Charity registration number: 1190883
**MIND OVER MOUNTAINS TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025**
**Mind Over Mountains Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|Trustees' Report|2 - 6|
|Independent Examiner's Report|7|
|Statement of Financial Activities|8|
|Statement of Financial Position|9|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|10 - 18|
**Mind Over Mountains Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
|**Trustees**|Ms K Smith||
|---|---|---|
||Mr W Howarth||
||Mr A Staniforth||
||Mr G Thurston||
||Mrs C White|(resigned Chair 03/04/2025)|
||Mr J Whitehead|(appointed Chair 31/5/2025)|
||Miss O D'Silva|(appointed 01/01/2025)|
||Mr N Norris|(appointed 01/01/2025)|
||Ms C Jeffreys|(appointed 01/01/2025)|
||Mr G Pratt|(appointed 01/01/2025)|
||Mr A Aderibigbe||
||Ms C Houghton||
|**CEO**|Ian Sansbury|(resigned 16/10/2025)|
||Ian Boyd|(appointed 16/10/2025)|
|**Charity Number**|1190883||
|**Principal Address**|32 High Street||
||Wendover||
||HP22 6EA||
|**Independent Examiner**|Tim de Borde FCA||
||32 High Street||
||Wendover||
||HP22 6EA||
|**Bankers**|NatWest||
||10 Elephant Yard||
||Kendal||
||Cumbria||
||LA9 4LZ||
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**Mind Over Mountains**
**Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Governing Document**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 17 August 2020 and is governed by a constitution.
## **Trustee Selection Methods**
The trustees of the charity are recruited following open advertising and appointed by the trustees at a duly convened meeting. All trustees are appointed for a three-year term renewable to a maximum of nine years.
## **Aims and Objectives**
## **The charity's objects**
The relief of persons suffering with mental health issues, in particular by the provision of counselling and mindfulness activities, including accredited activities and support in outdoor environments.
## **Purpose**
Mind Over Mountains is an ambitious and innovative mental health charity that enables people to thrive through therapeutic outdoor experiences.
We enable people to restore and sustain their mental health and wellbeing through a highly integrated practice that brings together walking in nature, mindfulness, and professional coaching and counselling.
## **Vision**
Our vision is for the UK to be a nation in which everyone recognises the power of therapeutic outdoor experiences in restoring and maintaining good mental health and well-being. We want nature- and activitybased mental health interventions to be the norm, commissioned and prescribed by the NHS, and accessible to all.
Our intention is for Mind Over Mountains to play a leading role in achieving that change, delivering our own outstanding and highly accessible programmes at scale across the UK, but also working in partnership to demonstrate and advocate for the benefits of nature-based therapies.
## **Values**
We are:
**Compassionate** : We offer compassion unconditionally, to all people and to our environment. We are active advocates for nature.
**Empowering** : We enable people to find their own path to wellbeing. We never seek to impose our own perspectives or beliefs, and we seek to include everyone.
**Adventurous** : Adventure is in our nature. We meet people where they are on their journey and seek to support them into adventures appropriate to their own needs and abilities.
**Committed** : We are committed to making a positive and lasting impact on society. We seek the ambitious legacy of better mental health for all.
**Evidence-Based** : We are committed to evaluating and demonstrating what works - and equally what doesn't.
**Collaborative** : We know that we can deliver change and impact better in partnership than on our own.
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**Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Mind Over Mountains**
## **Public Benefit Statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities, the trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of health or the saving of lives. The charity is committed to ensuring that the programmes it delivers:
- Improve the mental health and wellbeing of anyone who feels in need of support, particularly those who are unable to obtain such support elsewhere.
- Reduce dependency on other forms of support by improving resilience.
- Help transform the lives of individuals through promoting not only mental wellbeing but also enjoyment of our outdoor spaces and hence physical wellbeing.
The charity publishes its impact data annually, demonstrating clearly the mental health and wellbeing outcomes from our work. In our 2024 annual survey, nine out of ten of our participants reported a lasting mental health benefit from our events and our net promoter score was an outstanding +82. Our programmes deliver statistically significant improvements in wellbeing, measured by the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales. They also deliver nature and human connection and increased propensity to participate in physical activity, all of which are drivers of sustained improvements in mental health.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The year ended 31st May 2025 has been one of significant growth and development across all areas of the charity’s activity. That growth in our events, participants and income enabled the charity to deliver a surplus of £51,162 on income of £399,550 (up 65% on the year ended 31st May 2024).
