The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the Charity's Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Companies Act 2006 and "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (effective 1 January 2019).
Oxfordshire Mind is a registered Charity (no. 261476) and a company limited by guarantee (no. 4343625) with its own constitution - the 'Memorandum and Articles of Association'. We have a membership agreement with national Mind (registered charity no. 219830) enabling us, amongst other things, to use the Mind name and logo.
Oxfordshire Mind is part of the Mind network working together across England & Wales to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support.
Our Vision:
We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect
Our Mission:
We promote good mental health through the provision of high-quality services and campaigning for positive change
Our values:
Open - We reach out to anyone who needs us
Together - We’re stronger in partnership
Responsive - We listen, we act
Independent - We speak out fearlessly
Unstoppable - We never give up
Oxfordshire Mind Services
During the year Oxfordshire Mind provided a wide range of services across Oxfordshire & Berkshire West including:
Information Service
For any mental health query, large or small, we provide information and signposting to services. We publish a ‘Mind Guide’ to mental health services, information and advice across Oxfordshire.
Options Sessions
An opportunity to talk with a Wellbeing Service Worker about mental health and wellbeing and help service users to find the right support.
Education and coping skills courses
Supporting people with their self esteem, assertiveness, stress, strong emotions and wellbeing.
Peer Support
Share activities, issues and thoughts and to meet people who share similar challenges and goals.
Benefits Advice
For anyone with a mental health problem in need of support around welfare benefits.
Oxfordshire Safe Haven (Banbury and Oxford)
A safe and welcoming space for people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Housing
Transitional Housing Recovery Services for people with serious mental illness. Provided as part of a pathway of housing services for the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership.
Volunteering and Involvement Opportunities
Support and training for volunteers to extend the range of services we can provide and help people develop new skills and experience. Involvement of people with lived experience and service users in shaping Oxfordshire Mind.
Primary Care & AMHT Wellbeing Workers
Wellbeing support from Oxfordshire Mind workers embedded in GP practices in Oxfordshire & Wokingham, and Adult Mental Health Teams across Oxfordshire.
A&E Work
Support for people at risk of suicide in partnership with Royal Berkshire Hospital Accident & Emergency Department.
Physical Activity & Wellbeing
Walking for Wellbeing groups and holistic support from Physical Health and Wellbeing Workers for people using the Early Intervention Service, people with serious mental ill health in Wokingham, Reading and Oxfordshire and people living in Mind & Response Supported housing.
Children,Young People & Families
Wellbeing Worker support within the specialist perinatal mental health team. Working with parents & carers of children and young people in the Family Solutions Plus partnership. Work with schools to promote and equip children and young people with knowledge and skills around physical health and mental wellbeing and delivery of Supported Self Help for children & young people. Also delivering our Youth in Mind partnership conferences in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and a youth mental health forum across Berkshire West.
Community engagement projects
Supporting and informing the development of local mental health policy through amplifying community voices. In 2024-25 this included Women United; a community project supporting connection and belonging in safe space providing "confidence, support, friendship & skill-sharing" as the members describe it. Working in partnership with Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), we helped pilot the Well Together Fund. This pioneering model puts funding directly into the hands of grassroots community groups to shape how best to support their community's mental health.
Fundraising standards information
Members of the Charity’s fundraising department organise events and carry out fundraising activities in order to generate funds for the charity. The Charity does not use professional fundraisers or involve commercial participators. There have been no complaints about fundraising activity this year.
The charity has signed up to the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice.
All the charity’s marketing activities are undertaken directly to ensure that it is not unreasonably persistent or intrusive. Marketing materials contain clear details of how to unsubscribe to future communications and care is taken to limit the level of communications being sent out.
Public Benefit Statement
The Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties.
In developing our services, we look to
Improve access: Reach all those in need of support, advice and information
Deepen our impact: Provide services that lead to sustained positive improvements in mental wellbeing
Focus on recovery: Enable people to take control and realise their potential
Our objectives are set out in our organisational Strategy 2022-25 available on our website.
Achievements against our Objectives for 2024-25
Within the Wellbeing Service
We have continued to engage with work to review contracts for adult mental health services in Oxfordshire: influencing to ensure that services meet needs and that the voice of people with lived experience is represented.
We have achieved a 140% increase in referrals to our Embedded Workers team, thanks to better systems and collaboration with NHS services.
We launched a new coordination service within Integrated Neighbourhood Teams in partnership with the NHS.
We have continued to expand our work with Children and Young People via the delivery of Supported Self Help across Oxon and Berkshire West and within Primary Care Networks.
