SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY

Registered charity 1191490 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRIES

Sanctuary delivers training online and in person, and offers free downloadable resources for leaders and members. All material is developed with mental health professionals, church leaders, and people with lived experience. Resources and training help grow wellbeing awareness and build communities where individuals with mental health challenges feel safe, supported and a sense of belonging.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE BY CHURCHES IN THE UK IN ACCORDANCE WITH AGREED CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.

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: South Staffordshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £23,750 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds decreasing from £47,749 to £23,999. The Trustees consider it prudent to maintain reserves equivalent to approximately three months of operating expenditure, a target that was not met due to income volatility and reduced delivery-based income. Despite the deficit, the Trustees are satisfied that the charity can meet its liabilities as they fall due and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 09/04/2024, 9 days after the 31/03/2024 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 26/04/2022, 26 days after the 31/03/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12594940

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sanctuary Mental Health Society (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).

• Murdock Trust — “We are also in partnership with Life.Church Open Network , have our devotionals featured in the YouVersion Bible App, and are funded by the …” (source page)

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.

• HOAR, Karen Elsie Anne — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• NASH, Paul, Dr. — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• SCOTT, Nicholas James — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• MAYER, Ian Robert — director, appointed 25/07/2025on trustee list
• NAKUBAYA, Farayi — director, appointed 11/05/2024not on trustee list
• NASH, Mark Scott — director, appointed 11/05/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Scott Nashchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Farayi Nyakubaya
• Ian Robert Mayer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Elsie Anne Hoar
• Nicholas Scott
• Paul Nash Dr · trustee of 2 other charities

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.

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 SANCTUARY FAMILY SUPPORT.

• SANCTUARY FAMILY SUPPORT income £175k
• SANCTUARY FOUNDATION income £100k
• THE CLOCK TOWER SANCTUARY income £728k
• HEART2HEART SANCTUARY HOUSE LTD. income £76k
• SANCTUARY TRUST LIMITED income £3.2m
• Sanctuary Church UK income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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