**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** My Mito Mission
|**On accounts for the year**
**ended**|31 December 2024|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1176616|
|---|---|---|---|
## **Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 2 September 2025
**Name:** Jennifer Horsley FCMA
**Relevant professional** CIMA **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** Roxmoor, Skircoat Moor Road Halifax HX3 0HJ
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**
**My Mito Mission No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/01/2024 31/12/2024 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**51,522**
**55,933**
**3,689**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,144**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,144**
**6,078**
**7,448**
**50,639**
**4,165**
**2,870**
**15,686**
**50,000**
**-**
**-**
**136,886**
**480**
**-**
**480**
**137,366**
**- 26,222**
**-**
**64,920**
**38,698**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**20,950**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,950**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,950**
**20,950**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,450**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,450**
**- 500**
**-**
**500**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**20,950**
**51,522**
**55,933**
**3,689**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**132,094**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**132,094**
**27,028**
**7,448**
**50,639**
**4,165**
**3,370**
**15,686**
**50,000**
**-**
**-**
**158,336**
**480**
**-**
**480**
**158,816**
**- 26,722**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**20,950**
**51,522**
**55,933**
**3,689**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**132,094**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**132,094**
**27,028**
**7,448**
**50,639**
**4,165**
**3,370**
**15,686**
**50,000**
**-**
**-**
**158,336**
**480**
**-**
**480**
**158,816**
**- 26,722**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grants|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**20,950**||**-**|
|Fundraising& Donations|**51,522**|||**51,522**||**-**|
|Event income|**55,933**|||**55,933**||**-**|
|Other income|**3,689**|||**3,689**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**111,144**|||**132,094**||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**132,094**||**-**|
||||||||
|Support Costs|**6,078**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**27,028**||**-**|
|Awareness Costs|**7,448**|||**7,448**||**-**|
|StaffingCosts|**50,639**|||**50,639**||**-**|
|FundraisingCosts|**4,165**|||**4,165**||**-**|
|Other Admin/Insurance etc|**2,870**|||**3,370**||**-**|
|Event costs|**15,686**|||**15,686**||**-**|
|Reserchgrant|**50,000**|||**50,000**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**136,886**|||**158,336**||**-**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|**Equipment**|**480**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**480**|||
||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**480**|||**480**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**158,816**||**-**|
||||||||
||**- 26,222**|**- 500**|**-**|**- 26,722**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**64,920**|**500**||**65,420**||**-**|
||**38,698**|**-**|**-**|**38,698**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
19/09/2025
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank
Cash in Hand
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**38,652**
**46**
**38,698**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Date of approval
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
19/09/2025
2
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1[st] January 2024 to 31[st] December 2024**
## **Charity name: My Mito Mission**
## **Charity registration number: 1176616**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1) To promote and protect the physical and**
**mental health of sufferers of Mitochondrial**
**Disease through the provision of support,**
**education and practical advice.**
**2) To advance the education of the public in**
**general (and particularly among scientists and**
**health professionals) in all areas relating to**
**Mitochondrial Disease and to promote**
**research for the public benefit into the causes**
**and treatment of the disease, with the useful**
**results of such research to be disseminated.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**For****_everyone_ with mito:**
**Support, Education & Practical Advice by**
**means of:**
**The use and awarding of funds for**
• **Awareness - to gain equity in mito’s**
**recognition, support and care.**
• **Support - to reduce isolation and bring**
**validation**
• **Research - to increase hopes of treatments**
**and a cure**
**Through means such as:**
• **Website – directory/information**
• **Benefit advice referrals**
• **Medical alert wristbands**
• **Social media/PR**
• **Events**
• **Nominations to other charities**
• **Promotional materials**
• **Merchandise**
• **Volunteering opportunities**|
|||**For****_those with mito who wish_, all the above**
**PLUS …**
• **Provision of and support to run an**