Within the Transitional Housing Recovery Services
We continued to engage with work reviewing the contracts for adult mental health services in Oxfordshire with the aim of ensuring that the voice of people with lived experience is represented and future services meet needs
We continued to support residents to take part in activities that were meaningful for them increasing this to 72% (from 60% in 2023-24).
We exceeded outcome targets including meaningful improvements in mental health, and levels of satisfaction from family, friends and carers.
Within the Innovation Team
In partnership with Bucks Mind, adopted a Berkshire-wide communications strategy and resource sharing agreement to support the Mind in Berkshire programme.
Our Mind in Berkshire youth-focused webinars upskilled people from 23 voluntary sector organisations, 8 local authorities, 3 health authorities and 13 schools.
As co-chair of the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership Involvement Group we led the group in recruiting the first strategic experts by experience to the partnership governance.
Communications and Campaigning
63,779 people were reached through our new Mind in Berkshire communications strategy for social media.
On World Mental Health Day we shared our expertise at the Thames Valley CIPD event; supporting HR leaders from our region to improve mental health in our workplaces.
We were honoured to announce Adam Kay as our inaugural Patron in 2024 and thank him for supporting our work alongside our Presidents Nick Welch and Nick Georgiou.
Development and Fundraising
We were successful in generating a 29% increase in income from the previous year, and improving the return on investment by 255% on the previous year.
This year saw the launch of Oxfordshire Mind Champions, our first-ever dedicated supporter scheme, bringing together our most committed fundraisers, donors & advocates to help shape our work.
We created our first individual giving strategy; and met our year 1 targets. We have strengthened our community partnership with our corporate supporters – whose support and engagement has included time, advocacy, strengthening local connections, mental health at work, and vital fundraising.
We delivered impactful fundraising events including more than 100 runners raising funds at the Oxford Half Marathon, our inaugural ‘Mental Elf’ event and we sold over 1,000 tickets to our annual Comedy Gala in January 2025.
Contribution of Volunteers
Over 90 volunteers continued to offer valuable support and contribution to our work in 2024-25. This amounted to a total of 4,520 hours of volunteering, 1,500 more than the previous year. Our volunteers were involved in a range of Mind activities and events which included helping with our information line and BBMH work, contributing to events and fundraising activity, facilitating peer support groups, and administrative office support. Volunteers helped us raise our profile at events including the Oxford Round Table Fireworks, Mental Health Awareness Week, Reading Festival and recruitment events at Oxford Brookes and the Westgate Oxford. Our volunteer-led Walking for Wellbeing project relaunched with volunteers running 65 walks in Banbury & Oxford throughout the year.
All Mind volunteers are fully trained and supervised to support them in their work with us. We welcome volunteers from all backgrounds and local communities to join us.
Income for the year was £6,951,640. Expenditure was £6,924,733. The largest single expenditure was staff costs £5,384,349 which accounts for over two thirds of expenditure.
The principal funding sources during the year have been:
Funding from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Funding from Primary Care
Rent (primarily rent related to Mind Housing Projects)
Funding from Oxfordshire County Council
Funding from Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Funding from Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board
Grants from Charitable Trusts
Donations and money raised through fundraising events, partnerships and training services.
Reserves Policy
Forming part of reserves, the unrestricted general fund is the working fund of the charity. Unlike the other funds, it is not restricted or designated for use for a particular or defined purpose.
The unrestricted general fund provides for the net deficit of any activities that have inadequate income of their own and for the general administration of the charity. It also provides working capital for operations and helps to provide resources to ensure that the charity is able to continue with its obligations in the event of a shortfall in income or unexpected upturn in expenditure.
The Reserves policy bases the reserves requirement on the estimated winding up costs of the organisation. The reserves requirement requires that the Category A creditors (employee obligations, tax obligations and professional fees associated with winding up plus a small contingency are covered by free reserves.
Gross unrestricted income and expenditure excludes both restricted income and expenditure and income and expenditure relating to major contracts to provide NHS services to the extent that they are self-financing.
Trustees consider that this level should ensure uninterrupted services and delivery of the charity’s objectives regardless of short to medium term fluctuations in patterns of income and expenditure or unforeseen financial burdens.
The reserves target amounted to between £1,235k and £1,239k on at 31 March 2025 on the revised basis noted above, and the charity’s unrestricted general funds of £1,242k met this target.
Our future plans are informed firstly by our Strategic Plan, which looks at the challenges and opportunities facing the organisation and maps out our priorities for the future, and secondly by our Objectives and Key Results, which describes our priorities in more detail for each financial year.
