THE MCPIN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1117336 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a small charitable foundation that specialises in mental health research, championing people's lived experience in research so mental health is improved in communities everywhere. We deliver research in collaboration with partners, we provide patient and public involvement in mental health research studies and seek to influence the mental health research agenda. We work across England.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH OBJECTS THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £234,769 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward increasing to £2,542,729. The trustees' report confirms that reserves are held to cover project commitments and 12 months of running costs, noting that the organization is primarily dependent on grant income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ark Accountancy Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr NICHOLAS MCNALLYchair
• AMY MEADOWS
• Colby Benari
• Dr Rhys Matthew Dore
• Dr Wunmi Ademosu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Anstey
• Leigh Spanner
• Nathan Cope
• Sarah McLoughlin

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION income £6.7m
• MCS Foundation income £165k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE ROBERT MCALPINE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• MCS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £8.8m
• Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind Limited income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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