**individual ‘Mission’ – a personalised ‘mini**
**charity’ under our umbrella through which**
**they can raise awareness, funds for**
**research and gain understanding and**
**support from those around them**
• **Missionee Meet Up Weekend**
• **Missionee Zoom Meetings**
• **Missionee Facebook Group**
• **Missionee WhatsApp Group**
• **Missionee Counselling Service**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We aim to award a minimum of 50% of our**
**publicly raised funds to research after staff**
**costs.**
**We pay due diligence to ensure the quality of**
**the research and that it has the potential to**
**help the widest possible range of the mito**
**community. We involve our missionees in the**
**decisions of what we fund.**
**To date, we have directed our research**
**awards through The Lily Foundation, the**
**largest UK mito charity, in order to benefit**
**from their established processes and**
**expertise in:**
• **ensuring the quality of research bids**
• **ascertaining what the wider mito**
**community wants by way of research and**
**support.**
**We will remain open to alternative options**
**and keep this decision under annual review.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Contributions made by volunteers in both**
**assisting and operating our charity and**
**helping with awareness events and**
**fundraising continue to be invaluable.**
**Without our volunteer workforce the amount**
**of activity we do would have to be**|
**significantly reduced in order to still deliver our key objectives. Volunteer contribution versus paid staffing is 75%/25%. We are indebted to all volunteers and proud that we are able to effectively use so much volunteer time. Time commitments from our volunteers ranges from a few hours ad hoc to full time. Volunteer contribution enables such as office admin, events, ebay, vinted and merchandise sales, social media output, web editing and partnership engagement.** Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Our charity objects simplify into three key**
**areas, and we will report on this basis.**
**Awareness:**
**PR & Marketing**
•
**Social Media: Considerable growth across**
**main platforms, increasing our ability to**
**relay our key messages. More video**
**content created and used in order to**
**improve impact.**
•
**Public Relations: Found and engaged an**
**excellent partner, already achieving**
**increased publicity and reach.**
•
**Website: Continue to improve and**
**upgrade to ensure user friendly and**
**relevant information available to people**
**with mito and the general public.**
•
**Campaigns: Key focus on two: ‘Light Up**
**for Mito’ during World Mito Week. Many**
**more UK buildings lit up. ‘Project 1000**
**Strong’ launched in May, majorly**
**increasing regular donations. Both also**
**building stronger foundations for future**
**growth.**
**Events**
**We achieved six key events –**
•
**The Energy Ball (April)**
•
**Yorkshire Three Peaks (May)**
•
**Glow Walk during World Mito Week**
**(September)**
•
**My Mito Meet Up (October)**|
|•|**Art Sale (November)**|
|---|---|
|•|**Santa Dash (December)**|
|**…**|**significantly raising our profile and reach**|
|**to new demographics.**||
|**Partnership Building**||
|•|**Rotary – Attended regional conference,**|
||**made further talks, one mission adopted**|
||**by local Club.**|
|•|**Corporate – Using our new trustee’s skills**|
||**to develop improved ways to engage with**|
||**business.**|
|•|**Other mito organisations – increased**|
||**liaison with The Lily Foundation, exploring**|
||**synergies with MitoWorld and planning**|
||**for new awareness event in Glasgow.**|
|**Support**||
|•|**My Mito Meet Up: Third successful**|
||**support weekend for missionees with**|
||**grant support of £18.45k from the**|
||**National Lottery Community Fund. 70**|
||**impacted people benefited.**|
|•|**Counselling: Successful pilot with £2.5k**|
||**grant funding. Highlighted a desperate**|
||**need for this to be expanded to all**|
||**missionees and ultimately the wider mito**|
||**community. Plans focused for evolving**|
||**this vital service in 2025.**|
|•|**Missions: 10 new missions joined us,**|
||**making a total of 37 impacted families**|
||**and individuals benefiting from our close**|
||**support, empowerment and ability to**|
||**educate those around them.**|
|•|**Medical Alert Wristbands: Project well**|
||**underway and set to be fully launched in**|
||**2025 providing free wristbands available**|
||**to everyone with mito.**|
|**Research**||
|**We awarded £50k (designated in 2023) to**||
|**three research projects through the Lily**||
|**Foundation, with the apportion to each**||
|**project determined by our missions.**||
|**We continue to advocate for more**||
|**mitochondrial research through building**||
|**partnerships with research bodies, bioscience**||
|**companies, pharmaceutical organisations and**||
|**other advocacy and patient organisations,**||
|**including:**||
|•|**National Institute for Health and Care**|
||**Research**|
|•|**The Lily Foundation**|
|•|**Aspire Biosciences**|
|•|**MitoWorld**|
|•|**The Leigh Network**|
|---|---|
|•|**University College London**|
|•|**University of Glasgow**|
|•|**Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research**|
|•|**International MITO Patients**|
|**General**||
|•|**Continued financial growth in a**|
