2024-03-31-accounts - Teesside Mind Limited

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Teesside Mind Limited

(Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind Limited until 14 September 2023)

Our vision is that the people of Teesside enjoy good mental health, enabling them to lead full and happy lives.

Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts

For the year ended 31 March 2024

Charity number 1118098 Company Limited by Guarantee number 5884630

Registered office:

The Mind Centre, 90-92 Lothian Road, Middlesbrough TS4 2QX

Telephone: 01642 257020 Email: info@teessidemind.org.uk Website: www.teessidemind.org.uk

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Report of the trustees for the year ending 31 March 2024 (including directors’ report)

The trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ending 31 March 2024, which are also prepared to meet the requirements for a directors’ report and accounts for Companies Act purposes.

Public benefit, objectives, and activities

Public Benefit

The charity’s activities have been undertaken with due regard to the guidance published by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Objectives

The objects of Teesside Mind under its Memorandum and Articles of Association are:

promote the preservation of good mental health, by enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and recover from their condition
relieve the needs of people with mental health problems by working to increase understanding of mental health and its associated problems by gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness, promote understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination.

Teesside Mind’s overall vision is for the people of Teesside to enjoy good mental health, enabling them to lead full and happy lives.

Our purpose is to deliver activities, projects and services that contribute to better mental health and help address the underlying causes of poor emotional and mental health, particularly for those in the poorest health and worst social circumstances.

Our vision and purpose remain constant, but what we deliver changes all the time, as we innovate, gather new insights, learn from others, secure new funding and develop our approach.

In our strategy, we aim to achieve a balance between ambition and sustainability.

We continue to work as part of the Mind network across England and Wales towards our shared ambitions and goals. During the year, Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind merged with Redcar and Cleveland Mind and we changed our name to Teesside Mind.

Activities

Our plans during the year focus on meeting increasing need for mental health support resulting from the longer-term impacts of covid and the on-going cost-of-living crisis.

The projects and services provided during the year included:

Advocacy – we provided Independent Mental Health Advocacy, Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy, Care Act Advocacy, Relevant Person’s Representative Advocacy and General / nonstatutory advocacy to ensure people’s rights were upheld, they were equipped with the information they need to make decisions about their care and had their voices heard in relation to their treatment and futures.
Appropriate Adult – we recruited, trained and managed a team of volunteer Appropriate Adults who were on call to Cleveland Police custody service to support vulnerable adults who are being detained or questioned by the police.
Arts and Minds – in partnership with Stockton ARC, we delivered an arts, crafts and social programme to support wellbeing through creativity, skills development and social contact.
Carers’ support – we provided information, emotional and practical support for families and friends (unpaid carers) of people experiencing health problems. We worked with GPs and the wider primary care workforce to enable them to better identify carers and refer them on to services available to support them.
Children, young people and their families – we have provided evidence-based psychoeducation, emotional wellbeing support and psychological therapies to children and young

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

people experiencing mild to moderate emotional difficulties and mental health problems. We have collaborated with our partner organisation ‘A Time 4 You’ to support children’s mental health, funded by the Woodsmith Foundation. We delivered creative group work to primary school aged children to help them explore emotions, develop resilience, and create a peer support network.

