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2025-07-31-accounts

Charity registration number: 1190515

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025

Chartered Accountants

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

CONTENTS (CONTINUED)

Reference and Administrative Details 1
Trustees' Report 2 to 8
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities 9
Independent Examiner's Report 10
Statement of Financial Activities 11
Balance Sheet 12
Notes to the Financial Statements 13 to 22

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Chairman Professor Martin Marshall
Honorary President Lord Alan Thomas Howarth of Newport CBE (appointed 19 July
2024)
Trustees Mr William Andrew Boa
Ms Professor Helen Jane Chatterjee MBE
Prof Martin Green OBE
Ms Debbie Teale
Dr Guddi Viyaya Rani Singh
Mr David Charles Clayton-Smith
Mrs Nancy Jane Juliet Hey
Ms Isabelle Ann Paagman
Ms Jane Eiluned Thomas
Professor Martin Marshall
Senior Management / Ms A Coulter, Director
Leadership Team
Charity Registration Number 1190515
Principal Office PO Box 948
Oxford
OX1 9TY
Independent Examiner H E Jones BA (Hons) FCCA
Edwards and Keeping Limited
Chartered Accountants
Unity Chambers
34 High East Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1HA

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TRUSTEES' REPORT

The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025.

Chair's Report

I am delighted to introduce the Annual Report for the National Centre for Creative Health for 2024/25, my first year as Chair of the charity. The organisation has continued to go from strength to strength, making a compelling case for the contribution of creative activities to improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities.

'Our First Three Years' impact report, published in February 2024, described how our work is making a difference by influencing policy, health and care services and activities within local communities. This important publication sets the tone for our work, a relentless focus on how engagement with creative activities can improve lives.

Over the last year we have responded to the priorities laid out by the Labour Government. Their focus on a mission-led approach and further devolution to Metro Mayors provides fertile ground for the recommendations in our Creative Health Review, published in December 2023. We provide the secretariat for the re-launched All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health and have held roundtables in parliament on Prevention and Children and Young People's mental health.

Our Research and Policy Manager, Hannah Waterson, prepared policy briefings and evidence summaries which have been sent to the relevant ministers in the Department for Education, Department for Health and Social Care, and Department for Culture, Media and Sport. With fellow trustee, Professor Helen Chatterjee, I met ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions to discuss how creative health approaches can support the government's ambitions as set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper. We will continue to advocate for creative health across government in the context of the current changes to health services infrastructure and the renewed focus on prevention and neighbourhood health in the recently published 10 Year Health Plan.

In March 2025 our two-year Creative Health Associates programme concluded. Funded by Arts Council England, the programme has had a significant impact in spreading creative health in systems across the country, a core element of our mission to 'help foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems'. The evaluation of this programme has given us valuable insights into the potential for strategic creative health roles to contribute to the priorities of Integrated Care Systems and will inform our work in this area.

Our on-going partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and colleagues at UCL on the £30m Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities research programme provides us with opportunities to share learning via blogs and joint events. The 12 projects are now well established and involve community partners, community researchers and experts by experience who provide a rich resource for knowledge exchange between partners and with the wider audience the NCCH reaches.

In the past year we have had a greater focus on expanding the reach and scope of our communications. As part of the Creative Health Associates Programme, we have worked with a Communications consultant to develop our communications for health and care professionals, including a dedicated newsletter and a new 'How' section on our website. We had a campaign on creative health and Children and Young People's mental health to coincide with the APPG roundtable in June. This resulted in over a 1000 new followers on social media and a 179% increase in impressions compared to the previous two months. We are continuing to deliver more communications activity and welcomed Radhika Poojara as our freelance Communications Officer in May. Our thanks to Jane Thomas, our trustee with a background in communications and marketing, who has been helping us develop our communications strategy and action plan.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

I would also like to thank our trustee and expert by experience, Debs Teale. Debs has been supporting the staff and trustees to consider equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging. In July we launched an outreach activity to engage more diverse voices. This followed on from a research project on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in creative health conducted by one of the students on the Creative Health Masters at UCL. We are also working with two other students on the Creative Health Masters on their dissertations, one on commissioning and funding for creative health, and the other on education and training.

I am enormously grateful to all our trustees who bring exceptional expertise and energy to NCCH, those I have already mentioned plus Bill Boa, Nancy Hey, David Clayton-Smith, Martin Green, and Guddi Singh. I also sincerely thank our core funders, the Oak Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Baring Foundation, as well as to our programme funders, Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Without their vision, trust and support we would not be able to deliver our mission.

