Common questions about Mental Health Innovations's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Mental Health Innovations a good charity? +
Mental Health Innovations scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 92% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Mental Health Innovations a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Mental Health Innovations as a registered charity (charity number 1175670). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1175670&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Mental Health Innovations's charity number? +
Mental Health Innovations's charity number is 1175670. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Mental Health Innovations's charity rating? +
Mental Health Innovations scores 70 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Mental Health Innovations have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Mental Health Innovations. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Mental Health Innovations? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 92% of Mental Health Innovations's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Mental Health Innovations's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 8% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 8% of expenditure (2022–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Mental Health Innovations. Mental Health Innovations's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 24 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Mental Health Innovations receive? +
Mental Health Innovations reported £8.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Mental Health Innovations's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Mental Health Innovations based? +
Mental Health Innovations's registered contact address is in London (W10 9FE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on mental health.
How much is Mental Health Innovations's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Mental Health Innovations's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 24 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Mental Health Innovations's money come from? +
Mental Health Innovations reported £8.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £6.8m (78%), charitable activities £1.9m (21%), investments £27k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Mental Health Innovations? +
The register records Mental Health Innovations as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Mental Health Innovations's trustees paid? +
Mental Health Innovations's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Mental Health Innovations previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Mental Health Innovations: Mental Health Innovation.
When was Mental Health Innovations registered as a charity? +
Mental Health Innovations was entered on the register on 9 November 2017.
How does CharityCompare score Mental Health Innovations? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Mental Health Innovations's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Mental Health Innovations's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.