Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BRECON AND DISTRICT MIND 

To meet the needs and ambitions of people who live in Brecon and district and who experience mental distress by providing a wide range of services and activities, empowering choices that will improve mental health and emotional well-being,supporting personal journeys of recovery, increasing understanding and challenging stigma and discrimination
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 12 years

www.breconmind.org.uk

info@breconmind.org.uk

01874611529

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UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£478£641£-163n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£581£530£51£1£402£1383.12713
31/03/21£540£399£140£0£351£1725.2242
31/03/20£350£357£-7n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£391£348£43n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£305£289£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£220£203£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£196£154£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£147£125£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£162£165£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£223£143£80£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Powys,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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£267,358
Garfield Weston Foundation£22,500
DCMS£19,882
Lloyds Bank Foundation£8,351
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Mums Matter
£98,927 09/08/2023
Brecon and District Mind in Powys will use £98927 to work with women who are experiencing post-natal depression. Through a series of courses support sessions for partners and ongoing one-to-one ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Engagement project
£9,930 21/06/2023
Brecon and District Mind in Powys applied for £9930 to coproduce a 12-month wellbeing events/activities programme. They will work with their members and the wider community to support more people ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Brecon and District Mind
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brecon & District Mind
£1,891 22/10/2022
We would like to provide counselling services for people whose mental health has been affected by the Covid pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 16/09/2022
Core Funding Application
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 19/02/2021
Green Minds
National Lottery Community Fund - Brecon Green Minds
£10,000 14/12/2020
11
Brecon and District Mind in Powys will use £10000 to continue running their Green Minds initiative a community eco-therapy project for individuals with existing mental health issues or those at risk ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£19,882 02/10/2020
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 ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Brecon and District Mind
£6,101 28/07/2020
Grant to Brecon and District Mind meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Response Therapy
£48,503 04/06/2020
12
Brecon and District Mind has received £48503 to enable them to offer talking and complimentary therapy due to a high demand for counselling to people with mental health issues in South Powys. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mums Matter
£99,998 18/12/2019
24
Brecon and District Mind will work with women who are experiencing post-natal depression. Through a series of courses, support sessions for partners and ongoing one-to-one support the project will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brecon and District Mind
£100,000 26/03/2019
36
Towards funding the revenue costs of the mid-Wales based specialist mental health charity.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 11/10/2018
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Ty Penyfan Volunteering and Activities
£9,475 12/07/2018
12
Project Summary :_x000D_ Brecon and District MIND will offer training and workshop activities for people experiencing mental health issues, which will help with their recovery._x000D_ What Money is ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mind: Brecon & District
£30,000 07/10/2016
36
over three years as continuation funding towards rent at a mental health centre in Brecon
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brecon and District Mind
£15,000 07/10/2015
24
the salary of a Business Development Manager
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-74
  • CRAD LOWE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Joiner
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/12/2011, number: 1145211
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/10/2011, number: 07814000
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from BRECKNOCK GARDENING ASSOCIATION on 19/12/2023
Main office

Ty Croeso St David's House
48 Free Street
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7BP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS RESIDING IN BRECON AND IN POWYS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING AND TO SUPPORT RECOVERY AND INDEPENDENCE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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