We are delighted to announce that David Shrigley, the artist whose illustrations have provided the visual identity for creative health since 2017, has agreed to become a patron of the NCCH. Thank you to our trustee Isabelle Paagman, for supporting this process as we look to engage with other high profile patrons to support our communications efforts.

On behalf of all the trustees I would like to thank our dedicated staff. Alex Coulter continues to lead to lead the charity thoughtfully, energetically and passionately. Alexis Butt, our General Manager, and Jayne Howard, our Programme Manager, anchor us through their efficiency. Sarah Holmes has ensured that we maintain proper financial control in all our work. In July we said goodbye to Dr Hannah Waterson after three and a half years as our Research and Policy Manager. We are delighted to welcome Dr Jane Hearst, previously the Creative Health Associates Manager for the Midlands, as our new Research and Policy Manager and we are confident she will continue and develop Hannah’s excellent work.

We are proud of the difference that the NCCH has made over the last year to the creative health field and excited by the opportunities that lie ahead.

Director's Report

The Mission of the National Centre for Creative Health is to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping to foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. Our objectives are:

We have continued to make progress against the intermediate outcomes in our Theory of Change, towards the overall goal of creative health supporting a healthy and health creating society with people living healthier and happier lives. We work in partnership and alongside many others to advance this goal. Our Charitable Object is: To advance health and wellbeing by supporting the provision of art, culture and creativity.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

With regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance, the NCCH aims to benefit the general public through our work with health systems and providers across England. We work in collaboration and in partnership with others to ensure that we have an ‘asset-based’ approach to supporting communities and individuals to engage with the arts, culture and creativity for the benefit of their health and wellbeing. We continue to work in collaborative partnerships with Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across England. Integrated Care Systems bring together health and care organisations from the statutory and non-statutory sector to improve the accessibility, responsiveness, quality, and effectiveness of health, care, and wellbeing services to local populations. The Charity is able to work with multiple systems to facilitate collaborative working, shared understanding, and consistency for the benefit of the local residents of those systems.

This annual report covers the NCCH’s financial year from August 2024 to July 2025. We have benefited from core funding from Oak Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Baring Foundation. We continued to receive funding from University College London for our role in the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities research programme. This funding covers 60% of the Research and Policy Manager Post and 25% of the Director's post. Arts Council England funding for the Creative Health Associates Programme continued through this period, although the income from the grant is recorded in the 2022-2023 annual report.

Activities and Outcomes

The Creative Health Associates Programme was extended from the original end date of October 2024 until March 2025. The seven Associates provided an important route to disseminating good practice and research to support the development of creative health strategies and increased understanding within health and care systems. There were, predictably, many challenges for them working in complex systems undergoing constant change, but we were encouraged by the reception and support they found, often within Population Health and Health Inequalities teams, where the potential for creative health solutions was readily understood in many areas. Each Associate worked with their host Integrated Care Board (ICB) as well as with other ICBs in their region to varying degrees, depending on where they found most interest and traction.

The evaluation of the Creative Health Associates Programme has provided us with key learnings for the next phase. Associates were able to identify and build on opportunities to embed creative health and in several areas supported the development of strategies, either stand alone creative health strategies or creative health as part of other strategies within health inequalities and population health. The Associates were effective in finding and connecting people and in supporting new networks to develop. The focus in the new 10 year NHS Plan on integrated neighbourhood teams, prevention at both primary and secondary level and a shift from hospital to community should provide fertile territory for creative health development going forward. One of the central challenges is funding for creative health work and the Associates gathered information on existing structures. We commissioned a short study and report from the North of England Commissioning Support Unit into the opportunities and barriers to commissioning creative health within the NHS.

The Creative Health Associates delivered the second phase of the Huddles Programme funded by The Baring Foundation. Huddles are inter-disciplinary learning activities to explore co-production and creativity as a way to change or enhance mental health services. 25 Huddles were delivered in total with a wide range of stakeholders including mental health services, community providers, cultural organisations, artists and people with lived experience of mental health services. We worked with two young people with lived experience of mental health services to evaluate the Huddles programme.

