Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ROCHDALE AND DISTRICT MIND

To help people having mental health problems
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 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£1,651£1,510£141£0£850£6615.35135
31/03/23£1,566£1,584£-17£0£709£4573.54317
31/03/22£1,067£961£106£134£727£6237.83343
31/03/21£943£840£103£152£621£49372714
31/03/20?£1,029£998£31£0£518£4455.32641
31/03/18£1,082£1,108£-26£0£483£3864.2340
31/03/17£1,184£1,202£-17£0£509£3283.3410
31/03/16£1,204£1,184£20£0£527£3143.2410
31/03/15£1,234£1,226£8£17£506£2732.7350
31/03/14£1,242£1,247£-5£14£498£2542.4380
31/03/13£1,282£1,249£33£18£503£2662.6360
31/03/12£1,229£1,467£-238£22£407£3332.7350
31/03/11£1,259£1,381£-122£31£707£6745.9430
31/03/10*£1,446£1,318£128£25£829£550.5390
31/03/09£1,342£1,026£316£16£701£550.6370
31/03/08£985£845£140£12£386£590.8290
31/03/07*£726£725£1£9£246£220.4280
31/03/06£794£606£188n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£533£508£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£374£399£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 37 years

www.rochdalemind.org.uk

management@rochdalemind.org.uk

01706752333

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bury, Rochdale,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
BBC Children in Need£19,774
DCMS£16,435
National Lottery Community Fund£9,980
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 30/10/2020
Rochdale and District Mind
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Rochdale and District Mind
£19,774 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver counselling to children and young people experiencing mental ill-health which has been exacerbated due to Covid-19. The service will result in increased emotional health.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,844 04/09/2020
"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
£6,591 30/06/2020
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
Forever Manchester - Daily Wellbeing Sessions
£4,053 29/05/2020
Online and telephone mental health support
National Lottery Community Fund - Shifa Dementia Carers Project
£9,980 22/04/2020
12
The funding will be used to empower and support up to 30 carers of people with dementia especially from BAME groups sessions will address the practical and emotional needs of a carer and support them to access appropriate activities and services to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Community Cooking for Wellbeing'
£10,000 13/12/2018
12
The organisation will deliver community cooking sessions in their community café targeting local people who have lived experience of mental health, with the aim of developing skills and improving health and wellbeing. Funding for the organisation ....more
Sport England - Get Active for Life
£98,669 02/07/2018
25
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage funding programme for a Revenue project titled Get Active for Life. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wellbeing Project
£341,364 07/09/2016
36
Funding will be used to develop the project that helps adults improve their mental wellbeing via a range of activities. After an initial assessment, beneficiaries will have access to weekly support groups, a programme of life skills and educational ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Open Mind
£300,503 17/12/2013
36
This project aims to increase the social and economic inclusion of people with mental health problems through accessing the right support and training to meet their needs. Mental health sufferers face multiple and complex barriers to wellbeing, ....more
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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: 32-58
  • AMRAZE KHAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Manager
  • KATE DAVIES POOLE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Counsellor
  • LEE DAVID HOUSTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Product Strategy
  • MOHAMMED SHAHEDUL ALAM Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Accountant
  • PAUL SINCLAIR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • SAMANTHA DAVYS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Early Careers Manager
  • TIMOTHY JOSEPH ENGLISH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/1988, number: 519916
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/01/1988, number: 02210699
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 13 days late, AR07: 27 days late,
Main office

THE MIND WELLBEING CENTRE
3-11 DRAKE STREET
ROCHDALE
LANCASHIRE
OL16 1RE

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE, WITHIN THE AREA OF ROCHDALE AND DISTRICT 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, OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE ISSUES 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:

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ROCHDALE OR ADJACENT AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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