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Mental Health Matters

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £28m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.mhm.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Mental Health Matters
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£28m£28m
  • 2024£26m£25m
  • 2023£24m£24m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£21m
  • 2021£18m£18m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 98%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO RELIEVE AND PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF PERSONS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OR ILLNESSES, HOWEVER THOSE PROBLEMS OR ILLNESSES HAVE ARISEN, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS.

Grants received

19 grants · £1,146,782 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.

Top funders

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

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 9Disability 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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 9Transport 6Other services 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£28.2m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.6 in 2021

604 from 408 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
514829
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/01/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/09/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/08/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/03/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/02/2013NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 04/03/2015 as amended on 22 Mar 2022
Companies House
Company number 01786914 · Active
Contact on the register
01915163500 · info@mhm.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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