During the year, we delivered 41 events (up 46% from 28 in the previous year), for 423 participants (up 36% from 312):
## **Open Retreats and Wellbeing Walks**
- 22 open wellbeing walks attended by 154 participants. During the past year, we have grown our open wellbeing walks programme to include the Lake District, Peak District, Wales, the Chilterns and the North York Moors, working with social prescribers and local mental health charities to ensure that we are reaching the people who most need our support. We are continuing to deliver these highly impactful and accessible walks at no charge to participants. This is thanks to the generous support of a number of funders, including the National Lottery, Cumbria Community Foundation, Chapman Charitable Trust, King Cullimore Charitable Trust, the Clare Foundation and the Nineveh Trust.
- 5 open retreats, two in North Wales, one in Dartmoor, one in the Peak District and one in the Lake District, attended by 67 participants, of which 46 were bursary places. We continue to be deeply grateful to Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust for their generous funding of our bursary programme, which enables those on low incomes to attend these transformational programmes.
## **Commissioned Retreats and Wellbeing Walks**
- Two retreats for Cambridgeshire Constabulary in Eryri, attended by 26 participants.
- A retreat for the College of Paramedics in Eryri, attended by 12 participants. We continue to deliver two retreats per calendar year for the College – but due to the timing of events within the year, 3 were reported in 2023/24 and only 1 in 2024/25.
- Four commissioned walks for Welsh Ambulance Service and Myton Hospices, attended by 21 participants.
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**Mind Over Mountains**
**Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Achievements and Performance - Continued**
## **Wellbeing Challenge Walks**
2024/25 has seen us grow and develop our wellbeing challenge walk programme, delivered alongside our corporate partners in support of their employees. This innovative mix of wellbeing and fundraising aligns well with the Five Ways to Wellbeing and is proving a really important and popular part of our delivery. In the year, we supported 143 participants across 7 programmes:
- A London Thames Path wellbeing challenge for Samsung, attended by 35 participants.
- A Yorkshire 3 Peaks and London Royal Parks wellbeing challenge for Bupa, attended by 47 participants.
- A Surrey 3 Peaks and London Royal Parks wellbeing challenge for Inghams, attended by 37 participants.
- Two open ‘Step Out Challenge’ wellbeing challenges, covering the Yorkshire 3 Peaks and White Peak in the Peak District, attended by 18 and 6 participants respectively.
## **3 Year Strategy**
The charity is now around halfway through the three-year strategy published in its Strategy & Impact Report early in 2024, and which is available on our website. Progress against the strategy is as follows:
**1. Continuing to grow our public and commissioned programmes:** expanding our geographical areas of activity and delivering our programmes to an increasing number of organisations, across blue light emergency services and the NHS.
- We have grown from two open wellbeing walk regions in 2023 to four in 2024, now delivering five wellbeing walks per year across the Lake District, Peak District, Wales and the Chilterns. In addition, with the support of Forestry England, we’ve been able to start delivering walks in the North York Moors in 2025.
- We delivered 5 open retreats in 2024 and we’ll be delivering 6 in 2025, with the addition of our new retreat at Helmsley in the North York Moors.
- We continue to work hard to secure further commissioned work, particularly from blue light emergency services. Progress was slow in the year, in a challenging public sector funding environment but new commissioned work is in place for the second half of 2025 and 2026. We were delighted to be runners up, for our work in partnership with Cambridgeshire Police, in the Oscar Kilo Awards – and we hope that that recognition will help to drive further partnership opportunities.
**2. Working hard to reach those who most need our support:** through referrals by social prescribers and other local agencies, reaching underrepresented groups, encouraging more men to participate in our events and piloting programmes for university students.
- Social prescribers are becoming an increasingly important part of efforts to ensure that we are reaching those who most need our help and support. We estimate that around a quarter of our participants now find us through referral by a social prescriber or another mental health charity and we are working hard to increase that percentage. We were helped significantly in this respect late in the year when we received a generous grant from the David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust which has enabled us to recruit Regional Partnerships Leads in each of our four key regions: Wales, the North, the Midlands and South East England.