Community Mental Health Transformation – In 3 localities, we support the national NHS agenda on transformation of community mental health. In Middlesbrough, we led a partnership of 7 local voluntary organsiations working alongside the NHS and Local Authority to provide voluntary sector support for people in need of community mental helath services, focusing on people experiencing severe and enduring difficulties. In Redcar and Cleveland, we were also a delivery partner supporting people within the local partnership. In Stockton on Tees, we contribute to the planning of new community services.
Financial difficulties – Our Firm Foundations project provided practical and mental health support to people in severe hardship to improve their circumstances and build resilience, in partnership with Actes. We worked with Mind, local Trussell Trust foodbanks and local Citizens Advice to develop a joined-up response to people experiencing mental health difficulties and money problems called Help through Hardship. We worked with Mind to develop and deliver a package of support for people experiencing mental health issues and money worries, called Money and Me.
Green Social Prescribing (Rooted in Nature) – in partnership with five local voluntary organisations, we connected people experiencing mental health difficulties and those impacted by Covid with nature-based activities to support their long-term health and wellbeing.
Maternal Mental Health – we delivered a prototype service in partnership with the NHS and Ways to Wellness to provide link worker support and peer support for pregnant women and women with babies aged under two years.
Psychological therapies and recovery support (Impact on Teesside) – we worked in partnership with Alliance Psychological Therapies to deliver NHS primary care psychological therapies and community mental health recovery support across Teesside. We delivered wellbeing courses through the Recovery College. We trained people with lived experience of mental health problems to volunteer as college co-tutors and to provide peer support.
Redcar and Cleveland Wellbeing service (previously Road to Recovery) – we provided person centred mental health and wellbeing support to residents of Redcar and Cleveland. Through one to one emotional and practical support, and peer support groups, we ensured that the support we offered was accessible to those who needed it.
Social Prescribing – we provided Social Prescribing Link Worker support for people registered with GP practices across three Primary Care Networks in Middlesbrough and one in Stockton-onTees. We provided person-centred, holistic support based on the ‘What matters to me’ approach, addressing broad health and social issues and connecting people with community-based services and activities that were of interest and benefit to them.
Workplace wellbeing and private counselling services – we provided tailored consultancy and designed and delivered customised mental health programmes for employers and their workforces. We provided paid therapy service to respond to employee and employer needs.

Volunteering

During the year, our Charity was supported by 56 people undertaking formal volunteering roles. They contributed 2,353 hours of their time through volunteering. In addition, many people also contributed informally by volunteering at one-off fundraising events or other pop-up volunteering opportunities.

During the year we also invested in a part-time Volunteer Development Lead to improve support for volunteers and to identify new ways to involve volunteers across our services and projects. This was done with volunteer involvement.

Feedback from volunteers included: "I wanted to give back to those who had helped me, and see other people get well"; "I get great satisfaction seeing people grow"; "I used to suffer from depression, it's (volunteering) now almost my therapy, it's (volunteering) given me my confidence and self-esteem back".

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Service Design

We have continued to build on our service design ethos and practice over the past year. Between April and August 2023, we focussed on finalising our Off the Scales programme. Delivery of the programme began in September. After delivering two cohorts of the developed programme, a feedback session was held with participants to gather insight about any changes that could be made to improve the programme and their experience. All the suggestions were taken on board and adjustments to the contact and resources were made accordingly, including increasing the number of sessions offered and developing additional content around body image and self-esteem. The re-developed programme was delivered to a new cohort in January 2024, which received positive feedback.

Another branch of the service design project that ultimately became Off the Scales was acknowledging the strong presence of weight stigma within society and particularly healthcare settings. It was felt that this is something that we could and should raise awareness of and challenge in any way that we could. To that end, we started to reach out to people in Teesside to share their experiences of weight stigma to help us better understand what action needs to be taken to challenge this. Surveys, interviews, and desktop research was gathered as a start to this piece of work.

Our main service design project for 2023/24 was Mind’s Eye – seeing mental health from the view of a young person. This included a six-month service design phase from Aug 2023 – Jan 2024 in which a team of seven, including two young people peer designers, gathered research and developed a new service to meet the needs of young people in Teesside. The outcome of the design process was a dropin service called Be Heard which will initially be available to young people aged between 11 – 16 years old and two locations across Teesside from Autumn 2024.

Fundraising and events

The support we received from individual and corporate donors was hugely appreciated. This support made a vital contribution to maintaining our services for the communities of Teesside. Our fundraising team developed a diverse and creative fundraising portfolio to raise unrestricted income, whilst also raising awareness of our organisation across Teesside. Fundraising income streams included individual giving, a school’s programme, sponsored challenges, corporate giving, events and giving campaigns. Our team placed great importance on building relationships with donors and supporters, so they knew how their efforts contributed to the work of the organisation.

