HOSPITAL ROOMS

Registered charity 1168101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that believes in the enduring power of art to instil value, dignity and wellbeing in people. We commission museum quality artists to create thoughtful, therapeutic and creative environments in mental health units and run arts workshops for service users. We focus on co-production and work in genuine partnership with each unit's community.

Objects

HOSPITAL ROOMS PROMOTES THE IMPROVED HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF MENTAL HEALTHSERVICE USERS BY ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITALS THROUGH THEPROVISION OF HIGH QUALITY AND COMPLIANT DESIGN, ART AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 £344,364 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 32% to £1,850,493. Free reserves stood at £552,831, which is above the trustees' policy target of covering three months of total expenditure. The accounts state that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due and there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Bennewith 2018 Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Hospital Rooms: Balancing Acts macbirmingham.co.uk · 27/04/2026
• Hospital Rooms: Arts and mental health charity launches landmark national project macbirmingham.co.uk · 05/04/2025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alison Acampora — Managing Director (source)
• Tim Shaw — Co-Founder (source)
• Niamh White — Co-Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Baring Foundation — “Trusts & Foundations The Baring Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amie Corrychair
• Adeola Gay
• Anton Hinel
• Emma Wadey
• James Willington
• Katharine Lazenby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lakshnie Hettihewa
• Neil Wenman
• Pravin Fernando
• Rosanna Cundall
• Sikelela Owen
• Tom Ewing

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Our Room Manchester.

• Our Room Manchester income £373k
• PERFORMING ROOM income £123k
• LONG EATON ART ROOM income £122k
• ROOM TO HEAL income £442k
• CORE ARTS income £1.3m
• HEALING ROOMS ENGLAND & WALES income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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