INSTITUTE OF HEALTH VISITING

Registered charity 1149745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLLEGE OF HEALTH VISITING, IHV

The Institute operates across the UK and is building international connections with other countries seeking to strengthen their own public health nursing practice. The mission of the iHV is to be a Centre of Excellence,- supporting the development of high quality health visiting practice,- so that health visitors can respond to the health needs of all children, families and communities

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1. THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH;2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;3. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF SUCH INDIVIDUALSBY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACTING AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR HEALTH VISITING FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY LIVE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £41,857 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £1,692,884. It holds unrestricted reserves of £977,551, which the trustees state equate to approximately seven months of standard running costs. The accounts confirm the charity is in a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue operating.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by CT Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (FY2024) → 2 (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
• 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

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 08234405

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.

• BLAIR, Mitchel Eliot, Professor — director, appointed 30/01/2024on trustee list
• TOKLEY, Susan Janet — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• LIU, Christina — director, appointed 20/04/2022on trustee list
• BISHOP, Theresa — director, appointed 13/10/2021on trustee list
• BEDFORD, Helen Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
• CARLISLE, Samantha Louise — director, appointed 05/05/2020on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Dave — director, appointed 28/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alis Rasul
• Christina Liu
• Dave Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Helen Bedford
• Dr Michael John Fanner
• Professor Dame Sarah Ann Cowley
• Professor Mitchel Eliot Blair
• Samantha Carlisle
• Susan Janet Tokley
• Theresa Bishop

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES.

• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• INSTITUTE FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION RESEARCH income £1.0m
• HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH UK income £313k
• HEALTHCARE INFECTION SOCIETY income £1.7m
• HEALTH HELP INTERNATIONAL income £195k
• INSTITUTE OF HOSPITALITY income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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