Our fundraising team organise fundraising events and co-ordinate the activities of our supporters in the wider community on behalf of Teesside Mind. Teesside Mind does not use professional fundraisers or involve commercial participators. There have been no complaints about fundraising activity this year. All direct marketing is undertaken by the fundraising team to ensure that it is not unreasonably intrusive or persistent.

Successes included:

Bark In The Park, an event held in Stewart Park, which had over 500 people attend, and was supported by 35 event sponsors, partners and stallholders, raising over £5,200.
The Great North Run, in collaboration with National Mind, grew to 35 supporters raising over £14,000.
Corporate support continued to grow, with local businesses fundraising through various challenges from Razorblue’s 140-mile Coast-to-Coast Cycle Challenge in April to CTO Digital’s North Sea Dip in December, which raised almost £1,400.
Match-funding campaigns through the Big Give platform raised over £5,900 and £13,700 respectively during the year.
Our growing schools programme was enhanced by colour runs, with pilot schools The King’s Academy and The Avenue Primary raising £7,600 between them from their events.
We received a £6,000 from the Horrigan family from a memory walk they held in honour of their brother Andy.
We were delighted to welcome our first Platinum Partner, Vision Building Services Limited, at the year end.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Achievements and performance

During the year, we provided direct support services to more than 10,500 people through our community (2023: 10,200) and employer services and 17,000 people through our Impact on Teesside partnership (2023: 17,200). This is a tremendous achievement and a huge credit to our staff and volunteers.

Within Impact on Teesside, we supported over 850 people on a one-to-one basis through our Recovery and Foundations team and Recovery College which is led by Teesside Mind. We supported people to make positive changes in their lives and achieve new goals. Feedback from people we’ve worked with included: ‘His (workers) help and support has helped me move on with my life and gave me the confidence and ability to move forward’; ‘I have learnt so much since starting this recovery course. It’s visible to myself and others around me how much it has helped me in tough situations’; and ‘I have been receiving home visits from one of your workers. I felt compelled to write this as our time together is coming to an end. I have had many support workers over the years and nobody has made such an impact on me as her. If she is an example of the level of support workers you provide then I'm sure you have helped many people through some of the worst times in their lives, probably responsible for saving lives too.’

This year we moved into our fourth year of delivering NHS-funded social prescribing services in partnership with local Primary Care Networks. We currently work with 4 PCNs (Central Middlesbrough PCN, Holgate PCN, Greater Middlesbrough PCN and BYTES PCN), covering 24 GP practices and employing 27 Social Prescribing Link Workers. During the year, we supported 3,067 people, a 19% increase on the previous year and people reported a 75% improvement in their wellbeing. During the year, our service offer expanded to include children and young people social prescribers, health focus social prescribers and complex mental health social prescribers, alongside adult social prescribers. Further to this, we increased variety in our support offer including: drop-in sessions; walking groups; bereavement café; bereavement workshops; arts and crafts group; and non-clinical healthy lifestyle pathways.

Launched in July 2022, with funding from the NHS through Ways to Wellness, we delivered one of four maternal mental health link worker prototypes in the North East and North Cumbria. Our Link Worker worked closely with maternal and paternal pathways to identify new and expectant mums who may benefit from additional support. The service particularly aimed to support women from ethnically diverse backgrounds who may experience health inequalities and/or barriers to accessing support. As part of this project, we set up 2 peer support groups in 2 local community centres. Our Link Worker also delivered Cultural Awareness sessions to health professionals. The training provides an insight into some of the religious and cultural norms that are followed by Muslim Pakistani families.

Supported Self Help, funded by National Mind, was launched in October 2023 for people with low to moderate mental health needs. We were one of the 27 local Minds that worked with National Mind, delivering mainly telephone-based guided self-help.

Our children and young people’s team have continued to work with wider stakeholders to meet growing demand. The team has worked directly with primary and secondary schools across Teesside. We have supported over 1,000 children and young people on a one-to-one basis. We supported over 7,000 children through whole school approach, such as assemblies, psychoeducation groups, drop in's etc, over 550 parents and offered advice to over 750 professionals. One parent fed back - "I now have the skills for my daughter when she is feeling anxious". A young person fed back - "Always someone to talk to, who would validate my feelings and emotions. Someone who cared about my feelings, even when I didn't".