- We have worked hard to develop programmes to engage underrepresented groups, to encourage more men and younger people to attend our programmes. This was always likely to be a slower part of our three year strategy but we have a number of new programmes that will deliver in 2025/26, including dedicated walks for men and young people, a programme of resources for universities and knowledge sharing programmes with BAME, LGBT and disability walking groups and their leaders.
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**Mind Over Mountains**
**Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **3 Year Strategy (continued)**
**3. Improving access to our programmes and to the outdoors:** by breaking down the barriers to participation (which include time, fitness, location, transport and equipment).
- The key element of this part of our strategy is financial – in continuing to ensure that our wellbeing walks are free and that our residential retreats are supported by a generous bursary programme. We are incredibly grateful to the charitable trusts and foundations that have made this possible.
- We have also worked hard to differentiate more clearly the level of challenge in our programmes and to communicate that difference more clearly. We have also worked to develop programmes of shorter and more accessible introductory walks in the Lake District and the North York Moors.
- We are also working to make a significant proportion of our events more explicitly accessible via public transport and to communicate them as such. We have trialled the use of minibuses to support participant access but are moving towards transport bursaries instead.
- We continue to seek equipment sponsorships with outdoor brands.
- We have made some progress in recruiting inclusively and in developing the diversity of our coaches, counsellors and walk leaders.
## **4. Sustaining our impact: by moving our focus from individual events to programmes.**
- We were delighted this year to develop a series of impactful follow-on resources. In partnership with the Youth Hostel Association’s Outdoor Citizen’s Programme and Natural England, all of our retreat and walk participants have the option to sign up to a year’s worth of emailed resources containing hints and tips to sustain their mental health using nature, walking and mindfulness.
- We are continuing to explore the opportunity to fund and provide follow-on coaching and counselling sessions for participants.
**5. Demonstrating impact and driving systemic change:** continuing to demonstrate what works (and what doesn’t) and working with academic and charity partners to articulate and campaign for change in mental health provision in the UK.
- We published our Evidence Base Review towards the end of the year, in partnership with the University of Lancashire. The review presents the very substantial academic and clinical evidence for the various components of our practice: nature, physical activity, human connection, mindfulness, coaching and counselling.
- Our use of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales (WEMWBS) is now well embedded in our processes and yielding some incredibly encouraging results. In 2024, our retreats delivered an average improvement in wellbeing scores of around 9.5 points and our walks around a 6.5 point increase. Participants report that our programmes have enabled them to connect to nature, to other people and encouraged them towards more physical activity (all good predictors of sustained improvements in mental health). Around three quarters report learning tools and strategies that they believe will help them to sustain their wellbeing in the future.
- We delivered the third NatureMind Summit, again in partnership with the University of Lancashire. This conference has become a leading gathering of providers, practitioners, academics and commissioners in the field of Green Social Prescribing and a great opportunity to convene and help lead this critically important sector.
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## **Mind Over Mountains**
## **Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **3 Year Strategy (continued)**
**6. Sustaining and growing the core:** enabling the charity to grow successfully and sustainably through effective fundraising and judicious investment in our people and systems.
- Many of the goals here, though unexciting in comparison to other elements, are foundational to the charity’s growth and development and we have made significant progress in their delivery.
- We have continued to grow and develop our fundraising capabilities, from trust fundraising for our programme delivery to corporate and individual support for our core functions.
- We have completed our website development and enhancement of our booking process and user experience. Although this work is never entirely complete, our website is now an important component of how positively we are viewed by participants and stakeholders alike.
- We have successfully delivered our new CRM system, using Beacon, and upgraded our financial accounting software to Xero.
- We have continued to develop our volunteer strategy and now have a significant number of outstanding volunteers, supporting both our programmes and core functions.
## **Financial Review**
The charity’s income of £399,550 was £157,144 (65%) higher than the previous year and £61,537 above the budget set for the year.
This was driven by a £183,787 increase in donations (particularly grants from charitable trusts and foundations, corporate donations and sponsored fundraising challenges by our supporters). This was partially offset by £28,397 less income from activities (primarily our income from commissioned programmes and income from open participants) was lower, partly due to the timing of our retreats with the College of Paramedics, one fewer commissioned event in the year and an increase in the number of open retreat bursary participants.
Total expenditure of £348,388 was £132,474 (61%) up on the previous year but just £30,119 above budget, as we invested in expanding our core teams to deliver the increased activity of the charity.
The trustees are pleased to report a £51,162 surplus, £24,670 above last year and £31,418 above the budget set for the year.