Decisions made by the board and senior management team will be aligned to the four priorities of the current 2022-2025 strategic plan:
Sustainability – ensuring our operating model is fit for purpose
Reach and accessibility – ensuring we meet the needs of our service users including via digital service delivery and also expansion into Berkshire West
Children and Young People – the most rapidly growing area of mental health need in British society
Our people – without whom nothing gets done
For the next year, our objectives are as follows:
Maintain the financial stability and sustainability of the organisation.
To review our strategy and create a new organisational strategy for 2026 onwards.
We will work with people in Oxfordshire & Berkshire West to explore, identify and address unmet needs and tackle inequalities.
To work at a strategic level with out system partners to develop relationships, understand and mitigate the threats and challenges to the mental health of people in our community.
We will be a great place to work, with engaged employees and volunteers who are aware of how we each contribute to the organisational purpose and goals.
The Trustees of Oxfordshire Mind are responsible for overseeing the management and administration of the charity and have ultimate responsibility for the charity’s activities. The Trustees are also the Directors of the company. Trustees are elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting or join as co-opted members at the invitation of the Board of Trustees. Induction and training is available for all Trustees.
The Trustees, who are also the directors for the purpose of company law, and who served during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were:
The role of the Board of Trustees is:
To ensure that Oxfordshire Mind acts in accordance with its Articles of Association, charity law, company law, and other relevant legislation or regulations
To ensure that Oxfordshire Mind applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects (“promote the preservation of mental well-being and to assist in relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental disorder or conditions of emotional or mental distress requiring advice or treatment, in association with Mind in accordance with the aims and objectives of Mind”)
To provide clear strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, setting targets and evaluating performance
To safeguard the good name and values of the charity
To protect and manage the property of the charity and to ensure the proper investment of Oxfordshire Mind’s funds
To oversee the financial affairs of the Charity
During the year 2024/25 the full Board of Trustees met regularly, and all meetings were quorate.
Separate Trustee Sub Committees covering Finance, HR, Governance & Assurance and Service, Quality and Performance also met on a regular basis during the year and reported to the full Board.
The Trustees reviewed and updated the Articles of Association during the year 2023/24. Having received consent from the Charity Commission in June 2024, the revised Articles of Association were formally adopted by Written Special Resolution in July 2024.
Environmental Good Practice
Oxfordshire Mind has a policy on environmental good practice. The charity aims to minimise our impact through practical measures such as: interest free public transport season ticket loans, a cycle-to-work scheme, energy efficiency, reducing paper usage, recycling, and other measures. The policy covers our work with service users, our staff, contractors and where appropriate partners and other stakeholders.
Risk Management
The Trustees have considered risks and risk management throughout the year as part of the business of the regular Trustees’ meetings. A formal strategic risk assessment and risk management register is reviewed and kept updated.
The principal risks and uncertainties for the charity as at 31st March 2025 include external risks related to the changing environment of fundraising, NHS and local government commissioning, financial impacts from higher inflation and costs. As a consequence the principle internal risks identified are sustaining culture and values across the organisation as we work over a wider geography, loss of major funding or contracts, serious health and safety incidents related to our work. We have a detailed risk management plan in place to mitigate for these which is regularly reviewed by senior management and trustees. Trustees introduced more rigorous review and monitoring of finances by the Finance sub-committee, who report back to the board.
Key Management Personnel Remuneration
The Trustees consider the Board of Trustees and the Senior Management Team as comprising the key management personnel of the charity in charge of directing and controlling the charity and running and operating the charity on a day to day basis. All Trustees give of their time freely and no Trustee remuneration was paid in the year. Details of Trustee expenses and related party transactions are disclosed in note 10 to the accounts.
Trustees are required to disclose all relevant interests and in accordance with the Trust’s policy withdraw from decisions where a conflict of interest arises.
The pay of the Senior Management Team is reviewed annually in line with the organisation’s Pay and Reward Policy. The remuneration is reviewed to ensure that it is fair and not out of line with similar roles.
In accordance with the company's articles, a resolution proposing that Gravita Audit Oxford LLP be reappointed as auditor of the company will be put at a General Meeting.
The Trustees' report, including the strategic report, was approved by the Board of Trustees.
The Trustees, who are also the directors of Oxfordshire Mind for the purpose of company law, are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that year.
In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in operation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Oxfordshire Mind (the ‘Charity’) for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion, the financial statements:
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
Other information
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:
the information given in the Trustees' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared, which includes the directors' report and the strategic report prepared for the purposes of company law, is consistent with the financial statements; and
the strategic report and the directors' report included within the Trustees' report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors' report included within the Trustees' report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
certain disclosures of trustees' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
As explained more fully in the statement of Trustees' responsibilities, the Trustees, who are also the directors of the Charity for the purpose of company law, are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.
the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities, and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our knowledge and experience;
we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the Company.
We assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence where applicable; and
identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the charitable company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected, and alleged fraud; and
considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates were indicative of potential bias; and
investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims;
reviewing relevant correspondence.
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the Trustees and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
Oxfordshire Mind is a charitable company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 2 Kings Meadow, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0DP.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charity's Constitution, the Companies Act 2006, FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the Charities SORP "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (effective 1 January 2019). The Charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the Charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include certain items at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the company and which have not been designated for other purposes. The Trustees may choose to designate funds for particular purposes.
Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors which have been raised by the company for particular purposes. The costs of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund is set out in the note to the accounts.
All incoming resources are included in the SoFA when Charity is legally entitled to the income after any performance conditions have been met, the amount can be measured reliably and it is probable that the income will be received.
For donations to be recognised the Charity will have been notified of the amounts and the settlement date in writing. If there are conditions attached to the donation and this requires a level of performance before entitlement can be obtained, then income is deferred until those conditions are fully met or the fulfilment of those conditions is within the control of the Charity and it is probable that they will be fulfilled.
For legacies, entitlement is the earlier of the Charity being notified of an impending distribution or the legacy being received. At this point income is recognised. On occasion legacies will be notified to the Charity where it is not possible to measure the amount expected to be distributed. On these occasions, the legacy is treated as a contingent asset and disclosed.
Donated facilities and donated professional services are recognised in income at their fair value when their economic benefit is probable, it can be measured reliably and the Charity has control over the item. Fair value is determined on the basis of the value of the gift to the Charity. No amount is included in the accounts for volunteer time in line with the SORP (FRS 102).
The Charity receives government and other grants in respect of the housing and care services it provides. Income from government and other grants are recognised at fair value when the Charity has entitlement after any performance conditions have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. If entitlement is not met then these amounts are deferred. Where the Charity works with partners in providing services, but is ultimately responsible for delivery of the service, then income is recognised in full in the accounts where it meets the criteria above.
Investment income is earned through holding assets for investments purposes and includes bank interest. It is included when the amount can be measured reliably.
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.
Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity.
Support costs allocation
Support costs are those that assist the work of the Charity but do not directly represent charitable activities and include office costs, governance costs and administrative payroll costs. They are incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management. Where support costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities on a basis consistent with use of the resources.
The analysis of these costs is included within note 8.
Intangible assets are those created due to the Implementation of new systems and are recognised at cost and amortised over the estimated minimum usual life of the implemented software.
Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:
No depreciation has been charged on the Charity's freehold property as the residual value of the properties is higher than their cost, and therefore any depreciation charge would be immaterial. Properties are reviewed annually for impairment.
A limit of £500 has been set so that items of a fixed nature will be capitalised if above this amount.
Investments are recognised initially at fair value which is normally the transaction price excluding transaction costs. Subsequently, they are measured at fair value with changes recognised in 'net gains / (losses) on investments' in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) if the shares are publicly traded or their fair value can otherwise be measured reliably. Other investments are measured at cost less impairment.
Current asset investments are short term highly liquid investments and are held at fair value. These include cash on deposit and cash equivalents with a maturity of less than one year.
Assets not measured at fair value are reviewed for any indication that the asset may be impaired at each balance sheet date. If such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset, or the asset's cash generating unit, is estimated and compared to the carrying amount. Where the carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount, an impairment loss is recognised in income or expenditure unless the asset is carried at a revalued amount where the impairment loss is a revaluation decrease.
Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
The Charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the Charity's balance sheet when the Charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
The Charity is an exempt charity within the meaning of schedule 3 of the Charities Act 2011 and is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes.
When employees have rendered services to the charity, short-term employee benefits to which the employees are entitled are recognised at the undiscounted amount expected to be paid in exchange for that service.
The Charity operates a defined contribution plan for the benefit of its employees. Contributions are expensed as they become payable.
In the application of the Charity’s accounting policies, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives. Expected useful life in this calculation is an estimate. A review is required annually to ensure no assets are being depreciated by more than cost, and that consumption is appropriate.
Income for projects is deferred where milestones have not been met by the year-end, which is entitlement and where project income is received in advance of contracted date.
Charitable Income
Charitable Income
Grants from Trusts/Big Lottery
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
SIL housing contract
Rents receivable
Residents housing service charge
The Trustees neither received nor waived any remuneration during the year (2024: £Nil).