With funding from South Tees local authorities, we continued our work to support unpaid family carers and encourage GPs and Primary Care professionals to identify carers and make sure they receive the help they need. We’ve supported unpaid carers of people with mental health struggles through 1:1 wellbeing support, practical support, and two regular peer support groups. Our help was wide ranging according to people’s needs. We helped with dealing with anti-social behaviour, developing skills and confidence, reducing social isolation, improving access to healthcare, and information on benefits and finances. We supported groups to access nature, visiting forests and beaches, and to try new activities

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such as bowling. Carers told us of the importance of having someone to talk to about their struggles and feeling that someone is there with them on their journey.

Supported by NHS Charities Together, working with 5 local partners, we continued to support people experiencing mental health issues to get involved in therapeutic nature-based activities as a way of improving their wellbeing. In total, 431 people benefitted from the project. One of the participants described their reduced anxiety in being outdoors: ‘"Since the fieldtrip, I haven't chewed my nails. Ever since I was little I have chewed them because I was anxious. Look at them now! The fieldtrip and these walks have changed that."

Working with around 300 people a month, our team of advocates worked alongside a wide range of different organisations to achieve the best outcomes for people who may be vulnerable or lacking capacity. We were asked to nominate and present an award representing Mind at Roseberry Park hospital’s forensic unit patient awards. We continuously advocate for equality, human rights and best practice often influencing the type of care someone receives.

Our Appropriate Adults service supported over 2,900 vulnerable adults in Custody. Our team of Appropriate Adults grew as we have pushed recruitment. We attended the National Appropriate Adult conference in London and shared our good practice. An interviewing officer described the service as ‘excellent, I don’t know how we would function in relation to interviews without it’.

Our Workplace Wellbeing service provided consultancy and bespoke mental health and wellbeing training to a range of public and private sector organisations across Teesside including clients such as Fujifilm, ConocoPhillips, and Tilbury Douglas. We developed new workshops based on common themes shared by organisations and introduced free monthly webinars on a range of topics. We developed partnerships with Chamber of Commerce and CIPD as well as local VCSE organisations. Feedback included: ‘Teesside Mind delivered Listening Skills training to our staff working in SEN/D. It was really well received, everyone felt more confident and better informed afterwards about active listening skills. The trainers were superb, very knowledgeable and made the session engaging and accessible. Learning outcomes were achieved and we had fun in the process! Thanks so much.’

We continued to deliver our Employee Assistance Programme. We delivered therapy in person and remotely, including therapies such as EMDR, Couples counselling and Children/Family Counselling. Feedback from an employer included: ‘We could tell that this was going to be a good service. Really friendly, helpful, and efficient throughout the whole process. The speed that staff are contacted is absolutely outstanding. When staff ask to be referred, many are in a bad place with their mental health. The speed that they can access this service makes a positive difference to their recovery. We can’t thank the service enough’.

We delivered the final year of our Firm Foundations project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. In partnership with Actes, we supported people that were in financial hardship. During the 2 years of the project, we received 232 people, supporting people with their mental health as well as practical help such as food parcels, help with applying for benefits, help with debt including utilities and claiming council tax refunds. Monitoring showed that 98% of clients identified improvement in managing their money and 97% of clients improved their wellbeing.

Funded by Walkers and Comic Relief Smiles Fund, in partnership with Stockton Arc, this 2-year project ended in March 2024. We developed and delivered an arts, crafts and social project to prevent mental health problems escalating and help people stay well. People were able to attend regular sessions led by professional artists and had opportunities to display their artwork at the Arc. Participants developed skills in mosaics, journaling, calligraphy, set/production design, song writing, 3D modelling, collaging, and zine making. 100% of participants that attended the sessions, said that they had improved mental well-being. Social events were incorporated into the project with over 30 people attending social sessions including, arts exhibitions, pantomime, comedy nights, meals out and a trip to Whitby. A group of participants wanted to continue accessing arts and craft sessions and wanted to give something back to Teesside Mind. They set up a Creative Friends group, that meets weekly, sharing their skills and knowledge to others, and making items to be sold at local events.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Financial review

Our income for this financial year was £5,878,469 – an increase of £1,427,114 from the previous financial year (2023: £4,451,355), which reflects an increase of £1,245,215 in unrestricted income, and an increase in income of £181,899 on restricted funded projects.

