CHASING THE STIGMA

Registered charity 1170757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CTS, Hub of Hope

To promote and protect the physical and mental health of those experiencing mental illness of any description through the provision of support, education and practical advice.To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to mental illness.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MENTAL ILLNESS.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sefton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £310,585, which significantly exceeds the charity's stated target of approximately £150,000. The charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £97,440 for the year, driven by a transfer of restricted funds to unrestricted funds to cover the development of the Hub of Hope asset. The trustees confirmed the charity is financially healthy and able to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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.

• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chasing the Stigma (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Priory — “Priory is the leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care services in the UK, and has been the headline sponsor of t…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Megan Yarkerchair
• Andrew Murray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Pearl
• Nicola Margaret Croft -Girvan

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• MINDAPPLES income £44k
• HEADLIGHT MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY income £65k
• Rethink Mental Illness income £43.9m
• THE RECOVERY FOUNDATION income £158k
• CRH CHARITABLE TRUST income £395k

Side by side with its peers

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