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Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 15
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATIONS 

Mental Health Innovations (MHI) is a digital mental health charity, which develops new ways to help people have conversations about mental health. We combine digital innovation, data-driven analysis and the experience of mental health experts. Our purpose is to transform lives by improving access to helpful digital resources for mental ill health in the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £1,124,244 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£6,122£6,736£-614£627£628£-1,124-2842,200
31/12/21£5,235£5,941£-706£358£1,242£7131.4791,794
31/12/20£5,975£5,367£609£207£1,949£1,6013.6622,314
31/12/19£3,545£3,965£-420£168£1,340£8072.4391,671
31/12/18£3,787£2,027£1,760£45£1,760£0n/a18543
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 19%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 86%
Liabilities/Income: 65%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: -179%
Reserves/Spending: -2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Comment: Support from funders enabled the charity to significantly grow their Shout service last year. In order to respond to the growing demand due to the lockdown in March 2020, there was significant investment in building the staffing of the organisation, the volunteer community and the underlying systems supporting service delivery and robust governance.

Source: Giving is Great

Established: 6 years

www.mentalhealthinnovations.org

info@mhiuk.org

02045384500

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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How you can help
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 84 employees
  • 2,200 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Greenwood Place£760,000
National Lottery Community Fund£500,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£300,000
CHK Foundation£270,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£75,000 07/09/2022
support towards running cost
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£100,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£150,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Mental Health Innovations
£30,400 08/06/2022
Purchase of IT equipment to support a UK wide 24/7 text based mental health support service
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£50,000 01/04/2022
Unrestricted funding
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£16,000 22/02/2022
to support specified work
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£4,000 22/02/2022
to support specified work
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Mental Health Innovations
£5,000 15/09/2021
Research into effectiveness of SHOUT
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£150,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£100,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
Dulverton Trust - Shout, the UK's only 24/7 crisis text line
£35,000 09/06/2021
Shout, the UK's only 24/7 crisis text line
CHK Foundation - CHK Emergency /Disaster Grant
£25,000 22/03/2021
to support specified work
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£75,000 01/12/2020
to support specified work
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£160,000 01/07/2020
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Mental Health Innovations - SHOUT
£50,000 01/07/2020
Unrestricted funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£300,000 07/02/2020
Shout (Core Costs)
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£50,000 04/12/2019
to support specified work
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£25,000 04/12/2019
to support specified work
National Lottery Community Fund - Shout ? the UK?s first free text service for people in crisis
£500,000 05/07/2019
19
Shout ' the UK's first free text service for people in crisis
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Mental Health Innovations
£90,000 11/03/2019
36
Towards the salary of a Mental Health Innovations Fellow.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/11/2017, number: 1175670
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

PO Box 78319
LONDON
W10 9FE

Objectives

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROMOTING THE PRESERVATION AND THE SAFEGUARDING OF MENTAL HEALTH.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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