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MindforYou
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MindforYou opens the world of holidays and leisure, providing wellbeing, joy and relaxation for people living with dementia, their informal carers, family and friends.
Match Funded
Win Win
This investment is match funded with an investment of £50,000 from the Peoples’ Postcode Lottery.
- Where your money goes
- Team
- Documents
- Updates
Updates
Closing Date of Share Offer extended to 31st July 2021
28th May 2021
A message from Carol Sargent - CEO and Secretary, MindforYou:
We
are thrilled to have raised over £280K and hit our first milestone. Thank you
to everyone who has already invested. We can now fully secure our holidays in
the second half of 2021 and start work on our 2022 holidays.
We’re
overwhelmed by the response to our community shares and we’d love to reach the
maximum, so are extending the offer deadline to Saturday 31st July. The additional
investment will hire more staff to share our knowledge and deliver more
holidays to make a bigger difference to the lives of people affected by
dementia.
Thank
you for your support and we look forward to welcoming you as new members.
Share Offer reaches minimum target and end to 'early bird' interest rate
24th May 2021
We're very pleased to share the great news that MindforYou has reached the minimum target raise for their share offer to proceed!
The share offer had a target interest rate of 4% on the first £275k of investment to encourage investment towards the minimum target. And with today's great news that the target has been reached, any further investment will receive interest at a target interest rate of 3% per annum.
We look forward to seeing this great share offer hit its maximum target in the near future!
Share Offer receives match funding from Postcode Innovation Trust
14th April 2021
We’re pleased to announce that Postcode Innovation Trust, a grant-giving trust funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, is deploying £50,000 of match-funding into the MindforYou community share offer as part of a larger match-funding commitment to Ethex.
From 14th April 2021, every £1 invested into the share offer will be matched by £1 by Postcode Innovation Trust, up to a maximum of £50,000, providing a boost to individual investments and taking the share offer closer to their minimum raise of £275,000.
The investment forms part of a £310,000 tranche of funding from Postcode Innovation Trust into 3 share offers. Laura Chow, Head of Charities at People’s Postcode Lottery, said: “I’m delighted funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery is supporting these three fantastic causes, enabling them to create a positive impact on the lives of the people and the communities they’re supporting.”
MindforYou
Society no. 8561
Leicestershire, UK
Incorporation date: 05/03/2021
Your money will…
Create more special connections for people living with dementia and their families to rediscover a life not defined by their disease.
Combat dementia isolation, by bringing unpaid carers and their loved ones together for mutual support and improved wellbeing.
Highlight alternative ways society can respond to the growing challenges of dementia by giving personal choices.
Get 30% EIS tax relief on your investment. 4% per annum interest is offered on the first £275k (3% thereafter).
The bigger picture
Every 3 minutes someone in the UK develops dementia. Providing social contact is very important for people with dementia, particularly, in our new world of social distancing and COVID-19 lockdowns. MindforYou recognise the:
- Needs of those unpaid carers and families, 40% of whom provide care for more than 100 hours a week for their loved one with dementia.
- Importance of quality and since 2015 have refined their tailored holidays in high-quality dementia-friendly accommodation for people living with dementia and their families.
- Value of wellbeing and have evidenced benefits of their holidays on both unpaid carers and their loved ones with dementia
- Need for dignified support and choice - not care - giving independent, personalised breaks for everyone - right down to the choice of biscuits available!
Where your money goes
When you invest in MindforYou, you are helping make a positive impact on lives. Your investment will:
- Buy community shares in MindforYou to support their growth. Learn more about community shares at https://www.ethex.org.uk/what-are-community-shares
- Support marketing to reach even more families who desperately need to rediscover leisure and holiday activities.
- Enable the team to offer enhanced activities and outings so families living with dementia can create treasured memories.
- Enhance their knowledge sharing, educating more holiday and leisure services to become more dementia-friendly, allowing the dementia community more independence to enjoy them.
Team
MindforYou is a Charitable Community Benefit Society that offers holiday and leisure activities for the dementia community
https://mindforyou.co.uk/
Victor Todorov
Director
Barbara Stephens
Director
Barbara believes that ‘lived experience’ contributions from people with dementia, family carers, and others with stories to tell, are key to the development of responsive and effective services.
Robin Parry
Director
Robin has had an interest in MindforYou since the summer of 2020, acting as a business sector mentor to the founder, Carol Sargent.
Gabrielle Dawes
Director
Gabrielle brings to the board her passion for both MindforYou holidays and the newly developed MindforYou digital services, and a determination to be an advocate for them.
Roger Moors
Director
Roger has followed and supported MindforYou for many years and is enthusiastic to be in a position to now bring his comprehensive Non Executive, management and community development skills to guide MindforYou’s future as a Charitable Community Benefit Society.
Kirstie Maclean Kalonji
Director
Kirstie is keen to support the board in ensuring that MindforYou continues to be a leader in measuring and championing insight into the individual and societal benefits of holidays for people with dementia and their family carers.
Mandy Coombs
Director
Having recently retired, Mandy now wishes to bring her educational, experience a considerable personal insight, planning and scientific skills, to guiding MindforYou holidays on the next stage of its development.
Carol Sargent
CEO
As founder of MindforYou Carol has driven the day to day operations of MindforYou for 6 years developing and refining the holiday product and delivering a year on year increase in holidays.
Mary Butler
CFO
Mary has 25 years financial experience as a senior manager with Lloyds TSB retail Bank. She has acted as board member / trustee for several major disability sports organisations.
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Interest accrual and payment
MindforYou will aim to pay 3% interest each year on the investment (4% on the first £275k invested). Interest will be accrued from share allocation date with the first payment being made at a time agreed by the board, but no earlier than a year from the date of share allocation. The first year’s interest will be pro rata.
Getting your money out
MindforYou is offering community shares which are "withdrawable" shares. These cannot be bought or sold on any market place and are not transferable. Although shares in MindforYou are withdrawable from Year 3 onwards, this is at the discretion of the directors, and you may not be able to withdraw the full amount you purchased if MindforYou does not have sufficient funds available at the time you want to withdraw.
Investing on behalf of children
MindforYou do not currently accept investments on behalf of children.
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