Finance Score: 4

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 8

Good reserves management: +3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 21

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
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£767	£892	£-126	£6	£293	£293	3.9	35	70
31/03/22	£721	£866	£-145	£0	£421	£421	5.8	37	70
31/03/21	£882	£775	£107	£0	£561	£561	8.7	35	70
31/03/20	£850	£827	£23	£18	£445	£437	6.3	36	110
31/03/19	£862	£837	£25	£18	£423	£411	5.9	34	101
31/03/18	£879	£798	£81	£24	£394	£382	5.7	31	0
31/03/17	£670	£651	£19	£23	£313	£306	5.6	26	0
31/03/16	£738	£701	£37	£20	£288	£280	4.8	26	0
31/03/15	£652	£651	£1	£23	£253	£251	4.6	27	0
31/03/14	£518	£492	£26	£24	£248	£237	5.8	18	0
31/03/13	£503	£466	£37	£24	£221	£198	5.1	10	0
31/03/12	£466	£441	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£421	£421	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£418	£403	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£431	£448	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£387	£425	£-38	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£430	£417	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£420	£442	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£416	£396	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£385	£391	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 49%
Liabilities/Income: 36%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2

Asset Split ?

Established: 29 years

www.westkentmind.org.uk

hello@westkentmind.org.uk

01732744950

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

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 works here?

35 employees
70 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£404,229
Garfield Weston Foundation	£70,000
DCMS	£33,888
The Grocers' Charity	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
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 ....more 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. The project will provide creative workshops and activities for people living with or at risk of mental health problems through offering practical resources to nurture and sustain their mental health.
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 ....more 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	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 ....more 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 provision using music and singing for wellbeing encouraging performances in/to the local community.
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 ....more "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
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 ....more 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 support network at a time that many will find difficult.
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 ....more 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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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-72

ASHLEY GEORGE TOWNSEND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Uk Group Operational Resilience Analyst

DR JULIE HAMMOND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Salaried Gp And Gp Locum

ELLA DAVEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Grants Manager - Charity

GRAHAM CLARK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: N/A

LAURA ACOSTA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Educator

PETER DAVID BROOKMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Uk Fund Accounting & Global Reconciliation

RACHEL BURNS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Counsellor/Tutor

CHRISTOPHER KAJ GUNNAR ERIKSSON-LEE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Solicitor

CHLOE WEBB (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Crm And Marketing Operations Manager

MARIE MARTINA STANLEY Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Trustee

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

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
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

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