Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 6

Good reserves management: +3
Volatile income: -3

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

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 15

BRISTOL MIND

The company provides a range of high quality services which are reflective and relevant to the needs of the mental health service user community, combats stigma and promotes a positive image of mental health and works in partnership with service users and other agencies to secure the widest range of services are available that best matches the needs of the service user community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
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
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:

Income has been volatile recently

Established: 23 years

www.bristolmind.org.uk

finance@bristolmind.org.uk

01179800370

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£536	£514	£23	£0	£359	£349	8.2	15	78
31/03/22		£855	£903	£-48	£0	£336	£326	4.3	26	77
31/03/21		£869	£952	£-83	£0	£384	£359	4.5	25	72
31/03/20		£886	£762	£123	£0	£466	£449	7.1	25	67
31/03/19		£733	£632	£101	£2	£343	£343	6.5	14	70
31/03/18		£641	£602	£39	£1	£242	£224	4.5	12	0
31/03/17		£567	£546	£21	£1	£203	£177	3.9	12	0
31/03/16		£575	£520	£54	£2	£182	£172	4	10	0
31/03/15		£505	£481	£24	£55	£127	£99	2.5	10	0
31/03/14		£492	£499	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£494	£518	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£555	£512	£44	£57	£133	£67	1.6	13	0
31/03/11		£485	£501	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£516	£507	£9	£15	£105	£49	1.2	11	0
31/03/09	*	£442	£423	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£486	£493	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£450	£482	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£463	£438	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£365	£360	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£327	£304	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 8.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 5.7

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Disability
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

15 employees
78 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

Barrow Cadbury Trust	£40,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£18,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,999
Co-Operative Group	£5,848

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Mind
£5,000	29/02/2024 3	To sustain our parent and child out-of-school club, run at the Hampton Hotel where families are accommodated whilst awaiting an asylum decision.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Mind
£500	08/12/2022	Towards vouchers for Asylum-Seeker Children staying in Bristol Hotels over Christmas
National Lottery Community Fund - Mind Without Borders
£9,999	25/06/2021	The organisation will use the funding to provide a network of peer support counselling and network engagement activities to support the mental health and well-being of refugees.
Quartet Community Foundation - Meeting Minds Without Borders: Extension of support
£5,000	23/03/2021 10	For a qualified therapist to provide BAME refugee and asylum seeker clients one-to-one counselling.
Quartet Community Foundation - Counselling through COVID - Extending Support
£3,000	26/01/2021 12	To extend our counselling of shielding older people who are experiencing loneliness. This group are isolating due to pre-existing physical health illnesses and are experiencing poor mental health as ....more To extend our counselling of shielding older people who are experiencing loneliness. This group are isolating due to pre-existing physical health illnesses and are experiencing poor mental health as a result.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Bristol Mind
£40,000	07/10/2020 6	The funding will pay for a qualified therapist from the BAME community to provide refugee and migrant clients one to one counselling.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Mind
£5,000	21/05/2020	To extend the 'Mindline' helpline from 5 to 7 nights a week, which provides telephone support to people with mental health difficulties.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol Mind
£5,848	15/11/2019	To raise awareness of mental health issues and promote wellbeing among 16-19 year olds in local schools and colleges through workshops.
Ministry of Justice - 2014-2018 Female Rape Support Fund (CSA Uplift)
£24,000	01/04/2017	To increase the volume of support offered to victims of child sexual abuse and help meet the increased demand on your services.
Ministry of Justice - 2014-2018 Female Rape Support Fund
£63,624	01/04/2017	To provide direct and front line support to females over the age of 13 who are victims of rape and sexual violence.
Ministry of Justice - 2014-2017 Female Rape Support Fund
£60,000	01/04/2016 12	To provide direct and front line support to females over the age of 13 who are victims of rape and sexual violence
Ministry of Justice - 2014-2017 Female Rape Support Fund (CSA Uplift)
£24,000	01/04/2016 12	To increase the volume of support offered to victims of child sexual abuse and help meet the increased demand on your services.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 21-67

ALEXANDER ALCOCK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Engineering / Technical Manager

DR HAYLEY RICHARDS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Medical Doctor, Retired, Other trusteeship: ABBEYFIELD BRISTOL AND KEYNSHAM SOCIETY,

JOANNA SUNDERLAND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant

JOANNE DIAMOND Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Environmental Manager

SALLY JANE MASON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Hr Consultant

TOM WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Consultant

TONY WHITLOCK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Corporate Finance Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/2001, number: 1085171
Registered at Companies House on 13/12/2000, number: 04124744

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR09: 17 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

St Brandon's House
29 Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5QT

Objectives

(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 CITY OF BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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