Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE

The Mindfulness Initiative conducts research and educates leaders, policy makers, service commissioners and the public about the theory and practice of mindfulness and compassion training. It works with legislators around the world to help them make capacities of heart and mind serious considerations of public policy, and explore how mindfulness training may improve political discourse.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 6 years

themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk

info@mindfulnessinitiative.org.uk

07825067801

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/22	£151,189	£141,080	£10,109	2
31/12/21	£197,659	£191,061	£6,598	2
31/12/20	£215,805	£187,320	£28,485	20
31/12/19	£260,345	£197,146	£63,199	20

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who works here?

2 volunteers

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Throughout England And Wales, United Arab Emirates, United States,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - The Mindfulness Initiative
£50,000	20/07/2021 12	Grant to The Mindfulness Initiative
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - The Mindful Workplace Community
£50,000	14/11/2019 29	We will use the grant to support the launch and continuation of The Mindful Workplace Community, the purpose of which is to support the cultivation of mindfulness and compassion in the workplace. We ....more We will use the grant to support the launch and continuation of The Mindful Workplace Community, the purpose of which is to support the cultivation of mindfulness and compassion in the workplace. We are periodically contacted by people championing mindfulness initiatives in their workplaces, who require support and mentorship and want to contribute their time to help create more human offices (addressing current issues around mental health and well-being, employee engagement, etc.) . In order to meet this need, we would like to create communities, providing these pioneers (working in a nascent field with little regulation) a space in which they can feel supported, access information about best practice and share their knowledge and experiences. The idea is to create several communities to address different populations with specific requirements: champions (for people implementing mindfulness within their organisations who require support, guidance, networking and mentoring), leaders (for VPs and above at companies with large number of employees), trainers (to engage suppliers of mindfulness training in the workplace and help them define and implement best practices), working groups (for people who want to volunteer their time and help us create publications and organise events). We will host events for these communities as well as for the general public. Initially, we would like to have 5 smaller salon events addressed to different groups to generate community, 1 trainer-specific event (workplace trainers do not have anything like this on offer where they can meet with other trainers anywhere else at the moment) and 1 flagship pioneer awards ceremony to engage larger corporates, get media attention and reward best practice, per year. The grant funds will be used to cover the following (figures provided are estimates and subject to change): ● 1 community manager to support the communities, organise events, manage comms, etc.; Base salary £30,000 per year ● 5 salon events costing £600 each (to cover catering, photographer and marketing) - total of £3,000; Venues to be provided by members of the group ● 1 trainer event costing £2,000 (including catering, photographer, marketing and venue hire) ● 1 flagship pioneer awards event costing £5,000 (this includes premium venue hire, catering, photographer, marketing materials) ● Other costs (e.g. design work, annual exclusive community events, additional mar-keting materials, website design and maintenance) £10,000
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - The Mindfulness Community [launch]
£30,000	19/11/2018 8	Grant to The Mindfulness Initiative

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANGELA MCCUSKER Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: THE VENTURE TRUST,

DAVID CROOK Appointed: 2023

ED HALLIWELL Appointed: 2018

KATIE JAYNE WHITE MA, OBE Appointed: 2018

PATRICIA K BARTLEY (Chair) Appointed: 2019

PAULINE GIBBS Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/09/2018, number: 1179834

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Mindfulness Initiative
International House
101 King's Cross Road
London
WC1X 9LP

Objectives

“TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING, AND IN FURTHERANCE: I) TO SUPPLY EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND OTHER SERVICES TO MEMBERS OF THE UK PARLIAMENT AND CIVIL SERVICE TO HELP THEM INQUIRE INTO THE PRACTICE, SCIENCE AND BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING WITHIN PUBLIC SERVICES AND POLICY MAKING, AND EXTEND SUCH EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND OTHER SERVICES TO THE LEGISLATIVE SYSTEMS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. II) TO EDUCATE LEADERS, PROFESSIONALS AND SERVICE COMMISSIONERS ABOUT THE PRACTICE, SCIENCE AND BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING IN ALL SECTORS. III) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING PROGRAMMES OF ALL KINDS, AND MAKE THIS RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. IV) TO SUPPORT THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF MINDFULNESS, COMPASSION AND OTHER CONTEMPLATIVE MIND-TRAINING PROGRAMMES BY COOPERATING WITH MINDFULNESS ORGANISATIONS, ACADEMICS AND PRACTITIONERS INTERNATIONALLY, INCLUDING BY CONVENING AND FACILITATING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND OTHER GATHERINGS TO SHARE INFORMATION AND COORDINATE RESEARCH

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