NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

Registered charity 1190515 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The National Centre for Creative Health will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. Research shows that active engagement with the arts, culture and creativity is beneficial for the health and wellbeing of us all.

Objects

TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND WELLBEING BY SUPPORTING THE PROVISION OF ART, CULTURE AND CREATIVITY

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£394k

Latest spending

£570k

Registered

2020

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £176,225 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £310,096 to £133,871. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £103,400, which the charity maintains to provide working capital equivalent to three months of committed operating expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £63,323 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £60k)

“The Director, as the highest paid member of staff, received benefits totalling £63,323 (2024 £51,392).” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months of committed operating expenditure (held: £103k)

“NCCH maintains free unrestricted reserves: • to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work – this will be equivalent to three months of committed operating expenditure.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Professor Helen Chatterjee is a trustee and is employed by University College London (UCL) and is the AHRC programme Director. UCL and AHRC provide grant funding to the charity.

“One of the trustees, Professor Helen Chatterjee, is employed by University College London and is the AHRC programme Director for Health Inequalities, leading the Mobilising Community Assets research programme on behalf of UKRI. UCL and AHRC provide grant funding to National Centre for Creative Health.” — page 24

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2023)

Total income

£759k

Total spending

£197k

Reserves (reported)

£25k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (11/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Professor Martin Neil Marshallchair · trustee of 2 other charities
Andrea Mary Sutcliffe CBE
David Charles Clayton-Smith
Debbie Teale
Dr Guddi Vijaya Rani Singh
Helen Jane Chatterjee MBE
Isabelle Ann Paagman
Jane Eiluned Thomas
Nancy Jane Juliet Hey
Teresa Chiamaka Salami-Oru
WILLIAM ANDREW BOA

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£394k	£570k
31/07/2024	£160k	£556k
31/07/2023	£759k	£197k
31/07/2022	£278k	£153k
31/07/2021	£37k	£18k

Common questions

Is NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £176,225 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £310,096 to £133,871. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £103,400, which the charity maintains to provide working capital equivalent to three months of committed operating expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

What does the highest-paid employee of NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £63,323 band.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	24/10/2024	£200k	Investment Funds

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
KUSUMA TRUST UK	2	£292k
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£60k
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£6k
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	2	£2k
THE RAYNE FOUNDATION	1	£250k
COUTTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£180k
THE PRUDENCE TRUST	1	£162k
SIR HALLEY STEWART TRUST	1	£150k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE.

CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE income £452k
INDEPENDENT ARTS income £439k
CORE ARTS income £1.3m
THE CENTRE FOR BETTER HEALTH LTD income £649k
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL PRESCRIBING income £3.1m
CREATE (ARTS) LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH	£394k	£63,323	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE FY2025	£452k	Under £60,000	0	unclear	—	no doubt
INDEPENDENT ARTS FY2025	£439k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
CORE ARTS FY2025	£1.3m	more than £60,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CENTRE FOR BETTER HEALTH LTD FY2025	£649k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	below	—	no doubt
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL PRESCRIBING FY2025	£3.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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