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Registered charity · London

The Mental Health Foundation

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £6.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.mentalhealth.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Mental Health Foundation
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.7m£7.4m
  • 2024£7.7m£8.9m
  • 2023£7.4m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£11m
  • 2021£13m£7.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE (I) TO PROMOTE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OF ALL KINDS, THEIR PREVENTION, CAUSES, TREATMENT AND CARE PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH ARE MADE PUBLIC AND USED TO INFORM PUBLIC POLICY. (II) TO RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OF ALL KINDS AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF SUCH PERSONS. (III) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS WHO, BECAUSE OF STRESS, POVERTY OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES, ARE AT RISK OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLES; AND (IV) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG FAMILIES OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.

Grants received

43 grants · £5,773,602 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,021,682 (26 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £216,432 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £120,000 (2 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £110,636 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £100,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £146,3402024-08-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £146,9322024-06-27
  • Department of Health and Social Care £2,0002024-03-01
  • Department of Health and Social Care £108,6362024-03-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002023-06-09
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.

10 trustees on the board

3y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Environment/conservation/heritage 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 11Education 8Professional services 4

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£6.7m 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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 9.8 in 2021

96 from 113 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
801130
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22 FEB 1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JUL 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 NOV 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 MAR 2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10 APR 2018
Companies House
Company number 02350846 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7803 1100 · info@mentalhealth.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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