Rethink Mental Illness

Registered charity 271028 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7316698 · Wikipedia · also known as NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA FELLOWSHIP, RETHINK

To provide information, advice, support & services of the highest standard to those experiencing severe mental illness, their families & carers, in areas such as housing, education & training, rehabilitation & employment and recreation. To spread understanding about severe mental illness. To campaign nationally & locally for high quality care, including both acute & long-term services.

Objects

2. History and Objects2.1 The National Schizophrenia Fellowship was founded for the benefit of people experiencing schizophrenia and related conditions and their carers. Over the years the Charity has evolved and now works to improve the lives of everyone severely affected by mental illness, including schizophrenia and psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and personality disorder. To achieve this, the Objects are: (a) to improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness and their families and carers through local support groups and services;(b) to provide expert advice, information and training to the public in the field of mental health and welfare, including influencing Government and decision makers more widely; and(c) to advance awareness and understanding as to the causes, consequences and management of mental illness, working to decrease the stigma surrounding it.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income fell slightly to £43.9 million, resulting in an end-of-year deficit of £4.0 million due to fundraising shortfalls and service closures. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves dropped to £3.415 million, falling below the stated minimum policy target of £3.5 million, though the charity remains well-positioned for future growth.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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
• 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)

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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).

• Who’s Moving: Oxfam, Rethink Mental Illness, British Red Cross and more civilsociety.co.uk · 12/10/2026
• Single gene research forcing psychiatry to rethink mental illness roarnews.co.uk · 21/02/2026
• PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID CORIO UNVEILS COLLECTION FOR RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS AND PRINT MATTERS vergemagazine.co.uk · 11/09/2025
• London Marathon runners break record for Rethink Mental Illness einpresswire.com · 28/04/2025
• New campaign urges people in the North West to rethink mental illness stigma. lep.co.uk · 25/09/2024
• Rethink Mental Illness' 50th Anniversary Campaign Puts Severe Mental Illness on People's Agenda lbbonline.com · 19/05/2022
• Welwyn Garden City cyclist raises £40,000 to help make people Rethink mental illness whtimes.co.uk · 14/08/2013

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01227970
• Trading subsidiary: RETHINK TRADING LTD Companies House 04570581 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rethink Mental Illness (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).

• Pension Insurance Corporation — “Today , w e work with a wide range of businesses , such as Pension Insurance Corporation , Capital One , Liberty Sp eciality Markets and B…” (source page)
• Capital One — “Today , w e work with a wide range of businesses , such as Pension Insurance Corporation , Capital One , Liberty Sp eciality Markets and B…” (source page)
• Liberty Speciality Markets — “Today , w e work with a wide range of businesses , such as Pension Insurance Corporation , Capital One , Liberty Sp eciality Markets and B…” (source page)
• Berkeley St Edward — “Today , w e work with a wide range of businesses , such as Pension Insurance Corporation , Capital One , Liberty Sp eciality Markets and B…” (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.

• COWAN, James Richard, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• THAKKAR, Sara Jane — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• SWITHENBANK, Zoe, Dr — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• THALIWAL, Ranjit — director, appointed 04/09/2025on trustee list
• BALGHAN, Jasvinder Kaur — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• BRAUNER-CAVE, Simon Spencer — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• FROST-BRYANT, Joanna Elizabeth — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
• SHETH, Rajen — director, appointed 13/06/2022on trustee list
• HOMAN, Rosalind Clare — director, appointed 13/11/2021on trustee list
• GORRINGE, Edward George Alexander — director, appointed 21/01/2021on trustee list
• STEAD, Christine — director, appointed 14/11/2020on trustee list
• JACKSON, Ian Paul — director, appointed 28/02/2019on trustee list
• TYSON, Kathryn Mary — director, appointed 08/02/2018on trustee list
• LIVER, John — director, appointed 08/02/2018on trustee list
• TULIP-BRIGGS, Aphra Grace Eloise — director, appointed 08/02/2018on trustee list
• YEATES, Amy Lindsay — secretary, appointed 16/07/2026

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £803k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Rethink Mental Illness — Registered, 44 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 07/12/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Trustpilot: Rethink - Severe Mental Illness scores 1.9/5 from 18 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram (116 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 4.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Grove Court: Requires improvement (14/10/2024) · CQC record
• Cavendish Lodge: Requires improvement (12/01/2023) · CQC record
• Victoria Court: Requires improvement (02/10/2020) · CQC record
• Romsey / Winchester Avenue: Requires improvement (16/05/2023) · CQC record
• Thistley Lodge: Requires improvement (10/08/2019) · CQC record
• Derwent Lodge: Good (06/07/2018) · CQC record
• Shipley Lodge: Good (26/02/2020) · CQC record
• Wilton Road: Good (26/02/2020) · CQC record
• The Mead: Good (22/07/2021) · CQC record
• Bath Road: Good (21/08/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aphra Tulip-Briggs
• Christine Stead
• Dr James Richard Cowan
• Dr Zoe Swithenbank · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward George Alexander Gorringe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Paul Jackson
• Jasvinder Kaur Balghan
• Joanna Frost-Bryant
• John Robert Liver
• Kathryn Tyson
• Rajen Sheth
• Ranjit Thaliwal
• Rosalind Clare Homan
• Sara Jane Thakkar
• Simon Spencer Brauner-Cave

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m
• OPENMIND.ED income £34k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• MINDAPPLES income £44k
• MANCHESTER MIND income £2.9m
• IMAGINE INDEPENDENCE income £12.0m

Side by side with its peers

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