||**challenging economic climate**|
|•|**Grants secured from the National Lottery**|
||**Community Fund (£18.5k) and St James**|
||**Place (£2.5k).**|
|•|**Ability strengthened to submit greater**|
||**volume of applications in the future by**|
||**improving the systems and identifying**|
||**volunteers and paid support.**|
|•|**Second member of staff joined us in early**|
||**February on a 6 months contract,**|
||**subsequently made permanent.**|
|•|**Committed to be a living wage employer.**|
|•|**New CRM, accounting systems and Team**|
||**collaboration platform introduced and**|
||**integrated into normal working practices.**|
|•|**Office upgraded to better accommodate**|
||**more staff and volunteers comfortably**|
||**within our main office space.**|
||**Volunteer highlights:**|
|•|**Two volunteers credited their experience**|
||**with us as instrumental in securing new**|
||**positions.**|
|•|**A volunteer increased from one to two**|
||**days, feeling supported with adjustments**|
||**made to accommodate their visual and**|
||**hearing impairments.**|
|•|**The new charity assistant role enabled a**|
||**regular volunteer and missionee to evolve**|
||**their role to include more web editing and**|
||**building, boosting their skills and job**|
||**satisfaction.**|
|**The**|**difference our work has made…**|
|**Awareness:**||
|**Awareness of the illness has been raised**||
|**amongst thousands of people, reducing the**||
|**isolation felt by those impacted. Thousands**||
|**also became aware of the far-reaching**||
|**importance of mito research and its benefits**||
|**and**|**implications to millions.**|
|**Support:**||
|**Support we funded increased a sense of**||
|**community and belonging, improved mental**||
|**health, peer support and practical help and**||
|**information to our beneficiaries.**||
**Research: Through expanding our research work to encompass forging partnerships, advocacy and lobbying we are able to inspire mitochondrial research and awareness of its importance. Our award to The Lily Foundation enabled an additional project to be funded through their 2023/24 research call than would have otherwise happened. Through their involvement in both fundraising and decision-making, our research awards empowered our missionees, in knowing they make a positive difference.**
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We ended 2024 with £38,652.34 in the bank.**
**Our reserves are 10k and we have designated**
**£20k to cover the costs for our Meet Up event**
**in October. Should we secure the funding for**
**the Meet Up, it will be redesignated to one of**
**the many projects we wish to pursue.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**According to policy, reserves were reviewed in**
**May 2024 and increased to £10k which**
**equates to approximately 12 weeks’ worth of**
**unrestricted expenditure.**|
|||**This will help My Mito Mission to withstand a**
**number of scenarios including a sustained**
**increase in inflation combined with a fall in**
**income, to provide the capability for trustees**
**to then make sure expenditure could be**
**reduced in a managed fashion, avoiding the**
**need to halt important work abruptly and**
**cover staffing costs. My Mito Mission has very**
**few recurring ongoing costs over and above**
**staffing, with levels of expenditure**
**determined by income banked through**
**previous fundraising. All reserves over and**
**above this retained amount are designated to**
**charitable activities.**|
|---|---|---|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30k**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our principal source of funding remains**
**publicly raised donations and fundraising. This**
**is either through our own, our missions’ or our**
**supporter’s efforts.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Our Business Plan identifies several principle**
**risk areas to mitigate as far as possible:**
•
**Inability to keep pace with continual**
**growth.**
•
**Reliance on our Chair’s voluntary full-time**
**CEO role.**
•
**Outgrowing our donated office space.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Trust**|
|---|---|---|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointed by resolution of the existing**
**Trustees at a Special Meeting**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational Para 1.51 structure and any wider network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|MyMito Mission|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|1176616|
|Charity’s principal address|Registered Address:
44d Long Ridge, Brighouse, HD6 3RZ
Office Address:
c/o KT Hydraulics, Gannex Park, Dewsbury Road, Elland, HX5 9AF|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**No.**|**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**1**|**Christopher Appleby**||||
|**2**|**Christine Beal**|**Chair**|||
|**3**|**Amanda Caldwell**||||
|**4**|**Bethany Ellis**|**Treasurer**|||
|**5**|**Dr Martin Haigh MBE**||**15th July 2024**||
|**6**|**Francesca Sevilla-**
**Rebelderia**||||
|**7**|||||
**8**
Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
||||
||||
||||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Full name(s)**|Christine Beal|Beth Ellis|
|**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**|Chair|Treasurer|
**Date**