Common questions about Solent Mind's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Solent Mind a good charity? +
Solent Mind scores 76 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 95% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Solent Mind a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Solent Mind as a registered charity (charity number 1081116). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1081116&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Solent Mind's charity number? +
Solent Mind's charity number is 1081116. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Solent Mind's charity rating? +
Solent Mind scores 76 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Solent Mind have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Solent Mind. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Solent Mind? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of Solent Mind's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Solent Mind's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Solent Mind. Solent Mind's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Solent Mind receive? +
Solent Mind reported £12m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Solent Mind's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-17). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Solent Mind based? +
Solent Mind's registered contact address is in Southampton (SO17 1XF). It tells the regulator it operates in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Southampton City, Portsmouth City, with a focus on mental health.
How much is Solent Mind's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Solent Mind's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Solent Mind's money come from? +
Solent Mind reported £12m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £11m (93%), donations and legacies £408k (4%), trading and fundraising events £292k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £36k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Solent Mind? +
The register records Solent Mind as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Solent Mind's trustees paid? +
Solent Mind's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Solent Mind registered as a charity? +
Solent Mind was entered on the register on 14 June 2000. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04004500).
How does CharityCompare score Solent Mind? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Solent Mind's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Solent Mind's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.