THE INSTITUTE OF GROUP ANALYSIS

Registered charity 280942 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC040468 (OSCR)

The IGA runs training courses for group analysts (group psychotherapists) and workshops and events which offer members and the public interesting themes to explore along group-analytic lines. The Clinical Referral Service offers an informal telephone discussion for potential patients.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE INSTITUTE IS TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF TREATMENT

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · 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 an overall net deficit of £25,499 for the year ended 31 July 2025, an improvement from the prior year's deficit of £41,931. Free reserves stood at £431,424, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to at least six months' expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm the organisation remains a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its financial position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Hayes
• Dr Kevin Flinn
• Dr Susanne Vosmer
• Graham Mackay
• Hicham Jabrane
• Richard Douglas Blackwell

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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 GROUP ANALYTIC SOCIETY ,INTERNATIONAL.

• GROUP ANALYTIC SOCIETY ,INTERNATIONAL income £138k
• GROUP ANALYSIS NORTH income £311k
• INSTITUTE OF MONEY ADVISERS income £693k
• INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION income £3.5m
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY ( AGIP ) income £159k
• THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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