HAPPY SPACE UK
Trustees’ Annual Report Financial year ended 1 February 2025 Charity number: 1183549
1. Objects and Activities
Happy Space UK (“Happy Space”) exists to preserve and protect the physical and mental health of the public by:
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providing informative education and advice;
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providing and assisting in the provision of facilities, support services and equipment not normally provided by statutory authorities;
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establishing and developing connections with mental wellbeing institutions and professionals;
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hosting and promoting wellbeing events; and
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conducting or commissioning research and publishing useful results.
Happy Space delivers these objectives primarily through the creation and distribution of wellbeing guidebooks and lesson plans for young people in key “transitional stages”, including primary-to-secondary, secondary-to-sixth form, and sixth form-to-university. The content is based on Happy Space’s five pillars of mental wellbeing: Mind, Food, Body, Finance, and the Arts.
Happy Space aims to reach students nationally, with a particular focus on children from lowincome, underserved or vulnerable backgrounds. To help evidence impact, students who receive guidebooks are given optional pre- and post-programme questionnaires to support evaluation, awareness and early-intervention goals. In particular, we aim to improve student awareness and recognition of low mood and provide various tools and techniques for preventing and managing it.
The Trustees confirm they have had due regard for the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in planning the charity’s activities for the year.
2. Achievements and Performance
2.1. General
The key activities and achievements of Happy Space during this reporting period are detailed below.
Happy Space collaborated with All Good Studios, who led a redesign of the Happy Space website to facilitate the accessibility of Happy Space guidebooks digitally. The learning materials are also being updated to allow for digital access and downloadability. Happy Space expects to distribute its digital offerings in the next reporting period.
As part of the review of its materials, Happy Space undertook a feedback project, including qualitative discussions with teachers, school leaders and staff, surveys and conversations with long-term partners and an internal evaluation of what had, and had not, worked in previous rollouts of Happy Space materials.
On 5 June 2024, Happy Space partnered with Feel Good Films to produce a new marketing and awareness video designed to tell the Happy Space story and clearly articulate what the charity does. Our aim is to use this content to support future fundraising and school engagement.
Happy Space has continued partnerships with schools, including Frensham Heights, where it delivered both Junior Guidebooks (for primary school age children) and Bobo’s Adventures storybooks (for nursery age children), alongside supporting lesson plans and workshop materials.
Through its work, Happy Space is distributing high quality preventative mental wellbeing information to students across the UK, enabling them to more conscientiously and effectively look after their own, and others, mental wellbeing.
2.2. General
For the year ended 1 February 2025, the primary financial activity of Happy Space was to generate cash flows to support the main charitable purpose of delivering wellbeing education to students and young adults. During this reporting period, Happy Space focused on ensuring that its materials for this purpose are best in class and accessible digitally.
As detailed below, £1,535.09 of cash flows generated were spent on printing and distributing guidebooks and Happy Space’s guidebook digitisation project as described above.
At year end, cash reserves were £38,665. £12,500 of these cash reserves are restricted, with £10,000 allocated to Happy Space’s “whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing” project, which will involve Happy Space delivering workshops and accompanying materials to state schools, and £2,500 allocated to staff costs. It is intended that the remainder of its cash reserves will be used in future to finalise the Happy Space guidebook digitisation project and support Happy Space hosting wellbeing events for students.
Both the executive and the Trustee board expect the organisation to operate for the foreseeable future, being 12 months minimum. Happy Space therefore continues as a going concern.
3. Financial Review
3.1. Income and expenditure
Total income for the year amounted to £18,762.77, comprising:
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Donations: £15,822.46
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Guidebook sales: £2,820.31
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Other income: £120.00
Total expenditure for the year was £3,028.46 comprising:
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Payroll costs: £480
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Guidebooks (including the digitisation project mentioned above): £1,535.09
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Administrative expenses: £883.37
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Other expenditure: £130
3.2. Financial Position
The organisation continues to maintain a positive financial position as at 1 February 2025, with cash funds of £38,665 at the year end. Happy Space uses cash accounting and therefore does not have any fixed assets or inventory and as such recognises no depreciation, amortisation or impairment. It has no current/non-current liabilities outstanding at the year end.
3.3 Reserves Policy
Happy Space has a simplistic reserves policy, which is dictated by the uncomplex nature of its operations. The charity is either i) granted funds or ii) engaged to sell guidebooks and host talks which covers the day-to-day graphic design and printing costs of the guidebook. For the current accounting period Happy Space has no full time paid employees and uses contractors on an “as needed” basis, leaving minimal operational costs. Fixed administrative costs are very low. During the financial year, £2,000 of unrestricted reserves were kept to ensure any unforeseen operational costs could be met, to safeguard the going concern status of the organisation without inefficiently restricting expenditure.
No changes to the reserves policy were made in the reporting year.
4. Structure, Governance and Management
Happy Space is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), governed by a constitution dated 23 May 2019, based on the Charity Commission’s model document.
The Trustee Board requires a breadth and depth of experience to carry out its duties effectively and efficiently. When recruiting new Trustees, it is crucial candidates are passionate and informed about mental wellbeing with relevant expertise (e.g., a mental health research background, or experience in parent mental wellbeing). The current Trustee Board endeavours to be clear about the commitment involved in being a Trustee, so that prospective candidates can determine whether they have the necessary capacity to serve. Happy Space is committed to diversity and is focused on ensuring its Trustee board reflects this.
5. Reference and Administrative Details
Charity Name: Happy Space UK Registered Charity Number: 1183549 Principal Office: 140 Cravells Road, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 1BQ
All Trustees gave their time freely, and no remuneration or expenses were paid in the year. In February 2024, as permitted by its constitution and in accordance with section 185 of the Charites Act 2011, Nader Dehdashti was remunerated for his services as Managing Director for one day a week for the month of January. This arrangement was terminated at the end of January 2024. As of the date of this approval of this report, the Trustee board comprises Judith Apps, Nader Dehdashti and James Fuggle.
Previous Trustees
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Kamran Dehdashti (resigned)
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Joshua Harris (resigned)
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Paul Crawford (resigned)
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Eleanor Hall (resigned)
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Vivienne Durham (resigned)
6. Approval
This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 30 November 2025.
Signed on behalf of the Board:
Nader Dehdashti
Trustee Date: 30 November 2025
Judith Apps
Truste¢ Dat¢: 30 Nov¢mb¢r 2025
Happy Space UK
1183549
Receipts and payments accounts For the period 02.02.24 To from
02.02.24 01.02.25 To
CC16a
Section A Receipts and payments
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| A1 Receipts Restrictedgrants Donations 15,822 Sale ofguidebooks 2,820 Events - Sale of electronicguidebooks - Other income 120 - - 18,763 - - Sub total - Total receipts 18,763 A3 Payments Payroll costs 480 Guidebooks 1,535 Administration expenses 883 Other / Misc 130 - - Sub total 3,028 - - Sub total - Total payments 3,028 Net of receipts/(payments) 15,734 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 10,431 Cash funds this year end 26,165 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 £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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- 15,822 2,820 - - 120 - - 18,763 |
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |
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| Date of approval |
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| Judith Apps | 30-Nov-25 |
Nader D&hdashli 30-Nov-25