Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

MANY MINDS 

Many Minds works with individuals to engage with their creativity, improve confidence, self-esteem and build social skills and networks. We run weekly workshops in theatre making skills to devise and create high quality contemporary performance. Many Minds also delivers mentoring, training and consultancy using performance as a tool to improve wellbeing, increase understanding and reduce stigma.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 6 years

www.many-minds.org

info@many-minds.org

07843210272

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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
31/12/22£191£173£19n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/21£117£118£-2n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/12/20£116£74£42n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/12/19£94£70£24n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/12/18£82£48£34£0£0£0n/a025
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£128,000
People's Health Trust£33,097
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
Quartet Community Foundation£25,230
The Baring Foundation£12,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£8,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for mental health informed performances
£8,000 18/01/2023
Many Minds is a member-led mental health and performance charity. They run workshops and make high quality contemporary performance with people with lived experiences of mental ill-health. This grant ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Many Minds
£5,000 20/10/2022
To run a series of drama workshops for people experiencing mental illness, social isolation and poverty, to provide a space where people can come together and be creative.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Many Minds
£2,500 24/05/2022
For workshops and rehearsals leading up to a large scale musical that represents the diversity of Bristol and gives people a voice who don't have equal opportunities to access the arts.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental health musical
£10,000 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to deliver performance-making workshops for people living with a variety of mental health related conditions. The project aims to bring more people together across diverse ....more
People's Health Trust - Progression Through Performance
£33,097 01/06/2021
22
A 22-month project for adults with experience of mental health issues in Bristol who may face barriers to engagement in social and creative activities. The project offers regular performance making ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for mental health informed performances
£120,000 17/05/2021
Many Minds is a member-led mental health and performance charity. They run workshops and make high quality contemporary performance with people with lived experiences of mental ill-health. This grant ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Creative Vision for Mental Health
£10,000 19/01/2021
11
To create time for reflection and visioning to support the growth of Many Minds, supporting members into leadership roles and creating more diversity across this organisation which supports ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Many Minds
£12,000 14/09/2020
To develop the core functions and evaluation of the organisation in to respond to the growing demand of the charity's activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative connections in virtual space
£10,000 15/05/2020
3
This project will support people with mental health and experiences of mental illness through Covid-19. It will tun two weekly workshops over a period of four months and work towards making a ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Many Minds
£2,730 12/05/2020
Creating social connections through online performance and creative workshops with people who have experiences of mental illness.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Many Minds
£8,000 13/12/2019
purchase of computers and PA system for a charity which works with people with mental health issues
National Lottery Community Fund - Progression through Performance
£10,000 26/09/2019
12
Progression through Performance
Quartet Community Foundation - Progression in performance
£5,000 18/09/2019
5
Toward a set of workshops delivered weekly to train people with previous experience of mental health issues in drama facilitation.
Quartet Community Foundation - WE ARE HERE -a multi-cultural participatory public performance sharing unheard stories about unnoticed places across the city of Bristol.
£3,000 23/07/2018
10
Towards working with people with mental health experiences on a participatory arts project that brings together stories of places that are significant to them.
National Lottery Community Fund - WE ARE HERE ? a multi-cultural participatory public performance sharin
£10,000 13/07/2018
1
The funding will be used to deliver creative workshops to support people from the migrant community with mental ill health. The project aims to improve levels of wellbeing and enable people to ....more
People's Health Trust - Change the Seen
£34,853 10/05/2018
This two-year project was based on a pilot, it delivered young person’s led theatre productions based on personal experiences of homelessness and mental illness. Young people with these experiences ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2017, number: 1175721
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

10 CHELSEA PARK
BRISTOL
BS5 6AG

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND THOSE AT RISK OFMENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH PARTICIPATION INTHE ARTS IN ORDER TO INCREASE AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING AND REDUCESTIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH TO THE WIDER PUBLIC THROUGH CREATIVE ACTIVITIES,PERFORMANCE AND PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, TO IMPROVE ACCESSTO ARTS AND OTHER MAINSTREAM SERVICES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERSBY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIPS TO RAISE AWARENESS AND REDUCE BARRIERS TOACCESS AND TO IMPROVE CONFIDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM, SOCIAL NETWORKS ANDPROGRESSION IN TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR MENTALHEALTH SERVICE USERS AND THOSE AT RISK THROUGH INVOLVEMENT IN CREATIVEACTIVITIES AND MENTORING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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