We spent £5,418,465 on delivering our projects and services during the year, an increase of £629,849 on the previous year (2023: £4,788,616). This reflected a £539,515 increase in cost of activity on service delivery funded through unrestricted and designated funds, and an increase in spending on restricted funded projects of £90,334.

Reserves Policy

In line with Charity Commission requirements, the charity has a Reserves Policy based on a realistic assessment of its needs. During the financial year, the Trustees monitored their policy on reserves, based on an assessment of potential liabilities arising in future against the previous requirement to hold reserves at the level of between three to six months of operational expenditure. The outcome of the review was that the Trustees agreed to continue to hold General Reserves of £1,480,000 (2023: £1,480,000) with any excess at year end being transferred to the designated reserves for capacity building and the development and testing of new services once agreed by the trustees. The Reserves Policy will be reviewed by the Board on a six-monthly basis. At the year end the charity held free reserves of £1,142,641.

Although the Trustees believe that it is prudent to maintain a proportion of the organisation’s reserves in the ongoing uncertainty of the economic challenges of 2024 , the Trustees wanted to continue to use some reserves to further the charity’s objectives and support more people experiencing mental health difficulties particularly during the cost-of-living crisis. The Trustees identified several areas where funding will be allocated, as described below.

Designated funds

The designated reserves increased to £1,192,930 at the end of the financial year in accordance with the revised policy described above. Designated funds remain in place for the Capital Asset Fund at £70,138. This represents our investment in the refurbishments of the Lothian Road building and is being written back over the term of the lease of the premises.

A three-year plan is maintained for the use of the other designated funds, including organisational development, capacity building and volunteer development. Expenditure of designated funds in the year amounted to £133,255.

Social and financial investment

The charity has one social investment in relation to an agreement with Mind Matters (Trading Activities) Limited, in which we provide investment in exchange for a share of the surplus. The financial investment of our cash deposits is made to produce the best financial return possible within an acceptable level of risk and taking account of the administrative costs involved.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Plans for the future

Although concerns about Covid have substantially passed, inflation and the cost of living have continued to affect our communities and their mental health during the year. Demand on health and social welfare services has continued to be very high, in some circumstances impacting on availability and quality. We will continue to work hard to address this moving forward, as part of the wider health and social care system.

As reported in our previous annual report, the merger of Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind and Redcar and Cleveland Mind was completed in September 2023 and our Charity became Teesside Mind. The key drivers for the merger were enhancing service delivery, creating opportunities to work more efficiently and effectively, increasing sustainability, and extending our reach to improve support to our beneficiaries across the whole of Teesside. We were pleased with the successful transition and the positive responses from wider stakeholders. We will continue to consolidate and grow our work in Redcar and Cleveland as well as across wider Teesside.

In early 2023, the Board of Trustees revisited its strategic plan for the following three years, from 2023 to 2026. The plan aims to build on the successes and achievements of the organisation to date. The first year of the plan was completed very effectively and we progressed activities to make digital delivery more central to our work, enable people with lived experience to influence and participate in our work, increase volunteer involvement and co-design new services with young people.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Reference and administrative information

Charity name Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind Limited until 14 September 2023 Teesside Mind Limited from 15 September 2023 Operating name Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind until 14 September 2023 Teesside Mind from 15 September 2023 Charity registration number 1118098 Company registration number 05884630 Registered office The Mind Centre 90-92 Lothian Road Middlesbrough TS4 2QX Bankers Virgin Money Central Branch Linthorpe Road Middlesbrough TS1 1RF Auditors Baines Jewitt Limited Statutory Auditors Spitfire House, 19 Falcon Court Preston Farm Industrial Estate Stockton-on-Tees. TS18 3TU

