2024-12-31-accounts

Year End Report 2024

Registered Charity No. 1196406

Introduction by deputy Chair, Anne Moore

Mental Health Motorbike has developed significantly throughout 2024. We are a free face to face and online Mental Health First Aid support charity and aim to support the wellbeing of the biker community. After a promise by our founder, Paul Oxborough, in response to the death by suicide of Dale Caffrey, a personal friend, in October 2019, becoming a charity in March 2020 and then being officially registered with the Charity Commission in November 2021, the charity has grown in every way over the last year.

Our Trustee board has grown, and this has ensured a wider range of skills, knowledge and expertise to support the charity’s governance.

We are very proud of the structure that we have created with our Trustees, Regional Coordinators and Area Coordinators; this provides a model which will enable us to continue our growth over the whole of the UK in the coming years. Plus, a new Social Media team was set up to ensure that awareness of our charity, our events and mental health issues are better promoted to a wider audience.

Mental Health First Aid Training continues, and the number of people trained and volunteers for the charity has grown and we will exceed our initial target of 1,000 Mental Health First Aiders trained before the end of 2025. We are an active presence in more areas of the country and the number of events has grown, which raises awareness and offers wider support.

The number of people joining the Mental Health Motorbike Peer Support Group continues to increase as awareness of the charity grows.

We continue to fundraise at a grass roots level.. Our structure of Regional and Area coordinators allows us to be at more in-person events, raising the awareness for the charity, but also increasing our non-restricted funding base. This enables us to continue offering Mental Health First Aid training as well as giving us the opportunity to spread our message further afield.

We acknowledge that such funding is more volatile and expect the coming years to be harder, but also for the need for our services to increase. In the future we will be looking for more Grant opportunities to provide some income stability.

It has taken over four years to get to this point but the need for the charity within the motorbiking community is very clear as more and more people are requesting support. Our volunteers are the foundations of the charity who give up their time to enable Mental Health Motorbike to run events, support online and support with training as well as the administration involved.

As a charity, our ultimate goal goes back to the promise by our founder, Paul Oxborough, to try and prevent other families going through the pain and grief caused by suicide. This never goes away as a single suicide leaves so many unanswered questions: could I, should I, what if... and there will never be a resolution to these questions. We aim to be there for people before they see suicide as the only and very final option.

This report will share some of our work, the impact, the challenges and the way we are making a difference. We will share our financial position in the hope you will then join us and get involved in supporting what is a trailblazing, original and lifesaving charity which we are proud to call Mental Health Motorbike.

Anne Moore Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees

The state of mental health

Common mental health conditions (CMHCs) remain widespread: around 22.6% of adults screened positive in 2023/24, with especially high levels in young adults; men’s rates are lower than women’s overall but still substantial.

Men still face the highest mortality risk from mental health conditions: in 2023 the male suicide rate rose to 17.4 per 100,000 (vs 5.7 for females), the highest since the late 1990s. Age-specific risk peaks for men aged 45–49 (25.5 per 100,000).

By contrast, survey-reported past-year suicidal thoughts have climbed in both sexes; among 16–74s they increased to 6.7% in 2023/24, with men at 7.1% and women at 6.3% on face-to-face measures. Past-year suicide attempts doubled to 1.0% overall, with similar point estimates for men and women. Lifetime self-harm (non-suicidal) reached 8.8% in men (vs 11.7% in women), with the steepest increases in younger age groups.

Help-seeking is a clear gap for men: after a suicide attempt, only 41.0% of men reported seeking any help (vs 59.1% of women). Economic strain matters too; unemployed and economically inactive adults report far higher lifetime suicidal thoughts/attempts/self-harm, with the employment–attempted-suicide link stronger for men.

Finally, among those with CMHC symptoms, men and women were similarly likely to receive treatment, but treatment coverage still lags need at population level—medication is more common than psychological therapy.

