Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

ISLINGTON MIND

providing day services, employment training, counselling and advocacy to people with mental health problems; campaigning on mental health issues
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

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
31/03/23£1,487£1,521£-33£35£714£6074.823100
31/03/22£1,539£1,465£73£35£747£6285.136141
31/03/21*£1,660£1,407£252£35£674£5214.42350
31/03/20£1,471£1,380£91£31£422£2682.32950
31/03/19£1,127£1,010£117£18£331£2162.625400
31/03/18£908£855£52£17£213£1702.4290
31/03/17£909£843£66£15£161£1291.8240
31/03/16£892£898£-6£16£95£901.2150
31/03/15£838£862£-25£28£101£931.3170
31/03/14£768£762£5£30£125£1161.8170
31/03/13£738£768£-30£36£119£1191.9180
31/03/12*£938£1,038£-100£41£148£1481.7260
31/03/11*£1,444£1,371£73£35£248£2332310
31/03/10£1,268£1,207£61£26£174£1071.1260
31/03/09£907£1,024£-117£19£111£510.6220
31/03/08£839£848£-10£16£228£1722.4180
31/03/07£796£778£18£23£238£1862.9180
31/03/06£771£721£50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£594£565£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£558£552£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 16%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 4.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 38 years

www.islingtonmind.org.uk

admin@islingtonmind.org.uk

02033019850

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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£492,504
Cloudesley£191,500
Cripplegate Foundation£156,062
DCMS£108,010
City Bridge Trust£17,452
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£8,000 09/04/2024
Expanding our carers? specialist talking therapies clinic.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£8,000 09/04/2024
Enhancing our carers? project, providing wellbeing activities, therapies and outings.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£6,000 20/11/2023
Catalyst Project
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£24,200 16/11/2023
Mother2Mother
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£4,000 24/10/2023
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant - cost of living 2023
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£15,000 19/09/2023
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2024
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£5,000 10/08/2023
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant - cost of living 2023
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£29,862 14/06/2023
Enablement Housing
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£5,000 06/02/2023
Islington Giving Crisis Appeal grants
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£7,500 07/12/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H5117
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£3,000 10/10/2022
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant - cost of living
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£5,000 27/09/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H5117
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£15,000 27/09/2022
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2023
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£90,000 09/03/2022
Principal Grant Rd 3 - Islington Mind Talking Therapies Clinic
National Lottery Community Fund - LDTogether
£10,000 25/02/2022
The funding will be used to continue the learning disability mental health support service for people in Islington. The project aims to provide additional support for the adult learning disabled community following the pandemic to help rebuild ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£44,000 19/10/2021
Mother2Mother
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£6,000 06/10/2021
Catalyst
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£15,000 21/09/2021
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2022 - Awarded Sep 2021
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£5,000 17/08/2021
Cloudesley Partner top-up for the period 17/08/21 - 31/12/21
London Catalyst - Islington Mind - 4
£2,000 11/05/2021
Get2gether: CovidSpace@Mind responds to the needs of vulnerable service users during the pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - CovidRecovery Enablement Project
£482,504 15/03/2021
The project is using funding to sustain and expand the CovidRecovery Enablement programme which provides practical and emotional support to people in Islington most impacted by the pandemic to manage and recover while developing strength across ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£10,000 23/02/2021
CovidRecovery Enablement
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£5,000 17/11/2020
Covid19 Crisis grant
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£2,500 01/10/2020
"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
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£5,000 22/09/2020
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Top-up for 22nd September to 31st Dec 2020
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£12,000 22/09/2020
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2021 - Awarded Sep 2020
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£78,490 23/07/2020
"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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£27,020 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Islington Mind
£17,452 19/05/2020
A grant of £17,452 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£15,000 04/05/2020
Covid-19 Crisis Project
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£5,000 06/04/2020
Essential goods to individuals
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£6,000 26/11/2019
Catalyst
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£44,000 25/11/2019
Mother2Mother- supporting women caregivers of people with mental health problems
Greater London Authority - RainbowSports@Mind
£105,726 30/09/2019
Twice weekly service with user selected activities offering users a chance to get together and collectively work towards goals of improved mental health.
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£12,000 24/09/2019
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Awarded Sep 2019
Comic Relief - RainbowSports@Mind
£105,726 04/09/2019
24
Rainbow Sports@Mind will gather London’s diverse LGBTQ+ community within a safe supportive mental health focused environment. The service will run twice weekly with user selected activities including dance, yoga, walking, boxing and football, ....more
Greater London Authority - Islington Mind's SportsWeek
£5,000 01/08/2019
Active Londoners
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Islington Mind
£181,200 25/07/2019
60
£181,200 over 5 years (£27,450; £27,700; £41,750; £42,000; £42,300) for the p/t project coordinator, sessional companion support, psychotherapist and other associated project costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mother to Mother
£10,000 02/11/2018
12
The project will provide a programme of services that are designed to support mothers who have mental ill health. The aim is to improve levels of wellbeing.
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£12,000 19/09/2018
Interim Welfare Grant (awarded Sep 2018)
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£10,000 19/09/2018
Chance4Young
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Mind
£44,000 25/01/2018
Mother to Mother
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Mental Health Recovery and Crisis Enablement Service (CRCE)
£356,561 10/01/2018
35
This project will expand its service, which support residents with mental health problems and other complex challenges. The project will support them with issues such as money management, physical self-care, housing and tenancy, relationships, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Islington Mind
£75,000 30/11/2017
36
Islington Mind is seeking funding to provide more structured support to LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and refugees experiencing mental health issues to assist them in their integration into the UK including navigating the immigration process and becoming ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£10,000 20/09/2017
Psychosis Therapy Project (PTP)
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£7,272 19/09/2017
Cloudesley Partner Grant (awarded Sep 2017)
National Lottery Community Fund - A specialist support service for LGBT asylum seekers and refugees
£10,000 02/11/2016
12
This project will provide a peer support and advice service for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) refugees and asylum seekers. This will enable people to receive support regarding the issues impacting on their quality of life.
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£10,000 21/09/2016
Psychosis Therapy Project
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£7,689 21/09/2016
Cloudesley Partner Grant (awarded Sep 2016)
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Mind
£8,454 15/09/2015
Cloudesley Partner Grant (Awarded Sep 15)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-76
  • ANNA MCGILLIVRAY
  • BRENDA KABASEKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: None
  • FELICITY HAYWOOD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • GWENDOLYN SYLVIA WILLIAMS (Chair) Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Psychotherapist
  • P J SAMUELS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Poet
  • ROBERT JESSETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Finance Director
  • ROMAN PODOLCZUK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Computer Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/07/1986, number: 294535
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/1986, number: 02002508
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 2 days late, AR12: 21 days late, AR11: 23 days late,
Main office

ISLINGTON MIND
UNIT 4 ARCHWAY BUSINESS CENTRE
19-23 WEDMORE STREET
ISLINGTON
LONDON
N19 4RU

Objectives

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.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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