Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

LEEDS MIND 

Aims to promote the preservation and safeguarding of mental health and the relief of persons suffering from mental health problems
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£3,544£3,486£58£198£1,626£1,2694.410780
31/03/22£3,195£2,924£271£95£1,568£1,2715.29865
31/03/21£2,850£2,843£6£105£1,297£1,2425.2101102
31/03/20£2,841£2,979£-137£119£1,291£1,2224.99590
31/03/19£3,111£3,020£91£58£1,428£1,3305.392170
31/03/18£2,941£2,931£10£27£1,337£1,2975.3750
31/03/17£3,165£3,243£-78£12£-672£-731-2.7890
31/03/16£2,607£2,585£22£1£-146£-168-0.8810
31/03/15£2,142£2,030£112£91£-486£-521-3.1520
31/03/14£1,778£1,803£-25£49£-261£-658-4.4430
31/03/13£1,562£1,575£-13£40£-561£-982-7.5360
31/03/12£1,573£1,503£70£47£-565£-1,022-8.2360
31/03/11£1,807£1,875£-68£80£-67£-548-3.5510
31/03/10£2,118£2,209£-91£77£-856£-1,370-7.4490
31/03/09£2,126£2,129£-3£72£1,162£6193.5480
31/03/08£2,000£1,905£95£71£1,165£5843.7480
31/03/07£2,022£2,152£-130£104£1,071£4512.5580
31/03/06*£1,764£1,904£-139£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,982£2,043£-60£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,037£1,856£181£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 32 years
(36 years as a company)

www.leedsmind.org.uk

info@leedsmind.org.uk

01133055800

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leeds City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 107 employees
  • 80 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£110,000
Leeds Community Foundation£68,188
Masonic Trust£49,123
Co-Op Foundation£26,275
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Help Through Hardship
£49,999 13/02/2024
11
Grant to Leeds Mind
Leeds Community Foundation - Open Minds: Identity and my Mental Health
£13,250 14/03/2023
Grant to Leeds Mind
Co-Op Foundation - Living with My Loss
£9,987 28/11/2022
Weekly co-produced, topic-based, creative sessions will be delivered to allow participants to discuss their bereavement – shaping how Leeds Mind can support them and how young people can support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Space To Grow
£10,000 04/11/2022
This funding will be used to renovate the garden making it accessible for those with physical needs and allowing for new groups such as the community gardening club to be established. This project ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Leeds Mind Wellbeing Gardening Group
£2,450 22/10/2022
We would like to support better mental health for everyone in the diverse Leeds community by providing a weekly wellbeing gardening workshop.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Young People's Service - Peer Support
£110,000 29/09/2022
Leeds Mind promotes positive mental health and wellbeing and provides help and support to those who need it in Leeds and West Yorkshire. They plan to expand their mental health peer support offer in ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Peer Support
£5,000 24/01/2022
Peer Support services.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Leeds Mind - 04/11/21
£1,500 08/12/2021
Core Funding
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£49,123 26/05/2021
A grant to support socially isolated older people experiencing poor mental health in Leeds through befriending and social activities.
Leeds Community Foundation - Creative Age & Environment
£4,939 14/05/2021
Our project will deliver 2 creative courses of 10 weeks each, pairing 20 individuals (5 over 50 and 5 under 25 per course) to collaborate in discussions and workshops around climate change, the ....more
Co-Op Foundation - #iwill Bereavement - EOI
£16,288 02/12/2020
To delivered tailored resilience and_x000D_ peer support training to young people_x000D_ across Leeds who have suffered a_x000D_ sudden bereavement, such as_x000D_ murder, suicide or accident.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Leeds Mind, Inkwell Arts Centre and Cafe
£2,600 24/10/2020
We would like to provide nutrition sessions to show the relationship between affordable healthy food and good mental health.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 24/07/2020
"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 ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Leeds Mind
£24,988 30/11/2018
12
To improve outreach to men in communities that are at higher risk of suicide and least likely to engage with existing support; to engage and support these men through decreasing social isolation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Lone Mothers' Wellbeing through Image: Community Event
£2,774 15/02/2017
12
This project will enable lone mothers to plan a community engagement event where they will use photos and images as a tool to start conversations about issues that impact on their wellbeing. This ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Leeds: Outdoors, Active and Well
£499,815 09/03/2016
36
The project will offer outdoor volunteering, training and education opportunities. It will engage people who are at risk of or are experiencing poor mental health, in creating, developing and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 27-62
  • CHERYL ASTLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Information Officer
  • DAVID GEE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • LUKE BARRETT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Associate Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/01/1992, number: 1007625
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/11/1987, number: 02193270
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; AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 17 days late,
Main office

Mind
11 Clarence Road
Horsforth
LEEDS
LS18 4LB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE, WITHIN THE AREA OF WEST YORKSHIRE: 1) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BY ENABLING AND EMPOWERING EVERYONE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TO LIVE WITH, MANAGE AND RECOVER FROM THEIR CONDITION. 2) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY WORKING TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY GATHERING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION AND WORKING TO RAISE AWARENESS, PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGE STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED:IN PRACTICE WEST YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

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