Males are 3 times more likely to die by suicide than females

Notes about data: Data source – Office for National Statistics (ONS). Suicide refers to deaths where the underlying cause is intentional self-harm and events of undetermined intent. Data represents suicide registrations. Increases/decreases are based on one year of data. These may not indicate longer term trends and may not be statistically significant. Overall rates for male, female and all persons are age standardised. Rates broken down by age group are crude.

Note about fluctuations shown in graphs: Smaller populations often produce rates that are less reliable, therefore differences in the number of suicides may have a bigger impact on the rate than in larger populations. The male and female suicide rates for Wales show a volatile pattern due to the relatively smaller number of deaths.

Our mission & objectives

Mental Health Motorbike is a free mental health first aid support charity for the biker community throughout the UK. We exist to create meaningful and purposeful opportunities, for all bikers, so that together we grow the wellbeing of the biker community. We do this through 1 to 1 and peer support, events, training activities and projects, working in partnership with other organisations and clubs.

We exist to:

Promote the wellbeing benefits of motorcycling

Provide a network of support for bikers, by bikers

Improve wellbeing within the motorcycling community

Our values

Maintenance & recovery

Looking after our bike and ourselves, keeps us running well

Integrity

Designed by bikers, for bikers

Being human

We are all as individual as the bikes we ride

Hope

We look forward to the journey and the road ahead

Connection

Bikes are the glue that hold us together

Strategy

Mental Health Peer Support group

The Mental Health Peer Support Group at Mental Health Motorbike serves as a vital resource for individuals navigating the challenges of mental health issues through community connection and sharing.

Mental Health First Aid training

By training people in Mental Health First Aid, we help create a greater understanding of mental health, and provide a toolkit to support people suffering from mental ill health.

Events

Being visible at as many events as possible helps create a wider brand awareness and recognition of our work.

Financial security

We work very hard to sell merchandise (which also improves our brand awareness) and deliver a large amount of presentations to clubs, retailers and other organisations which helps us maintain a healthy bank balance.

I probably wouldn’t be here without you. Definitely the best thing I did, joining this group Peer Support Group member, Jan 2023

Goals & ambitions

Governance and leadership

• Ensure the governance of the charity is fully compliant with Charity Commission requirements, regulations and legislation. Establish and maintain a well-informed, robust staffing structure to direct, govern, administer and deliver the charity’s goals.

Funding & Partnerships

• Secure delivery of the charity’s goals through a balanced mix of donations, grants, sponsorship and unique partnerships.

• Seek opportunities to work in partnership with interested parties to undertake research relevant to the community Mental Health Motorbike serves.

Services & Delivery

• Clearly define the services offered by Mental Health Motorbike to provide clarity for stakeholders and beneficiaries.

• Continue to train Mental Health First Aiders and deliver refresher programmes.

• Expand national coverage by investing in and building a network of volunteer coordinators.

Awareness & Influence

• Increase awareness and reach of the charity with the public, industry, partners and other stakeholders.

• Increase the value of the charity in the eyes of others to secure wider invitations to events

Evidence & Impact

• Collect and analyse data to evidence the impact of the charity’s activities and support future development.

Progress & impact

Social media milestones

Our reach on Facebook (people that saw any of our content) was 328.8k in 2024, an increase of 176.9% from 2024

People interacted with our Facebook posts 32.9k times (commenting, reacting/liking, or sharing), an increase of 144.1% from 2023

On Instagram, our reach (people that saw any of our content) was 13.4k in 2024, an increase of 293% from 2023

Peer Support Group milestones

3463 members of peer support group at end of 2024

Average of 12 posts per day by end of the year

Events and other milestones

We attended 216 events around the country in 2024

302 Mental Health First Aiders were trained during the year, bringing the total number of MHFA’s trained during 2023 and 2024 to 743. all made possible by the subsidy provided by Mental Health Motorbike, which made the courses affordable for so many

14 new Regional Coordinators were appointed

The Area Coordinator role was expanded to support the structure and 2 Area Coordinators were appointed

2 new trustees were appointed in April 2024 bringing the total to 6.