The Directors of the charitable company are its trustees for the purpose of Charity Law. The Trustees and Chief Executive serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:

Trustees Sue Cash Gary Emerson Ruth Hicks (resigned 11 March 2024) Metab Hussain Graham Lyons (appointed 15 July 2024) Charlie Nettle (resigned 11 March 2024) Ruth Smith Thomas Smith Girija Taylor Angela Turley (appointed 15 July 2024) Nicola Wass David Williams Chair: Ruth Smith Vice Chair: Charlie Nettle (resigned 11 March 2024) Gary Emerson (from 11 March 2024) Treasurer: David Williams Chief Executive: Emma Howitt Senior Leadership Team: Kerry Robinson, Deputy Chief Executive Simon McKnight, Finance Manager

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Structure, governance and management

Legal status and governing document

Teesside Mind Limited (name changed from Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind Limited from 15 September 2023) is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 24 July 2006. Its governing document is its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Trading subsidiary

Teesside Mind Limited has a trading subsidiary company, Middlesbrough & Stockton Mind Trading Limited. This company did not trade during the year and is not expected to do so in the foreseeable future.

Appointment and induction of trustees

Trustees are recruited through public or targeted advertisement to ensure the appropriate mix of skills and knowledge and reflection of the local community. Each year, at the Annual General Meeting, one third of trustees retire and further trustees are appointed as needed. Retiring trustees may be reappointed. There is no maximum number of trustees. No persons external to the charity are entitled to appoint trustees.

New trustees are provided with induction, support and training on their role, including their legal obligations under charity and company laws. They receive an induction which includes a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association and all other relevant documents. Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate internal and external training opportunities to help them contribute as fully as possible to the organisation.

Organisational structure

The Board of Trustees meets six times a year to consider governance and strategic issues. The Chief Executive has delegated responsibility for the operations of the organisation and implementation of the strategic plan, including staff management and fundraising. The Chief Executive reports on progress to the Board of Trustees. The Chief Executive is supported by the Senior Leadership Team.

The Mind Network and related parties

Teesside Mind is part of the Mind network through the Mind Federation Agreement. This does not impact on Teesside Mind’s operational policies.

Teesside Mind identifies one of its key roles as influencing others for the wider benefit of people who experience mental health problems, based on its insight into people’s experiences locally. We do this by participating in multi-agency partnerships and supporting individuals and their families to raise issues themselves.

Pay policy for senior staff

The Board of Trustees considers that the Senior Leadership Team comprises the key management personnel of the Charity in charge of operating the Charity on a day-to-day basis. The pay of senior staff within the team is reviewed annually. The Trustees benchmark against pay levels in the local and regional voluntary sector for similar size charities.

All trustees are volunteers and no trustee received remuneration in the year. Details of trustees’ expenses are disclosed in note 13 to the accounts.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Risk management

The Board of Trustees’ view is that the principal risks facing the charity relate to the long-term impacts of Covid and rising cost of living on its current activities and its work over the coming five to ten years. This includes the impact of the pandemic on the nation’s health and mental health, the growing demands on public services and charities, and the resources available to them to meet that demand.

Our risk management plans and systems include six-monthly review of strategic risks and associated mitigating actions at Trustees meetings and Senior Leadership Team meetings, regular review of the Risk Register and detailed risk management plans for key risks, trustee leadership in the organisation’s Audit and Risk sub-group, annual business and service/project plans, and our financial management processes. All major risks have been reviewed and systems and procedures have been established to manage those risks.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Statement of Trustee Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of Teesside Mind Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual 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 charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for the 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 2019 (FRS 102);
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;
prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company 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 charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

there is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company’s auditor is unaware: and
• the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website.

Appointment of auditor

In accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution for the appointment of Baines Jewitt Limited as auditors of the charity was passed during the Finance Sub-group Meeting.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 18 November 2024 and signed on its behalf by

Ruth Smith, Chair of Board of Trustees

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of Teesside Mind Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Teesside Mind Limited (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities including Income and Expenditure Account, 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:

give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company’s affairs as at 31 March 2024 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

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 charitable company 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.

