ST MARTIN'S CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HEALING

Registered charity 1094458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of counselling & psychotherapy and money management services working with the disadvantaged and vulnerable.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GOOD PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES;2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY; AND3. TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH THE PURPOSES SET OUT IN CLAUSES 1 AND 2

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £730,617, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of eight months of core activity. The charity reported a net expenditure of £48,244 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £803,861 to £755,617.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04421138

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Martin's Centre for Health and Healing (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ALLCOCK, Jeremy Robert, Rev — director, appointed 30/05/2019on trustee list
• BLAIR CHAPPELL, Elsie, Rev'D — director, appointed 30/05/2019not on trustee list
• BLAIR CHAPPELL, Stephen — director, appointed 30/05/2019not on trustee list
• BARBER, Joanna — director, appointed 10/07/2014on trustee list
• RUSHEN, Miriam Christine — director, appointed 20/06/2008on trustee list
• FERRIS, Sally Ann — director, appointed 13/01/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE RUSHEN
• DR Joanna Barber
• Elsie Blair Chappell
• Rev Jeremy Allcock
• SALLY ANN FERRIS
• Stephen Blair Chappell

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAKING MIRACLES.

• MAKING MIRACLES income £301k
• HARMAN HOUSE COUNSELLING CENTRE income £33k
• HEADLIGHT MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY income £65k
• THE MINSTER CENTRE income £2.0m
• THE SOCIETY OF MARY AND MARTHA income £649k
• LIFE CENTRE income £835k

Side by side with its peers

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