THE CONFEDERATION OF HEALING ORGANISATIONS

Registered charity 1119533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides education, healer training, medical profession interface, information for public and institutions, a public register of complementary practitioners, support for Members. Funds Research. Increases public and professional awareness of Healing as a complementary therapy alongside mainstream medicine. Promotes employment of healers in hospitals, primary care, hospices and nursing homes.

Objects

TO ADVANCE HEALTH BY PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS IN HEALING FOR THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR BY: 1) PROVIDING INFORMATION ON HEALING TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC; 2) SUPPORTING AND PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN HEALING; AND 3) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING PROPER STANDARDS OF PRACTICE IN HEALING

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. 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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure deficit of £37,079 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £113,676 to £76,597. The trustees report that free reserves stood at £49,210 and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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 5 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 22/07/2024, 83 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05712128

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.

• MCWHINNIE, Alison Jane — director, appointed 08/01/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Melissa Jane — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• MASON, Susan Alexandra, Dr — director, appointed 15/06/2021on trustee list
• REBUCK, Raig Nigel — director, appointed 09/03/2021on trustee list
• BALEN, David Edwin — director, appointed 01/09/2007not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jane McWhinnie
• CRAIG NIGEL REBUCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID BALEN CERT PFS
• Melissa Jane Smith
• Susan Alexandra Mason

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COLLEGE OF HEALING LIMITED.

• COLLEGE OF HEALING LIMITED income £28k
• WORLD HEALING CENTRE income £73k
• CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND PASTORAL CARE income £291k
• HEREFORD CENTRE FOR NATURAL HEALTH income £32k
• CAMPAIGNS IN GLOBAL HEALTH income £954k
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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