Conclusions relating to Going Concern

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 company’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 regard to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other Information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ 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

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misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on Other Matter Prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

the information given in the trustees’ report which includes the directors’ report prepared for the purpose of company law, for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
the directors’ report included within the trustees’ report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are Required to Report by Exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in 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/directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of Trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 11, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of charity 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 charitable company’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.

Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements

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 about, 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;

Based on our understanding of the charitable company, we identified that the principal risks of noncompliance with laws and regulations related to Company and Charity law, and we considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements.

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We evaluated management’s opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls). Audit procedures performed by the engagement team include:

enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims;
performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud;
testing the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments;
assessing whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates were indicative of a potential bias; and
reviewing minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed noncompliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely it is that we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: 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.

Mrs A Cowley FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Baines Jewitt Limited Statutory Auditors Spitfire House 19 Falcon Court Preston Farm Industrial Estate STOCKTON-ON-TEES TS18 3TU

Dated: 18 November 2024

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

The notes on pages 18 to 31 form part of these accounts.

Teesside Mind Limited Trustees’ annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Approved by the Board of Directors/Trustees on 18 November 2024

.................................... D Williams (Treasurer) Company Number 5884630

........................................... R Smith (Chair)

The notes on pages 18 to 31 form part of these accounts.

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

1. (a) General information and basis of preparation

Teesside Mind Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The address of the registered office is given in the charity information on page 8 of these financial statements. Our main objective is to provide the high-quality projects and services that enable people experiencing emotional or mental health problems and their families to recover, increase wellbeing and build resilience.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the charity's governing document, 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) issued in October. The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis under the historical cost convention, modified to include certain items at fair value. The presentational currency used in the financial statements is sterling and balances are rounded to the nearest pound.

The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all years presented unless otherwise stated.

(b) Accounting Policies

Income recognition

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the 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.

No amount is included in the financial statements for volunteer time in line with the SORP (FRS102).

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.

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Accounting policies (continued)

Expenditure recognition

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Expenditure is recognised where there is a legal or constructive obligation to make payments to third parties, it is probable that the settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Grants payable to third parties are within the charitable objectives. Where unconditional grants are offered, this is accrued as soon as the recipient is notified of the grant, as this gives rise to a reasonable expectation that the recipient will receive the grants. Where grants are conditional relating to performance then the grant is only accrued when any unfulfilled conditions are outside the control of the charity.

Fixed assets

Only fixed assets with an initial value or cost of at least £1,000 are capitalised. Fixed assets are initially recorded at purchase cost plus the costs of any directly attributable expenditure. The investment property was transferred from Redcar and Cleveland Mind at fair value. Subsequently, it is measured at fair value at the reporting date.

Investments including Social Investment

The Charity has a social investment in relation to an agreement with Mind Matters (Trading Activities) Limited, in that they provide investment in exchange for a share of the profit made. This investment is capitalised and then amortised over a period of 5 years.

Depreciation

Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis over the useful economic life of the asset. In view of the short-term nature of some of the restricted projects, the Board considers it prudent to write off fixed assets purchased from restricted funds in full in the year of acquisition.

The leasehold property alterations are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the 15-year term of the lease. Freehold property is depreciated over 50 years on a straight-line basis. Associated grant funding is shown as a designated fund and will be written down over the same period. The investment property is not depreciated.

Financial instruments

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all its financial liabilities.

Taxation

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.

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees believe that no material uncertainties exist. The trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. The budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to be able to continue as a going concern.

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Accounting policies (continued)

Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds that are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are those which can only be used in accordance with the wishes of the donor.

Pension contributions

The charitable company operates a Group Personal Pension Scheme, operated through the Pensions Trust, for the benefit of its own staff. Pension contributions to defined contribution schemes are written off to the statement of financial activities in the year to which they relate. The charity further contributes to a defined benefit pension scheme, The Teesside Pension Fund, for two employees which have TUPE transferred into the charity. The charity is not an admitted member of the Teesside Pension scheme. As a result all employer contributions are shown as a cost in the SoFA and any unpaid pension contributions due at the year-end are included within Other Creditors.

