SANE

Registered charity 296572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S A N E (SCHIZOPHRENIA A NATIONAL EMERGENCY), SANELINE

Raising awareness and campaigning to combat stigma surrounding mental illness and to improve mental health servicesProviding emotional support and specialist services through its helpline SANEline open 365 evenings a year, Email service, Textcare and Online ForumPromoting and hosting research into the causes of mental illness and effectiveness of treatments and therapies

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £372,306 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant investment purchases and charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold sufficient unrestricted funds to meet liabilities for up to twelve months, with total unrestricted funds carried forward at £2,668,897. The going concern basis is supported by adequate financial resources and incoming resources from numerous activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ferguson Maidment & Co.. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,000 - £79,999 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02114937

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SANE (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marjorie Wallace CBE — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• BREWER, John Douglas — director, appointed 16/02/2023on trustee list
• MACCABE, James Hunter, Professor — director, appointed 12/04/2019on trustee list
• DAVISON, Mark Patrick Hay — director, appointed 27/05/2015on trustee list
• BHUGRA, Dinesh Kumar, Professor — director, appointed 27/05/2015on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Victoria Anne, The Honourable Mrs — director, appointed 30/03/2010on trustee list
• BOWIS, John Crocket — director, appointed 25/10/2000on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Robert Anthony — director, appointed 21/05/1996on trustee list
• WALLACE, Marjorie Shiona — secretary

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT ANTHONY MATTHEWSchair
• JOHN CROCKET BOWIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Douglas Brewer
• MARK DAVISON
• PROF DINESH KUMAR BHUGRA
• Professor James Hunter MacCabe · trustee of 1 other charity
• VICTORIA RUSSELL HON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 Staffordshire Network for Mental Health.

• Staffordshire Network for Mental Health income £172k
• SOLENT MIND income £11.6m
• CARLISLE EDEN MIND LIMITED income £607k
• Rethink Mental Illness income £43.9m
• CHASING THE STIGMA income £533k
• CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY income £8.7m

Side by side with its peers

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