Overall GiG Score: -7 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 3
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +3

YSTRADGYNLAIS MIND 

Ystradgynlais Mind is a Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Centre, providing support, training and a range of other services, to improve the lives of anyone affected by mental distress, based on the Wellbeing framework. We are an independent registered charity which is affiliated to Mind, and work in South Powys and the surrounding Western Valleys.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 25 years

minditv.org.uk

info@minditv.org.uk

01639841345

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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
31/03/22£200£230£-31n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£239£170£69n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£181£128£53n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/19£112£113£-1n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£96£82£15£0£0£0n/a08
31/03/17*£151£109£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£105£86£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£69£74£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£58£52£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£55£54£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£51£53£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£68£62£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£58£60£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£66£52£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£48£47£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?£59£58£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£58£59£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£49£53£-5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Carmarthenshire, City Of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Powys,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Ystradgynlais Mind
£4,684 28/07/2020
Grant to Ystradgynlais Mind meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
DCMS - Women Side by Side
£25,000 04/02/2019
The Wise Women Workshops will be a peer led series of workshops to raise the awareness of the mental health impacts of domestic abuse delivered in the centre an area of multiple deprivation. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteering in Mind
£9,700 11/02/2018
12
Volunteering in Mind
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ystradgynlais Mind
£75,000 28/03/2017
36
Funding staff and running costs enabling the Ystradgynlais based charity to address the increasing demands from the community for mental health support services for people who are at a transition ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/05/1999, number: 1075400
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR17: 0 days late, AR13: 23 days late, AR08: 123 days late, AR05: 46 days late, AR04: 62 days late,
Main office

The Wellbeing Centre
61-66 Penybryn
Ystradgynlais
SWANSEA
SA9 1JB

Objectives

(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND THEIR CARERS, IN PARTICULAR BUT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF A DROP-IN CENTRE FOR ADVICE, SUPPORT (INCLUDING FINANCIAL WHEN SUCH PERSONS ARE IN NEED THEREOF) AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS WITHOUT REGARD TO AGE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUALITY, HEALTH OR RELIGION.(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH

Defined Area of Benefit:

YSTRADGYNLAIS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA INCLUDING YSTALFERA, CWMLLYNFELL, ABERCRAVE, COELBREN, SEVEN SISTERS, GLYN NEATH, YSTRADFELITE AND THEIR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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