In July 2024 the Trustees held a strategy day hosted by the SMP Alliance where our ongoing strategy was discussed

An interactive map was introduced showing where coordinators, trustees and other roles are situated geographically

’ Welsh MHFA set up with the assistance of a grant received from the People s lottery in December 2023

73 Welsh MHFA were trained

1 Welsh Regional Coordinator was appointed

Financial summary

Income summary

Expenditure summary

Testimonials

You are doing brilliant things and helping so many people day to day. I am glad I found you

This bear was donated by Michelle Gardner, in remembrance of Kibi Wade and to thank Mental Health Motorbike for the help and support the charity gave their family after Kibi very sadly took her own life in 2024

Thank you for the amazing job you are doing

What you have created and achieved with the charity is incredible and inspiring. I am very proud to be part of the team

When I first volunteered with you, many people approaching the stand were not previously aware of MHMb. Two years later it is now widely recognised within the biking community.

You should be very proud of what has been achieved. It would not have happened without your dedication to the cause, and it is a wonderful testament to Dale.”

12 months ago, I was in a bad place, loss of a baby at 22 weeks through my partners pregnancy, then stress breakdown Xmas time when she split up with me. I was 16 1⁄2 because of stress and now 12 stone and loving life! Thank you all for the assistance when I needed it most!

Truly a wonderful community and somewhere where I feel safe to express myself

There are good people on here that will offer help

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of Mentsl Heamh Motorbike On accounts forthe period ended 31 D￿rnber 2024 Charity no 1196406 Set out on pages 1 to 5 (One to Five) including this report I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above tharity 1.the Trust") for the peri¢)d ended 31 December 2024. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Art 2011 ("the Act.). I report in respect of my examinakn'on of the Trust's accounts carried OLrt under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in Carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ibl of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection wrth the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect= the accounting records were not kept in a¢Gordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records.. or the accounts did not comply ￿￿th the applicable requirements concerning the fomi and content of accounts set oul in the Charities (Accounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that Ihe accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Da￿en wa￿en Date: 2910912025 Name: Darren Warren - Paxlon Independent Examiners Relevant professional qualificationls) or body {if any): FMAAT Address: 61a High Street South Rushden Northants. NN10 ORA Pagel of5

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlighl material matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of chanty accounts.. directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. Page2of5

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Paxton CommlssAon SOFA DetAlls Report Charih. llo. 1196406 .MeDtal Health Mot01￿]ke D¢¢ember2024 Last Year Sol Donations atd legacies Donations receii.ed PayPai dot]ations Regulsr donations ICh]brJght) Online donation5 (Other) 24.623 9.765 6.173 3J34 5(M) 11014 16 9.765 6.173 3.334 500 12.014 16 7.717 20.533 290 1.142 Cash donatioDS kn ei-ellt5 Cash donatioDS kn cashtills 5.725 Gift claillThl Grnts receii-ed 545 545 2.300 21.000 56970 2.300 59270 73.922 S02 Charitable actiNities (ll￿.) Sales Sa1¢3 or m¢rchaDdLSiDg 452 I7.￿)8 452 17.908 909 10.882 765 15.380 Fees rec forMFtFA training 1&5L 300 24.087 35.851 3LM) 30.151 41.524 S03 Other tsadillg actiiiti¢$ Fund￿lsi￿g JncoItLC Spon80diip 9.962 32 180 1.200 9.SY4 9.994 1.380 S04 lttirstmtnts Int¢r¢str¢¢¢iv 850 856 509 850 856 509 S08 Raising fi]0 Fwthising c￿ts bership Pl2rforn F¢ Goods for res21e Cost of m¢r¢haT￿lS¢ng for sai¢ Fees for sen.ices 5.954 5.954 1.79: 3.557 3.720 23.333 40.755 90 1.307 3.557 3.720 23J33 29.625 9203 16.333 55.071 11.130 07.981 11.130 79.111 82.004 S09 Charitable acliiitie 150 571 3.114 453 150 571 3.114 453 ehicle coyts TraiEI &yenses Subsistence costs 50 2.1?7 2251 25 265 LTtiiitie5 219 219 Page 4 (if 5

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