The Huddles Programme evaluation identified a range of impacts including organisations building a theory of change from a Huddle; acknowledgement of the benefits on people's mental health from taking part in a Huddle, as well as validation and capacity building through lived experience involvement; and the impact on power shifting in working with people with lived experience to shape something upstream. The importance of having time to build trust with organisations and with those who have access to the individuals who have used services; the need to clearly articulate the purpose of the Huddle; the right skill set for delivery of a Huddle; and a focus on continuous learning and improvement, were all highlighted as learning from the programme. This will inform the next phase of co-production work.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

The Chair of the Creative Health Champions Network has been leading a review of the purpose and membership of the Network. The Network has focussed on senior leaders at board level but we recognise that there can be leadership at different places within a system and so the criteria for joining it is being expanded. The network has continued to grow and now has 85 members from 35 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). In the previous year it was 80 in 31 ICSs. This network will be increasingly important as we develop our work with ICSs over the coming year.

In March to July 2025 we significantly increased our communications activity with a particular focus on health and care audiences. On the basis of insight perception research by a Communications consultant we have developed a new section on our website on 'How", to inform people working in health and care as managers, commissioners and clinicians, how they can implement creative health in their work. We now have a series of short guides and evidence summaries aimed at this key audience and a monthly newsletter specifically for them. These guides often lead them to the Creative Health Toolkit which has more detailed information and lots of short illustrative examples.

The Creative Health Toolkit has received over 35,000 views since its launch in January 2024, with 15,918 of those since July 2024 as well as 4000 new users. We have a series of videos which are intended to provide peer to peer encouragement for health care professionals. The communications consultant supported us to deliver a focussed campaign on children and young people's mental health and creative health in the period from May to July 2025. We have employed a freelance communications officer one day a week and she is now supporting all the work related to health and care audiences.

Policy

In the period from July 2024 to June 2025 we continued to disseminate the Creative Health Review. The Creative Health Review has been viewed online 10,744 times since August 2024 and downloaded 1,644 times. 16 hard copies have been sold. We have sent hard copies with letters from the Chair of the APPG and the Chair of the NCCH to all relevant Secretaries of State in the new Government. In a response from the office of the Duchy of Lancaster, they emphasised the cross-government missions led approach, although didn't commit to a cross-government strategy. Reports and a letter also went to 14 Metro Mayors. Two of the Commissioners on the Creative Health Review, Tracy Brabin and Rob Webster, have quoted the Review in their announcement that West Yorkshire will become a 'Creative Health System'. The Combined Authority has recently released information about a tender for delivering this with a budget of just under £1 million.

We participated in a roundtable on mental health in schools organised by the DfE and producing a policy and evidence review for them; a meeting with two Ministers in DWP and a policy briefing on how creative health can contribute to the Get Britain Working agenda. We provide the secretariat for the new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health which had its inaugural meeting in November 2024 and we have organised two roundtable events in parliament. The first, in February, was on Prevention and the Minister for Public Health spoke at it. The most recent event was on Children and Young People's Mental Health and we have produced a policy briefing as well as sent letters to Ministers in DHSC and DfE with 19 signatories including the Mayor of West Yorkshire, Baroness Morris of Yardley, Professor Daisy Fancourt, and Baroness Morgan of Cotes. Dr Simon Opher MP, Chair of the APPG on Creative Health, raised creative health as a solution for reducing waiting lists in PMQ's in June.

Research

Our research partnership on the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme has continued over this time period. The funded projects around the UK are only just beginning to publish information and the full findings won't be available until spring 2027 at the earliest. We have interacted with certain projects more than others including the Arts4Us project led by Edge Hill University which is focussed on children and young people's mental health and the arts; the Coastal Communities project led by University of Liverpool and University of Bristol; and Making Every Community Asset Count: improving health and reducing inequalities for people experiencing homelessness, led by Northumbria University.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

Impact

Our first evaluation for the organisation 'Our First Three Years' 2021-2024, which covers the three years prior to the time period covered by this grant forms a very useful baseline assessment against which we can evaluate our work going forward. We launched the evaluation report at a Funders' Meeting hosted by The Baring Foundation in February 2025 which was attended by our other core funders, the Oak Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and by project funders AHRC and Arts Council England. The feedback on the organisation's progress at the meeting was very positive.

Structure, governance and management

The Charity is overseen by a board of trustees, currently ten. In July, Nancy Hey was voted in for a second term of three years. Trustees meet four times a year for board meetings and have annual one to one meetings with the Chair. The Charity is managed by the Director, who meets with the Chair every four weeks. The General Manager, Programme Manager, Research and Policy Manager and Finance Officer report to the Director.

New trustees are recruited with an open advertisement disseminated via our networks as well as through contacts known to existing board members. Applicants are then shortlisted and interviewed by the Director, Chair and one other trustee. New trustees receive an induction pack and handbook. Trustees have an annual one-to-one meeting with the Chair.

