THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 801130 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MHF · also registered in Scotland as SC039714 (OSCR)

The Mental Health Foundation works to promote good mental health and to improve the lives of people affected by mental health problems. With prevention at the heart of what we do, we aim to find and address the sources of mental health problems so that people and communities can thrive.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a planned deficit of £0.7m, resulting in a decrease in net assets to £13.2m. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves of £3.4m, which they consider sufficient given the uncertain funding landscape and the need to ensure financial stability. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to continue operations for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mental Health Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ayodeji Ogunyemi
• Dr Anna Zecharia
• Elizabeth Lockett
• Huma Maryam Malik
• Laura Alice Earnshaw
• Professor Gavin Davidson
• Richard Scothorne
• Sami Gichki
• Stephen William Workman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Mursell

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH).

• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• LANCASHIRE MIND LIMITED income £2.5m
• THE COUNSELLING FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m
• CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY income £8.7m
• THE MCPIN FOUNDATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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