Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
SECE Mind

SECE Mind Annual Impact Report 2025

SECE Mind (South East and Central Essex Mind) is a small Essex mental health charity in its 60th year, delivering counselling, supported housing, physical activity and community mental health programmes across Southend-on-Sea and surrounding areas. In 2024/25 it supported 285 housing residents, 200 adults in counselling, 145 children and young people in counselling, 50 young people through CrossFit Teens and 60 people through Brazilarte jiu-jitsu sessions. The charity underwent significant governance reform — refreshing its management team, board and mission — and launched the Move for your Mind campaign with Active Essex and Mind in Essex. Total income was £568,000.

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Supported Housing (mental health support for housing residents, flexible community-based floating support); Adult Counselling; Children and Young People Counselling; CrossFit Teens (physical fitness and mental health for young people); Brazilarte jiu-jitsu (mental health through martial arts); Mind in Motion (physical activity for those in recovery from drug and alcohol misuse, in partnership with Active Essex); Floating Support (holistic community mental health); Somewhere to Turn (mental health support and signposting); Mental Elf annual 5k charity run; corporate partner programme; upcoming Ukrainian counselling support with Essex County Council Custom geography from upload: South East and Central Essex, UK (Southend-on-Sea, Castlepoint, Rochford)

📊Key Metrics

285 adults supported through housing services; 200 adults supported through counselling; 145 children and young people supported through counselling Key Metric 1
50 young people supported through CrossFit Teens; 60 people supported through Brazilarte jiu-jitsu sessions; 180 people took part in annual Mental Elf 5k festive fun run Key Metric 2
£568k total income (£465k commissioning, £62k grant funding, £41k donations/corporate); 50+ women attended International Women's Day conference raising £3,913 Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • New 3-year business plan signed off with focus on community partnerships, counselling and housing; refreshed board of trustees with 9 members and new 12-person advisory group; charity chosen as London Southend Airport Charity of the Year 2025
  • Move for your Mind campaign launched with Mind in Essex and Active Essex Foundation — bringing physical and mental health together across Essex
  • 2026 plans include corporate counselling package, Ukrainian community counselling (in partnership with Essex County Council), Research Lab using lived experience data, and 60th anniversary celebrations with £60,000 fundraising target

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