PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 284286 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q41568119

Supporting research both with protected funds used only for research in specified areas, and unrestricted funds, awarded to young researchers in open competition, provided they are supervised and that their research falls within one of the Clinical Academic Groups (CAG) of the IoPPN. Additionally, supporting young psychiatrists from Eastern Europe and developing countries

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT BY ALL AVAILABLE MEANS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIONS INTO MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL ILLNESS INCLUDING SPECIFIC DISEASES OR CONDITIONS WITH PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS AND THE CAUSES, MEANS OF PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT O SUCH DISEASES AND CONDITIONS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECT IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, THE BETHLEHEM ROYAL HOSPITAL AND THE MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £5,159,508 from £5,389,554 in the prior year, driven by a net movement in funds of £(230,046). Unrestricted reserves stood at £2,500,673, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for at least 12 months, adhering to a policy of holding 1.5 years of spending in reserve.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper 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
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Psychiatry Research Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~150.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Carmine Pariantechair
• Ben Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL STEWART
• PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER LANTOS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor DINESH BHUGRA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Elizabeth Kuipers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor George Szmukler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Khalida Ismail · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Paola Dazzan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor STEPHEN SCOTT · trustee of 3 other charities
• Professor Tom Craig · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · India · Kent · Throughout London

Income and spending

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• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
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Side by side with its peers

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