We have made some progress on our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging policy and action plan. Debs Teale, one of our trustees who is a Lived Experience Expert, has been working with us to develop our plans. We have sent out a short questionnaire to encourage people who would like to connect with us, which we hope will lead to a group of critical friends who we can bring in (paid work) to inform our work in various ways.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

Public benefit

The trustees have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit, which is achieved through the following charity's activities:-

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Financial review

Total income for the year was £394,092 (2024 - £159,959), of which £276,492 was restricted (2024 - £68,950). Expenditure for the year totalled £570,317 (2024 - £555,640), of which £460,123 was restricted (2024 - £495,496). Net expenditure for the year was £176,225 (2024 - 395,681).

As at 31 July 2025 total funds amounted to £133,871 (2024 - £310,096), of which £30,471 (2024 - £214,102) were restricted leaving unrestricted reserves of £103,400 (2024 - £95,994).

Policy on reserves

At 31 July 2025 unrestricted reserves were £103,400 (2024 - £95,994).

NCCH maintains free unrestricted reserves:

• to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work – this will be equivalent to three months of committed operating expenditure.

• to provide a level of funding for unexpected opportunities – this will be determined annually as budgets are approved and will be expressed as a % of income or absolute sum.

• to provide cover for risks such as unforeseen expenditure or unanticipated loss of income – this will be determined annually as budgets are approved and will be expressed as a % of income or absolute sum.

The Board of Trustees will review the above criteria with reference to NCCH’s strategy and Annual Plan and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these.

The Board of Trustees will at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.

Principal funding sources

The charity's principal funding sources are grants provided by other charities. The funding provided by these grants is used to meet both operational expenditure for the charity and to finance projects that further the charity's charitable objectives.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED)

Trustees and officers

The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:

Chairman: Professor Martin Marshall Honorary President: Lord Alan Thomas Howarth of Newport CBE (appointed 19 July 2024)

Trustees: Prof. Martin Marshall, Chair of Trustees - Appointed July 2024 Bill Boa - Appointed July 2020 Prof. Helen Chatterjee - Appointed July 2020 David Clayton-Smith - Appointed April 2021 Dr. Guddi Singh - Appointed April 2021 Debbie Teale - Appointed April 2021 Prof. Martin Green OBE - Appointed June 2021 Nancy Hey - Appointed January 2022 Jane Thomas - Appointed January 2024 Isabelle Paagman - Appointed January 2024

Officers: Alex Coulter, Director Hannah Waterson, Research and Policy Manager Alexis Butt, General Manager

Structure, governance and management

Nature of governing document

National Centre for Creative Health is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation governed by a Constitution adopted and registered with the Charity Commission on 21 July 2020.

Recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees manage the affairs of the CIO. There must be at least three charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees or appoint a new charity trustee.

Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of charity trustees.

In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.

Induction and training of trustees

The charity trustees will make available to each new trustee a copy of the current version of the constitution, plus a copy of the CIO's latest trustees' annual report and statement of accounts.

22/05/2026

The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on ... 95D50000-D245-72AB-FEB5-08DEB6799178 ................. and signed on its behalf by:

95D50000-D245-72AB-FEAD-08DEB6799178 Professor Martin Marshall Chairman and Trustee

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.

The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Approved by the trustees of the charity on .................... 22/05/2026 and signed on its behalf by:

95D50000-D245-72AB-FEC2-08DEB6799178

95D50000-D245-72AB-FEB9-08DEB6799178 Professor Martin Marshall Chairman and Trustee

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the period ended 31 July 2025 which are set out on pages 11 to 22.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of National Centre for Creative Health you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the National Centre for Creative Health's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

Since National Centre for Creative Health's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of ACCA, which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of National Centre for Creative Health as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

~~........~~ ............................... 95D50000-D245-72AB-FEDB-08DEB6799178 H E Jones BA (Hons) FCCA Chartered Accountants Unity Chambers 34 High East Street Dorchester Dorset DT1 1HA

22/05/2026

Date:...... ~~....~~ 95D50000-D245-72AB-FEDF-08DEB6799178 ...................

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025

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Note
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Other trading activities
4
Investment income
5
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
6
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
14
Note
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Other trading activities
4
Investment income
5
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
6
Total expenditure
Net income/(expenditure)
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
14		 Unrestricted
funds
£
108,800
8,186
176
438
117,600
(110,194)
7,406
95,994
103,400
Unrestricted
funds
£
50,000
40,444
80
485
91,009
(60,144)
(60,144)
30,865
30,865
65,129
95,994		 Restricted
funds
£
180,000
96,492
-
-
276,492
(460,123)
(183,631)
214,102
30,471
Restricted
funds
£
-
68,950
-
-
68,950
(495,496)
(495,496)
(426,546)
(426,546)
640,648
214,102		 Total
2025
£
288,800
104,678
176
438
394,092
(570,317)
(176,225)
310,096
133,871
Total
2024
£
50,000
109,394
80
485
159,959
(555,640)
(555,640)
(395,681)
(395,681)
705,777
310,096

All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for 2024 is shown in note 14.

