ACTION FOR HAPPINESS

Registered charity 1175160 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q60318283 · Wikipedia

Action for Happiness is a charity which promotes mental health and wellbeing, through the provision of information, evidence-based resources, public events, educational services, training and community activities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND TO ASSIST IN THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CARE AND EDUCATION OF PERSONS CURRENTLY OR POTENTIALLY AT RISK OF SUFFERING FROM, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR ANY ILLNESS OR SOCIAL ISOLATION RELATING TO SUCH CONDITIONS AND TO EDUCATE OTHERS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ISSUES;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING RELATED ISSUES.3) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME.

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: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £125,009 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a drawdown of unrestricted funds. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of approximately £399,000 remain broadly in line with the stated policy target of six months' expenditure. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern purposes.

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 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.

• 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
• 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 — Action for Happiness (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~15.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Judy Gibbonschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Charles Stead · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Thompson
• Lord PETER RICHARD GRENVILLE LAYARD
• Louisa Elizabeth Sampson
• Michiel Nolet
• VANESSA ANN KING

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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR HUMANITY.

• ACTION FOR HUMANITY income £25.6m
• SOCIAL ACTION FOR HEALTH income £361k
• WELLBEING IN ACTION income £85k
• THE CENTRE FOR BETTER HEALTH LTD income £611k
• ACT FOR CHANGE income £215k
• TOGETHER FOR MENTAL WELLBEING income £23.4m

Side by side with its peers

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