hello@westkentmind.org.uk

01732744950

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£404,229
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
DCMS£33,888
Sport England£6,611
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Changing Pace
£6,611 25/10/2023
8
The project will support 60 people with mental health problems to take part in regular physical activity. Two mental health support staff will undertake Leadership in Running Fitness training, before delivering activity to six groups at local parks ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,080 20/12/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to West Kent Mind
£1,705 22/10/2022
West Kent Mind's Let's Grow! project involves the delivery of an established allotment project which runs in Shoreham and a peer support gardening group which is delivered at our centre in Sevenoaks.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Minds
£384,323 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to support West Kent Mind to deliver a creativity programme to adults who have a specific mental health diagnosis as well as those who self-identify with loneliness anxiety poor self-esteem or any other mental health issue. ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-West Kent Mind
£5,000 22/06/2022
Towards core costs to help enable the charity to strengthen its organisational capacity to meet the increasing demand for services, especially free, fast-track 6-8 week counselling for victims of domestic abuse and others in critical urgent need.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 18/03/2022
24
Building Foundations
National Lottery Community Fund - Skiffle Express & Chat Room
£10,000 18/03/2022
The funding will be used to run two drop-in interventions operating weekly for the next 12 months to adults who reside in the West Kent area with a mental health need. The aim is to use Skiffle Express which is an inclusive intergenerational adult ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 04/09/2020
Minding our Future
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£33,888 11/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Befrienders
£9,906 03/04/2020
12
The charity will use funding to work with volunteers to create a network of support using digital media to keep in touch with people during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project will help people with mental health problems to stay in contact with a ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 09/10/2017
Community Wellbeing Services
Department of Health - Places of Safety - Crisis Café (Tonbridge) - refurbishment
£8,660 01/04/2017
To refurbish a building to make it fully appropriate for use as a Crisis Café, including a kitchen for the café element.01/03
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to MIND Sevenoaks and District
£66,000 06/05/2015
36
enhancing the charity's capacity to recruit, train and retain more volunteers, at least 50% of whom are former beneficiaries of the charity - as part of their progression from a period of mental ill-health
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to MIND Sevenoaks and District
£36,000 27/01/2012
the salary of the Volunteer Development Coordinator, recruitment, overheads and management costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-73
  • DR JULIE HAMMOND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Salaried Gp And Gp Locum
  • ELLA DAVEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Grants Manager - Charity
  • GRAHAM CLARK (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: N/A
  • JAMES DE PURY Appointed: 2024
  • LAURA ACOSTA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Educator
  • MARIE MARTINA STANLEY Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Trustee
  • PETER DAVID BROOKMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Uk Fund Accounting & Global Reconciliation
  • RACHEL BURNS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Counsellor/Tutor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/1995, number: 1044977
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/02/1995, number: 03026457
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

34 St John's Road
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN13 3LW

Objectives

The objects for which the Association is established are, within the area of Sevenoaks (except Swanley and the Northern Parishes), Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge & Malling and across Kent in collaboration with other Mind organisations: (a) to promote the preservation of 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; and(b) to promote the study of and research into mental health disorder and emotional or mental distress and to obtain and make records of and disseminate to the public the useful results of such research and to educate the public in matters relating to mental health.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SEVENOAKS AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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