## **Kent Minds Trustees Activity Report 1[st] April 2024 – 31[st] March 2025**
## **Introduction**
During the course of this year, we began to consider how best to serve the mental health community in Kent that we have given grants to for so many years now. We discussed issues including the realities of running a small charity, the ever-increasing demands being made on our supporter’s time but also, growing demands on everyone to make donations to an ever-growing list of worthy beneficiaries.
Our route to raising funds has always been based around arranging a wide variety of events that our supporters would donate to come to – these have ranged from shopping evenings to garden tours to opera nights but generating optimum charitable returns purely from events needs to be done on a scale that Kent Minds is not really suited to.
Therefore, in the Spring of 2024 the Committee met to discuss the way forward as the original trustees recognised that successfully operating Kent Minds was becoming increasingly challenging. Without increased support to deliver events at larger scale, we were forced to conclude that we would be unable to provide the fund-raising activities that have been so important to our supporters.
As a consequence, and after much discussion, it was agreed that we would put Kent Minds into a state of inactivity after 2025, and would probably follow this by winding up the Charity at some point in the future. That would be no earlier than 2026 at the earliest and would give us the opportunity to make additional donations to good causes until our funds are exhausted.
Making this decision early in 2024 also allowed us the opportunity to create a tremendous final event, as outlined below.
## **Fund Raising Activity**
## Opera Evening with the Victoria Consort
On Thursday 27[th] June the Committee welcomed guests to Doddington House by kind invitation of Richard and Amicia Oldfield. Our supporters enjoyed rose wine and prosecco
and delicious canapes whilst they wandered around the beautiful gardens of Doddington House. Meanwhile the Victoria Consort arrived to sing a programme of well-loved Opera duets and solo pieces. The atmosphere was truly inspiring, and our chairman gave her last speech to tumultuous applause. As the guests left, we packed up with heavy hearts but satisfied that we had, with the help of our supporters raised much needed funds for mental health charities in Kent over 10 years.
## **Grant Making Activity**
Our principle grant of the year was made In August 2024 where we gave £4000 to The Amber Foundation for Downsview which is a supported housing centre for young people. It has space for 25 18–30-year-olds who stay on average 6-9 months. During their time at Amber, they receive the support, encouragement and opportunities they need so they can move on to a job, a place in education or training and, most importantly, a safe place to call home.
October 2025 saw us give grants to the following:
- Ashford Samaritans - £684
- Bechange - £2000
- Oasis Domestic Abuse - £2000
- Canterbury Samaritans - £500
In November we gave Porchlight £2000 and our final grant for the year, in April 2025 saw us support the charity Stillwaters where we gave £500.
All grants from October 2024 were made for specific projects identified by the charity concerned, as we always try to avoid contributing to ongoing running costs as we believe providing project-based grants is the most effective way of utilising the funds we have available.
|**Kent Minds**|||**1163793**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|4/6/2024|**To**|4/5/2025||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations - 3101
**3,065**
Tickets - 3101
**5,040**
Raffle - 3101
**759**
Other Donations for Period
**309**
**-**
Gift Aid Receipts
**579**
**-**
**-**
**9,752**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 9,752**
**A3 Payments**
Grants(if list is too long)
**11,682**
Expenses - 3100
**2,100**
General Expenses
**761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 14,543**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 14,543**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 4,791**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ - 4,791**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,065**
**5,040**
**759**
**309**
**579**
**9,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,752**
**11,682**
**2,100**
**761**
**14,543**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,543**
**- 4,791**
**-**
**-**
**- 4,791**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,065**|**-**|
||||**5,040**|**-**|
||||||
||||||
||||**759**||
||||||
||||**309**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**579**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**9,752**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**9,752**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**11,682**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**2,100**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**761**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**14,543**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**14,543**|**-**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 4,791**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**- 4,791**|**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Cash if any
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Bank account with Lloyds end of year
amount
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**1,771**
**-**
**-**
**1,771**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|Signature|Print Name
Arabella Bridget Rachel Maudslay|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|
||Arabella Bridget Rachel Maudslay|15th November 202|
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