Registered charity · Oxford
Response Organisation
To provide support, accommodation, and related facilities (including registered care homes) to individuals who have mental health needs, including service users and former service users of NHS and other facilities focussing on mental health and...
- 9 trustees
- Income £17m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Bindi PalmerTrustee · since 2024
- Christopher CornforthTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Matt MuijenTrustee · since 2023
- Kezia RushworthTrustee · since 2023
- Lucy Jane WestonTrustee · since 2025
- Nicola IngeTrustee · since 2022
- Richard MiddletonTrustee · since 2026
- Sherry WhiteTrustee · since 2025
- Vanessa VogwillTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- West Berkshire, Reading, Central Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and more
- Website
- www.response.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Response Organisation
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£17m£17m
- 2024£17m£18m
- 2023£18m£18m
Earlier years
- 2022£17m£17m
- 2021£14m£14m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 37%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
To provide support, accommodation, and related facilities (including registered care homes) to individuals who have mental health needs, including service users and former service users of NHS and other facilities focussing on mental health and other persons in the community with mental health needs and who may have other physical or financial needs (The supported individuals)To advance the education of the public in all matters relating to hospitals, hospital management and mental health and to promote research and the dissemination of the useful results of such research; and to further such other charitable purposes for the benefit of the Supported individuals as the Trustees see fit from time to time.
Grants received
13 grants · £134,729 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £70,000 (2 grants)
- The Clothworkers' Foundation · £30,000
- Oxfordshire Community Foundation · £10,845 (3 grants)
- Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation · £10,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,420
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- Bindi Palmer since 2024
- Christopher Cornforth since 2024
- Dr Matt Muijen since 2023
- Kezia Rushworth since 2023
- Lucy Jane Weston since 2025
- Nicola Inge since 2022
- Richard Middleton since 2026
- Sherry White since 2025
- Vanessa Vogwill since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Bindi Palmer since 2024
- Christopher Cornforth since 2024
- Dr Matt Muijen since 2023
- Kezia Rushworth since 2023
- Lucy Jane Weston since 2025
- Nicola Inge since 2022
- Richard Middleton since 2026
- Sherry White since 2025
- Vanessa Vogwill since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.1 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1101071
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 MAY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 11 NOVEMBER 2003, 28 SEPTEMBER 2005, 14 MARCH 2006, 4 JANUARY 2007, 11 SEPTEMBER 2007, 8 JANUARY 2008 AND 12 MAY 2009 as amended on 23 Oct 2018 as amended on 22 May 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 04781936 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01865397940 · info@response.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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