The total amount of employee benefits received by key management personnel is £555,117 (2024: £485,044). The Trust considers its key management personnel comprise the Board of Trustees and the Senior Management Team.
No trustees are accruing pension arrangements (2024: none).
Expenses totalling £Nil (2024: £Nil) were reimbursed to Trustees for travel and subsistence.
The average monthly number of employees during the year was:
Redundancy and termination payments totalling £8,771 were made in the reporting period.
The charity is exempt from taxation on its activities because all its income is applied for charitable purposes.
Deferred income is included in the financial statements as follows:
Deferred income relates to grants received for future periods.
The Charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Charity in an independently administered fund.
The restricted funds of the charity comprise the unexpended balances of donations and grants held on trust subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used.
CYP Recording Session
Providing free to access recording sessions in a professional studio with mentors for young people. Participants can compose music, write lyrics, record spoken word or learn recording skills to support how they express their mental health.
Mill decoration
This relates to funds received to redecorate our office and wellbeing centre the Mill in Oxford.
Oxfordshire Sports Partnership
To improve the participation rates of people with mental health problems, access new sporting activities in Oxfordshire.
Reaching Communities (Big Lottery)
Deliver specialist outreached based benefits advice and caseworks across Oxfordshire enabling people with mental health problems to navigate major changes in the benefits system to access their right entitlement.
Stone Family Foundation
To provide a dedicated service, supporting people with severe and enduring mental health at the Mill Oxford.
Youth in Mind
Funds received for our Young person’s mental heath conference Youth in Mind Community outreach. This relates to funds for working to engage communities that don’t access mental health services in the same proportion as the general population.
Mind in Berkshire
To provide funds for our work in Berkshire.
Community outreach
To provide funds for our work in support of the community outreach programme.
Community Active Travel Fund
Engaging people with mental health difficulties to participate in weekly wellbeing walks (within specific Wards of high derivation in Banbury and East Oxford), to increase physical activity and form part of their wellbeing journey.
Volunteer led BBMH
Part of a ‘service continuation’ fund from National Mind to train up volunteers to underpin the workload of referrals into the Benefits for Better MH programme’.
Kincraig Trust
Commissioning an independent research and report into the commissioning of the third sector to deliver MH services. Focussing on the economic value of third sector providers, with a case study approach of two contracts delivered by Oxfordshire Mind.
Oxfordshire Community Fund
Supporting a grassroots group in East Oxford (Women United) to self-determine and commission their own choice of group activities that support their mental health. This model devolves funds to a grassroots community, facilitated by Oxfordshire Mind.
Equity and Lived Experience
Working within the Mind Federation to identify and recruit a more diverse pool of Experts by Experience from under-represented communities, in order to bring in more truly diverse experiences and thought.
Yoga Quota
Funds donated by an organisation to provide yoga sessions for service users.
Witney Small Funds
Funds donated for use in this locality.
Banbury Hub
Funds donated for use in this locality.
South and Vale Allotment
Relates to funds donated to the provision of an allotment in South and Vale.
Grant for Resident
A grant to provide essentials for a resident to move to a new property.
Donations for Volunteers
Donation towards a tea to thank volunteers for their work
The unrestricted funds of the charity comprise the unexpended balances of donations and grants which are not subject to specific conditions by donors and grantors as to how they may be used. These include designated funds which have been set aside out of unrestricted funds by the trustees for specific purposes.
These are designated funds which are material to the Charity's activities made up as follows:
Incoming resources
Resources expended
Transfers
Incoming resources
Resources expended
Transfers
Access Fund
Funds allocated for projects that are not within the wellbeing contract and meet the objectives of Oxfordshire Mind.
Freehold Property Fund
This fund represents property held by the charity. These assets are required for the charitable activities of the charity, and thus do not form part of available general funds.
Legacy designated for matching funds
This is to be used for matching funds.
Insurance Claim
This is related to insurance claim income and repairs for flood damage costs.
At the reporting end date the Charity had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows:
Amounts recognised in profit or loss as an expense during the period in respect of operating lease arrangements was £401,972 (2024: £343,817).
Amounts contracted for but not provided in the financial statements:
There were no disclosable related party transactions during the year (2024 - none).
Oxfordshire Mind is a part of the National Federation. Although an independent organisation, we are subject to a regular audit (the Mind Quality Mark), which provides helpful scrutiny. A key benefit of the federation is the opportunity to work with colleagues in National Mind and other Local Mind Associations around the country and learn from each other. In addition, we are able to bid for funding from National Mind where appropriate.
The charity subscribes to the Mind Block insurance policy for local Mind groups.
The Charity had no material debt during the year.