## **Reserves Policy**
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year-end were £74,924.
The trustees continue to affirm the reserves policy agreed in March 2023, to maintain a level of unrestricted reserves equivalent to between two and four months of budgeted operating expenditure. At the year end, the charity’s unrestricted reserves represented 2.8 months of budgeted operating costs, in line with this policy. As part of our sustainable growth, the charity aims to build its level of unrestricted reserves in line with its growth ratio, ensuring a prudent balance between financial resilience and delivery impact. As our programmes and reach expand, the level required to maintain this ratio naturally increases, and we continue to seek additional unrestricted support to strengthen our core capacity and maintain stability.
The trustees have reassessed the charity’s ability to continue for at least 12 months from the date that the accounts are approved and conclude that no material uncertainties exist that cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Mr W Howarth Trustee 10[th] November 2025
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**Mind Over Mountains Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Mind Over Mountains for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Mind Over Mountains (the Trust) for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation 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**
Since the Trust’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Tim de Borde FCA Independent Examiner Date 10 November 2025
32 High Street Wendover HP22 6EA
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**Mind Over Mountains Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Charitable activities:
Income from Activities
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities:
**7**
Charitable Activity
NET INCOME
Transfers between funds
**17**
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
**17**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
316,125
47,184
1,084
1,132|
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
34,025
-
-
-|**2025**
**Total funds**
**£**
350,150
47,184
1,084
1,132|**2024**
**Total funds**
**£**
166,363
75,581
-
462|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||365,525|
34,025|
399,550|
242,406|
||(323,721)|
(24,667)|
(348,388)|
(215,914)|
||41,804
-|
9,358
-|
51,162
-|
26,492
-|
||41,804
33,120|
9,358
12,720|
51,162
45,840|
26,492
19,348|
||74,924|
22,078|
97,002|
45,840|
The notes on pages 10 to 18 form part of these financial statements.
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**Mind Over Mountains Statement of Financial Position For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
**13**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
**14**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due**
**Within One Year**
**15**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**(LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
TOTAL FUNDS
**17**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
-|
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-|**Total funds**
**£**
-|**Total funds**
**£**
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||14,934
92,519|
-
50,419|
14,934
142,938|
17,230
57,006|
||107,453
**(32,529)**|
50,419
**(28,341)**|
157,872
**(60,870)**|
74,236
**(28,396)**|
||**74,924**|
**22,078**|
**97,002**|
**45,840**|
||**74,924**|
**22,078**|
**97,002**|
**45,840**|
||**74,924**|
**22,078**|
**97,002**|
**45,840**|
||||22,078
74,924|
12,720
33,120|
||||97,002|
45,840|
On behalf of the board
Mr W Howarth Trustee 10[th] November 2025
The notes on pages 10 to 18 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **1. General Information**
Mind Over Mountains is a charitable incorporated organisation registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 1190883. The principal address is 32 High Street, Wendover, HP22 6EA.
## **2. Accounting Policies**
## **2.1. Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "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) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Charities Act 2011.
The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## **2.2. Going Concern Disclosure**
The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **2.3. Fund Accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
## **2.4. Incoming Resources**
All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, if it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **2.5. Resources Expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
## **2.6. Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets costing more than £100 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows:
Plant & Machinery - Over 3 years
## **2.7. Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## **2.8. Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **2.9. Pensions**
The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **2.10. Grants and Donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.
