Trustees’ Report and Accounts
for the period from 1[st] April 2023 to 31[st] March 2024
for
Gaming the Mind Registered charity no. 1186983
Date of approval: 22[nd] January 2025
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## Report of the Trustees
## for the Year Ended 31[st] March 2024
## 1. OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES AND PERFORMANCE
## **Objectives and activities**
Gaming the Mind’s purpose is the promotion of mental health among people who play video games or work in the video game industry.
During this financial year, we have again provided input to a number of public events and conferences aimed at people who play video games and/or work in the games industry. We have provided a range of inputs including staffing quiet spaces and booths, promoting mental health awareness, providing bespoke written resources on mental health, signposting to other sources of support and engaging in psychoeducation to increase awareness of mental illness and decrease stigma.
In terms of other mental health promotion activities, Gaming the Mind has continued to work with game developers and video game design students to advise on game content with the aim of furthering the charity’s aims, held journal clubs for mental health professionals and students, produced resources on mental health and gaming and engaged via media outlets to promote psychoeducation and mental wellbeing in the video games community. These activities were undertaken alongside Gaming the Mind creating and disseminating targeted and relevant content via social media, podcasts and its website to raise mental health awareness, decrease stigmatisation and increase support for the video games community.
Gaming the Mind has also donated video game hardware and software for therapeutic use by patients in a hospital setting.
## **Achievements and performance**
The charity has received positive verbal and written feedback from event attendees and consumers/recipients of the charity’s outputs, and has continued to grow its presence within the video games community and amongst professionals as a resource for those interested in mental wellbeing and/or wishing to learn about mental illness.
## **Explanation of finances, income and expenditure**
The charity has a current account and has continued to operate charity accounts with Amazon Smile, Paypal and Tiltify in order to facilitate and maximise fundraising via these commercial entities according to their written terms and conditions.
During the relevant financial period the charity received various donations as well as monies received from commercial partners in connection with Gaming the Mind engaging in charitable activities. Expenditure during the period was for costs associated with these activities, general running costs of the charity (e.g. website costs, printing costs and relevant insurance) and donated items.
## **Public benefit**
By carrying out our activities pursuant to our objectives the trustees consider that they have complied with the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers and duties to which the guidance is relevant.
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## **Trustees**
The six trustees in place at the end of the previous financial year (2022/2023) continued their roles into the next financial year.
## **Fundraising and future plans**
As in the previous year, to date Gaming the Mind’s fundraising has primarily been via collaborations with relevant organisations, however direct fundraising from the public has continued to grow year on year. As the charity’s profile continues to grow the trustees continues to review sources of fundraising and new opportunities.
Future plans for funds raised include:
- Creating further bespoke materials and resources aimed at those who make and play video games in order to promote education and awareness of mental illness and mental wellbeing;
- Expanding the provision of equipment to facilitate therapeutic gaming experiences to improve the mental health of those experiencing physical and/or mental ill-health;
- Ultimately employing a person to manage day-to-day charity matters including engaging with the public and industry.
## **Training**
All volunteers involved in the charity’s events and projects are provided with training relevant to their specific role and are supervised by one or more of the trustees. The trustees reassess the training and support needs of volunteers on an ongoing basis, taking into account feedback from volunteers and other stakeholders.
## 2. FINANCIAL REVIEW
The charity had a cash surplus for the year of £10,604. At the end of the financial period this is added to the surplus brought forward giving a figure to carry forward of £21,388 which is available for use to achieve the charity’s objectives. There are no issues with the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
No major events have occurred since the end of the reporting period.
## 3. STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Gaming the Mind is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and its governing document is its constitution dated 28[th] November 2019. During the financial year 2023/24 there were six trustees of Gaming the Mind, four of whom have been in position since the charity was founded on 17[th] December 2019.
## 4. REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS
## **Registered charity name/number (England & Wales):**
Gaming the Mind 1186983
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**Principal office:** Institute of Psychiatry PO63 16 DE CRESPIGNY PARK LONDON SE5 8AF
## **Trustees (as at 31[st] March 2024):**
Dr Atheeshaan Arumuham Dr Frances Debell Dr Stephen Kaar Dr Hamilton Morrin Dr Donald Servant Dr Marcus Tan
No trustees have ever held title to property belonging to the charity.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (FRS 102).
Approved by the board of trustees on 22[nd] January 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
Dr Frances Debell – Trustee
Dated: 22[nd] January 2025
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Accounts
## for the Year Ended 31[st] March 2024
||**Gaming the Mind**|**Gaming the Mind**|**Gaming the Mind**|**Gaming the Mind**|**Gaming the Mind**|**1186983**|**1186983**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2023||**To**||31/03/2024|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations/grants|**847**||**-**||**-**||**847**||**292**|
|Charitable activities|**13,800**||**-**||**-**||**13,800**||**11,509**|
|Other|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**|||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**14,647**||**-**||**-**||**14,647**||**11,801**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **|**14,647**||**-**||**-**||**14,647**||**11,801**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Charitable events costs|**1,597 **||**-**||**-**||**1,597 **||**1,235**|
|Items for charitable activities (console
donationetc.)|**1,896**||||||**1,896**|||
|Charityrunningcosts|**551 **||||||**551 **||**613**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**4,044**||**-**||**-**||**4,044**||**1,848**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total payments_ **|**4,044**||**-**||**-**||**4,044**||**1,848**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**10,604 **||**-**||**-**||**10,604 **||**9,953**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**10,784**||**-**||**-**||**10,784 **||**10,784**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**21,388**||**-**||**-**||**21,388**||**20,737**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Nat West Bank: Current Account||||**21,388**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**21,388**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of
approval|
||||||Dr Frances Debell||||22/01/2025|
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