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Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 15
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
    • Large volunteers +3
    • Grant maker support: +12
    Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

    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

    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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    Established: 6 years

    www.mentalhealthinnovations.org

    info@mhiuk.org

    02045384500

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
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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

    Listed activities
    • General Charitable Purposes
    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
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    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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