## **3. Income from Donations and Legacies**
|Donations and gifts
Grants
Donations and gifts
Grants|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
279,125
37,000
316,125
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
89,326
45,507
134,833|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
34,025
34,025
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
31,530
31,530|**2025 Total**
**Funds**
**£**
279,125
71,025|
|---|---|---|---|
||||
350,150|
||||**2024 Total**
**Funds**
**£**
89,326
77,037|
||||
166,363|
The following grants are included within the total income from donations and legacies above:
|The Waterloo Foundation
Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust
David & Ruth Family Charitable Trust
The Clare Foundation
Nineveh Trust
The National lottery
Buckinghamshire Community Foundation
Chapman Charitable Trust
YHA England & Wales|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
20,000
10,000
-
7,000
-
-
-
-
-
37,000|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-
2,025
-
2,500
20,000
7,000
2,000
500
34,025|**2025 Total**
**Funds**
**£**
20,000
10,000
2,025
7,000
2,500
20,000
7,000
2,000
500|
|---|---|---|---|
||||
71,025|
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
Big Give Trust
12,507
-
The Stockwell / Cliffe Charitable Trust
2,000
-
The Roger And Jean Jefcoate Trust
6,000
-
The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust
5,000
-
The Waterloo Foundation
20,000
-
Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust
-
10,000
Friends of the Lake District
-
3,680
St. James's Place Charitable Foundation
-
2,500
Derbyshire Mind
-
5,000
Outdoor Citizens
-
2,400
Cumbria Community Foundation
-
4,950
Alpkit Foundation
-
500
Foundation Derbyshire - Jane Gerard-Pearse
-
2,500
45,507
31,530
**4.** **Income from Other Trading Activities**
**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Income from Merchandise
1,084
**5.** **Investment Income**
**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Bank interest receivable
1,132
**6.** **Net Income/(Expenditure)**
The net income is stated after charging/(crediting):
**2025**
**£**
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets - owned
-
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets - finance leases and hire purchase contracts
-|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
12,507
2,000
6,000
5,000
20,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
10,000
3,680
2,500
5,000
2,400
4,950
500
2,500|**2024 Total**
**Funds**
**£**
12,507
2,000
6,000
5,000
20,000
10,000
3,680
2,500
5,000
2,400
4,950
500
2,500
77,037
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**|**2024 Total**
**Funds**
**£**
12,507
2,000
6,000
5,000
20,000
10,000
3,680
2,500
5,000
2,400
4,950
500
2,500
77,037
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||45,507||
31,530|||
|||||||
|||||
-||
|||||**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**||
||||||462|
||||||**2024**
**£**
15
68|
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**Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **7. Analysis of Expenditure**
|Charitable Activity
Charitable Activity
**.** **Support Costs**
Employee costs:
Wages and salaries
Employers NI
Employers pensions - defined benefits scheme
Staff training
Core team subcontractor costs
Travel expenses
General administration:
Computer software, consumables and maintenance
Insurance
Postage
Advertising and marketing costs
Telecommunications and data costs
Fundraising – Staging Events
Legal fees
Subscriptions
Fundraising and Merchandise Costs
Payroll fees
Bank charges
Other Office Costs
Depreciation
Sundry expenses
Governance costs:
Independent examiner's fees
Accountancy fees|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**||**Support costs**
(see note 8)
**£**|
**2025**
**Total**
**£**
348,388
**2024**
**Total**
**£**
215,914
**2024**
**Charitable**
**Activity**
**£**
77,789
3,116
2,334
180
47,706
2,272
634
1,159
-
4,602
-
-
-
1,612
4,491
384
69
604
83
-
960
-
147,995|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||108,871||
239,517||
||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**||**Support**
**costs**
(see note 8)
**£**
147,995
**2025**
**Charitable**
**Activity**
**£**
99,913
4,845
2,540
750
93,758
3,573
6,421
1,425
383
2,870
251
12,479
2,400
1,025
1,028
478
883
-
-
607
1,728
2,160
239,517||
||67,919||||
||||||
## **8. Support Costs**
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **9. Independent Examiner's Remuneration**
|Independent examination of the financial statements
Other financial services|**2025**
**£**
1,728
2,160
3,888|**2024**
**£**
960
-|
|---|---|---|
|||960|
## **10. Staff Costs**
Staff costs were as follows:
|Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs (defined contribution)|**2025**
**£**
99,913
4,845
2,540
107,298|**2024**
**£**
77,789
3,116
2,334|
|---|---|---|
|||
83,239|
No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000.
