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Registered charity · London

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness is a registered charity (number 271028) based in London, governed by 15 trustees. Latest income £44m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Rethink (Charity Commission)

2. History and Objects2.1 The National Schizophrenia Fellowship was founded for the benefit of people experiencing schizophrenia and related conditions and their carers. Over the years the Charity has evolved and now works to improve the lives of...

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £44m (2025)
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About

What it does
Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.rethink.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rethink Mental Illness
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£48m
  • 2024£45m£46m
  • 2023£41m£41m
Earlier years
  • 2022£37m£35m
  • 2021£33m£30m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 68%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2. History and Objects2.1 The National Schizophrenia Fellowship was founded for the benefit of people experiencing schizophrenia and related conditions and their carers. Over the years the Charity has evolved and now works to improve the lives of everyone severely affected by mental illness, including schizophrenia and psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and personality disorder. To achieve this, the Objects are: (a) to improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness and their families and carers through local support groups and services;(b) to provide expert advice, information and training to the public in the field of mental health and welfare, including influencing Government and decision makers more widely; and(c) to advance awareness and understanding as to the causes, consequences and management of mental illness, working to decrease the stigma surrounding it.

Grants received

72 grants · £8,005,324 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

15 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 15Accommodation/housing 1Education/training 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 13Other services 4Arts and leisure 2

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.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£43.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.1 in 2021

1175 from 872 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
271028
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 SEP 1975NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30 NOV 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 NOV 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 NOV 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 NOV 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 NOV 2017 as amended on 09 Jan 2019 as amended on 14 Nov 2020 as amended on 02 Feb 2023 as amended on 19 Nov 2022 as amended on 17 Jul 2025
Companies House
Company number 01227970 · Active
Contact on the register
01215227007 · info@rethink.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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