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Fresh Minds Education Ltd

  • Status

    Received: 12 days late

  • Income

    £253.4K

  • Spending

    £233.8K

Charity no. 108816 Company no. 672078 Date registered. 18/07/2022

Public benefits

The direct benefits flowing from Purpose 4.1.1 include: Improved self-care practice for individuals to fortify mental health An Increase in the number of people: Reaching out for help for mental distress and suicidal ideation Helping others in mental distress and suicidal ideation Children receiving mental and physical wellness methodologies,

techniques and strategies Children and families accessing therapeutic support for emotional health and wellbeing A reduction in children’s levels of worry and prolonged emotional distress Improved parental confidence in support a child experiencing poor mental health Increase in parents reaching out for professional support Reduction in the likely hood of children and young people developing of serious mental health conditions Improved educational outcomes for children and sibling and family relationships An increase high quality, innovative positive health resources, services and accessible to the public Reduction of demand on key public services for supporting child mental health From Purpose 4.1.2 include: Increase in the number of people trained to deliver suicide prevention awareness training An increase in understanding of: The complex reasons for suicide, role of mental health and emotions in preventing suicide, protective factors in suicide prevention, the importance of self-care in suicide prevention, How to connect people to safety People more likely to ask if someone is thinking of suicide, talk openly about feelings and emotions, support someone experiencing difficulties in their community An Increase in the number of schools, youth & community and educational organisations with training in a resilience curriculum for children and young people, teacher and educator confidence and ability in support children’s emotional health From Purpose 4.1.2 include: Increased opportunity to benefit more people through new activities and to work in collaboration with other aligned organisations The benefits identified are demonstrated through the charity's rigorous monitoring and evaluation procedures across all in person and online service delivery. Each of the charity’s interventions will have an associated outcome and impact metric that is clear and measurable. The data (quantitative & qualitative ) will use baseline and exits surveys, feedback forms and comment channels, Interviews and focus groups and where necessary the charity will use sector recognised evaluation tools. Where necessary, the charity will use independent evaluators to measure and assess the impact of a workstream. Where and when appropriate will also use UK government statistical reports to demonstrate impact benefits at a regional level. The charity will make these available in annual report featuring its benefits and impact. There is no known identifiable harm arising from the purposes of the charity. The charity’s beneficiaries are for the general public who include but is not limited to; children, young people and parents/carers. There are no identified private benefit flowing from any of the purposes.

What your organisation does

Fresh Minds Education supports people on their journey to wellness through innovative, evidence based trauma informed interventions. We specialise in creative approaches, resilience, self-care, trauma, mental health and suicide prevention. At the core of all our work is the AMBER approach, a curriculum for wellbeing & self-care; this approach

synthesises current evidence-based & applied grounded theory research from across the world in the fields of mental health, psychology and neuroscience. We have three flagship curriculums currently available throughout the UK, delivered through a trained network of partners and practitioners, our programmes are trauma Informed and ACE aware. We develop scalable, quality assured education meeting the needs of modern families, communities and classrooms and have a range of practical resources for use in the classroom and at home. We carry out our purpose by: Promoting an embedding the AMBER Approach as a model for resilience building for children and adults Developing and delivering Connections Link Life Suicide Awareness Curriculum in person and online to the public and offering professional facilitator training and support for individuals to deliver this training Developing & delivering creative resilience and wellbeing activities and curriculums for children, young people & parents in person and online Supporting teachers, educators, youth and community workers,, therapists and classroom professionals with wellbeing and resilience products, services and facilitator training Supporting children and families experiencing mental health difficulties with bespoke therapeutic intervention in person and online Supporting children and families experiencing bereavement with services and products in person and online Developing innovative ways to deliver key health & wellbeing messages using physical & screen-based media and digital technologies Proving self-care programmes and original bespoke wellness products

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Carers
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • Interface communities
  • Learning disabilities
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Arts
  • Counselling/support
  • Education/training
  • Research/evaluation

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

  • Due documents received late information

  • This charity failed to provide information on its finances within 10 months of its financial year end. This information has now been received.

Income

£253.4K

Spending

£233.8K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 July 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

4.1. The Charity’s Objects are specifically restricted to the following: 4.1.1. the advancement of health and saving of lives by the promotion, preservation, protection and safeguarding of mental and physical wellbeing of children, young people and adults and reducing the impact of trauma; 4.1.2. the advancement of education relating to health and wellbeing; and 4.1.3. such other exclusively charitable purpose according to the law of Northern Ireland as the Trustees may from time to time decide. Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with s.2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

Fresh Minds Education
  • 3 Trustees
  • 3 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Adam Wallace, Unit 5 Antrim Enterprise Agency, 58 Greystone Road, Antrim, BT41 1JZ

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Darren Fee
Mrs Amanda Mary Allenby
Mr Adam James Wallace

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland