CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Registered charity 1091156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5062513 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Centre for Mental Health undertakes research and development activities in the field of mental health. These activities are particularly focussed on mental health care in prisons and the criminal justice system and on issues relating to the employment of people with mental health problems. Findings and recommendations are aimed at creating improvements on a national scale.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BY: (A) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE; (B) PROMOTING RESEARCH THEREIN AND AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND (C) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR THOSE IN NEED OF SUCH CARE .

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £37,910 for the year, a turnaround from the previous year's deficit, driven by cost reduction measures and staff redundancies. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £455,916 are held within the stated policy target range of £361,000 to £586,000. The trustees and auditors confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Centre for Mental Health (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Active Essex — “We currently receive funding from the following: Active Essex” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andre Tomlin
• Christopher Paul Chapman
• Dr Ariel Chardonnay Breaux
• Emma Marilyn Elizabeth Mamo
• MICHAEL JOHN MORLEY
• Morgan Elisabeth Vine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Malcolm Orlando Alleyne
• Philip Paul Ross · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Elizabeth Bleazard

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• THE CENTRE FOR BETTER HEALTH LTD income £611k
• THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION income £6.7m
• MONEY AND MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE income £1.3m
• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m
• CONNECT FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH income £265k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.