## **11. Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: 3 (2024: 2)
## **12. Comparatives for the statement of financial activities**
|**2. Comparatives for the statement of financial activities**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Charitable activities:
Income from Activities
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities:
**7**
Charitable Activity
**NET INCOME**
Transfers between funds
**17**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
**17**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
134,833
75,581
462|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
31,530
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
166,363
75,581
462|
||210,876|
31,530|
242,406|
||
(198,101)|
(17,813)|
(215,914)|
||12,775
11,648|
13,717
(11,648)|
26,492
-|
||24,423
8,697|
2,069
10,651|
26,492
19,348|
||33,120|
12,720|
45,840|
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**13.** **Tangible Assets**
**Cost**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Depreciation**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 May 2025
As at 1 June 2024
**14.** **Debtors**
**Due within one year**
Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
Other debtors
**15.** **Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Other creditors
Taxation and social security
Accruals and deferred income
**16.** **Deferred Income**
Deferred income movements in the year were as follows:
Balance at the start of the period
Income deferred in the current period
Amounts released in income from previous periods
Balance at the end of the period
Deferred income relates to event booking fees received in advance.||**2025**
**£**
4,881
7,702
2,351
14,934
**2025**
**£**
-
1,773
59,097
60,870
**2025**
**£**
11,030
46,248
(11,030)
46,248
|**Plant &**
**Machinery**
**£**
404
404
404
404
-
-
**2024**
**£**
-
17,230
-
17,230
**2024**
**£**
9,260
-
19,136
28,396
**2024**
**£**
21,460
11,030
(21,460)
11,030
|**Plant &**
**Machinery**
**£**
404|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||404|
|||||404
|
|||||404|
|||||-|
|||||-|
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **17. Movement in Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Active Cheshire
Friends of the Lake District
St James's Place Capital Fund
Derbyshire Mind
Cumbria Community Foundation
Alpkit Foundation
Foundation Derbyshire
Award 4 All Wales
Chapman Charitable Trust
King Cullimore Charitable Trust
Nineveh Trust
Outdoor Citizens - Keswick 2024
Regional Partnership Leads
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**As at 1 June**
**2024**
**£**
33,120
196
724
1,307
2,543
4,950
500
2,500
-
-
-
-
-
-
12,720
45,840|**Income**
**£**
365,525
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
20,000
2,000
7,000
2,500
500
2,025
34,025
399,550|**Expenditure**
**£**
(323,721)
-
(724)
(1,307)
(2,543)
(4,607)
(500)
(2,500)
(4,393)
(2,000)
(2,497)
(1,071)
(500)
(2,025)
|**As at 31**
**May 2025**
**£**
74,924
196
-
-
-
343
-
-
15,607
-
4,503
1,429
-
-
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||
(24,667)|22,078|
||||
|
|
||||
(348,388)|97,002|
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Active Cheshire
Friends of the Lake District
St James's Place Capital Fund
Derbyshire Mind
Cumbria Community Foundation
Alpkit Foundation
Foundation Derbyshire
Outdoor Citizens
Ramblers Holidays CT
Big Give
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**As at 1 June**
**2023**
**£**
8,697
916
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9,735
|**Income**
**£**
210,876
-
3,680
2,500
5,000
4,950
500
2,500
2,400
10,000
-
|**Expenditure**
**£**
(198,101)
-
(2,956)
-
(2,457)
-
-
-
(2,400)
(10,000)
-
|**Transfers**
**£**
11,648
(720)
-
(1,193)
-
-
-
-
-
-
(9,735)
|**As at 31**
**May 2024**
**£**
33,120
196
724
1,307
2,543
4,950
500
2,500
-
-
-
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||10,651
|
31,530
|
(17,813)
|
(11,648)
|
12,720
|
||19,348|
242,406|
(215,914)|-|
45,840|
## **Restricted Funds**
## **Fund Name**
Active Cheshire
Friends of Lake District
St Jame's Place Capital Fund
Derbyshire Mind Outdoor Citizens
Cumbria Community Foundation Alpkit Foundation Foundation Derbyshire Award 4 All Wales Chapman Charitable Trust King Cullimore Charitable Trust Nineveh Trust Regional Partnership Leads
## **Purpose of restriction**
To fund bursary places for people from Cheshire to attend our events.
Towards open wellbeing walks in the Lake District
Bursary places on retreats and walks. The transfer relates to funding activities provided by the charity.
Open wellbeing walks in the Peak District.
Towards email and video follow-on resources for retreat and walk participants.
Towards accessible wellbeing walks for communities in NW Cumbria.
Open wellbeing walks in the Lake District.
Open wellbeing walks in the Peak District.
Open wellbeing walks in Wales.
Open wellbeing walks generally.
Open wellbeing walks in the Chilterns.
Open wellbeing walks in the Lake District.
Funding for partnership leads in Wales, North, Midlands, South-East England.
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## **Mind Over Mountains Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) for the Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **18. Related Party Disclosures**
## **Remuneration and benefits received by key management personnel**
Key management personnel received compensation of £58,800 (2024: £64,737)
## **Trustee expenses**
During the year one trustee was paid a total of £624 in respect of travel (2024: £513).
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