Transfers between funds

The transfer from restricted funds to unrestricted funds represents management and administration charges earned on projects and any surpluses or deficits on the finalisation of projects (subject to funders agreement).

Subsidiary Company

Consolidated accounts have not been prepared this year as the wholly owned subsidiary, Middlesbrough & Stockton Mind Trading Limited, did not trade during the year and is not expected to do so in the foreseeable future. This is currently under review for closure.

Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

There are no judgements (apart from those involving estimates) that have had a significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements:

The estimates and assumptions that could have a significant potential impact on the carrying values of assets and liabilities are as follows:

Useful economic lives of tangible fixed assets. These are set out in the depreciation policy note above and are the best estimate based on past experience and expected performance.

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Notes to the accounts

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5. Trustees Indemnity Insurance

The charity subscribes to Mind Block Insurance, which is provided by a third party, and purchased indemnity insurance within the terms of the 1996 agreement. A total of £1,204 was paid during the year (2023: £1,120).

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7. Taxation

The charity is exempt from Corporation Tax on its charitable activities and the Board believe that no liability has arisen during the year.

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Transfers

Transfers from restricted funds represent overhead charges which are levied in accordance with the funding agreement of each fund. Transfers from the capital asset fund relate to the write down of refurbishment works on the Lothian Road premises. Transfers to the Other Pilot Projects fund represent excess funds transferred from general reserves (see Designated Funds on page 6).

National Lottery Community Fund – Ageing Better – funding for the Age Friendly Middlesbrough project

– National Lottery Community Fund – Firm Foundations funding for the Firm Foundation project

National Lottery Community Fund – Community Minded – funding for the Community Minded project

Middlesbrough Borough Council – Ageing Better - funding for the Age Friendly Middlesbrough project.

National Mind – Investing in Mental Health – funding for the Help through Hardship project

– National Mind – Schools and Colleges Early Support Service funding to provide phone and online support

National Mind – Help Through Hardship Local – funding to be part of a national programme with Citizen’s Advice and Tressell Trust

National Mind – Redcar Merger – funding to support the merger with Redcar & Cleveland Mind

National Mind – Supported Self Help – funding to support our one-to-one guided self-help service

Comic Relief Smiles Fund – funding for Arts and Minds creative project

Woodsmith – Time 4 Your Mind – funding for emotional health and wellbeing support for children and young people

Cost of Living Support – funding for support with community groups events and individual sessions

NHS Charities Together – funding for the Rooted in Nature project, for green social prescribing activities

Blue Stone Collaborative - Ways to Wellness – funding for the Maternal Mental Health project, for mental health link worker support

Ballinger Trust – funding for befriending for older people

Community Mental Health Transformation – Footprints in the Community - funding for a Community Wellbeing Partnership to provide a service which meets the needs of those with mental health problems

Investment Properties – rental properties transferred following the merger with Redcar & Cleveland Mind

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13 Trustee Expenses

No remuneration was paid to the trustees in the year (2023: £Nil). Costs for the ten trustees in the year were £889 (2023: £2,400).

14. Company Limited by Guarantee

The company is limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital.

15. Subsidiary Company

Middlesbrough & Stockton Mind Trading Limited (Company number 07158554) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teesside Mind Limited and has been dormant since 31[st] March 2012.

16. Related Party transactions

A register of trustees' interests and related parties is held and updated on an ongoing basis to ensure the Charity can monitor and manage any potential conflicts of interest and ensure transparency. Trustees are not involved in any decisions where there is a potential conflict of interests.

The wife of trustee Metab Hussain is employed by the charity and received remuneration totalling £25,643 during the year (2023: £33,939).

The following related to trustee Gary Emerson during the year:

Room Hire income of £500 from Tees Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (2023: £nil)
Payment of £17,141 to Stockton District Advice and Information Service for delivery as part of the Help Through Hardship Project (2023: £10,480)

17. Capital and Operating Lease Commitments

At 31[st] March 2024 there were no commitments to capital expenditure.

Total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:

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