OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Mental Health Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC039714
Registered9 July 2008
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC039714
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
95
Postcode
SE1 4PD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To promote public education and research into mental disorders of all kinds, their prevention, causes, treatment and care provided that the useful results of any such research are made public. To relieve persons suffering from mental disorders of all kinds and provide or assist in the provision of the treatment and care of such persons. To preserve and protect the mental health of persons who, because of stress, poverty or other circumstances, are at risk of mental disorder. To relieve poverty among families of persons suffering from mental disorder.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£6,683,617£7,352,5019529 October 2025
31 March 2024£7,547,022£8,903,5249516 October 2024
31 March 2023£7,373,929£11,428,4489519 December 2023
31 March 2022£10,683,590£10,856,9409516 December 2022
31 March 2021£12,205£7,2529514 January 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Studio 2, 197 Long Lane, London
Website supplied to OSCR
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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