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(REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1190515) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 JULY 2025

Note
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
10
Current assets
Debtors
11
Cash at bank and in hand
12
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
13
Net current assets
Net assets
Funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds
Restricted funds
Unrestricted income funds
Unrestricted funds
Total funds
14		 2025
£
253
26,380
179,293
205,673
(72,055)
133,618
133,871
30,471
103,400
133,871		 2024
£
359
193,985
134,630
328,615
(18,878)
309,737
310,096
214,102
95,994
310,096

The financial statements on pages 11 to 22 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue 22/05/2026 on .................... and signed on their behalf by:

95D50000-D245-72AB-FECA-08DEB6799178

~~Professo~~ 95D50000-D245-72AB-FEC8-08DEB6799178 r Martin Marshall Chairman and Trustee

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025

1 Accounting policies

Statement of compliance

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the second edition of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice issued in October 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.

Basis of preparation

National Centre for Creative Health meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.

Going concern

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Income and endowments

Voluntary income including donations, gifts, legacies and grants that provide core funding or are of a general nature is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Donations and legacies

Donations are recognised when the charity has been notified in writing of both the amount and settlement date. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance by the charity before the charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of the charity and it is probable that these conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.

Grants receivable

Grants are recognised when the charity has an entitlement to the funds and any conditions linked to the grants have been met. Where performance conditions are attached to the grant and are yet to be met, the income is recognised as a liability and included on the balance sheet as deferred income to be released.

Investment income

Dividends are recognised once the dividend has been declared and notification has been received of the dividend due.

Charitable activities

Comprises income received in exchange for goods or services delivered as part of charitable activities performed, and is recognised in the Accounts to the extent that such goods or services have been provided.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

Expenditure

All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.

Raising funds

These are costs incurred in attracting voluntary income, the management of investments and those incurred in trading activities that raise funds.

Charitable activities

Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.

Support costs

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example, allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.

Governance costs

These include the costs attributable to the charity’s compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements, including audit, strategic management and trustees meetings and reimbursed expenses.

Government grants

Government grants are recognised based on the accrual model and are measured at the fair value of the asset received or receivable. Grants are classified as relating either to revenue or to assets. Grants relating to revenue are recognised in income over the period in which the related costs are recognised. Grants relating to assets are recognised over the expected useful life of the asset. Where part of a grant relating to an asset is deferred, it is recognised as deferred income.

Taxation

The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.

Tangible fixed assets

Individual fixed assets costing £500 or more are initially recorded at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

Depreciation and amortisation

Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows:

Asset class Office equipment

Depreciation method and rate 20% Straight Line

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.

Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the charity will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the Statement of Financial Activities over the period of the relevant borrowing.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the charity has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Fund structure

Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.

Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.

Pensions and other post retirement obligations

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme which is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the charity has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

2 Income from donations and legacies

Donations and legacies;
Donations
Grants, including capital grants;
Grants from other charities
Total for 2025
Total for 2024		 Unrestricted
funds
General
£
4,467
104,333
108,800
50,000		 Restricted
funds
£
-
180,000
180,000
-		 Total
funds
£
4,467
284,333
288,800
50,000

3 Income from charitable activities

Exhibitions
Contractual income
Contractual income
Contractual income
Contractual income
Total for 2025
Total for 2024		 Unrestricted
funds
General
£
511
-
-
-
7,675
8,186
40,444		 Restricted
funds
£
-
269
96,063
160
-
96,492
68,950		 Total
funds
£
511
269
96,063
160
7,675
104,678
109,394

4 Income from other trading activities

Trading income;
Sales of goods and services
Total for 2025
Total for 2024
5
Investment income
Interest receivable on bank deposits
Total for 2025
Total for 2024		 Unrestricted
funds
General
£
176
176
80
Unrestricted
funds
General
£
438
438
485		 Total
funds
£
176
176
80
Total
funds
£
438
438
485

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

6 Expenditure

Unrestricted

Unrestricted
Note
Staff costs
8
Freelance costs
Staff training
Insurance
Telephone
Sundry expenses
Advertising
Fundraising costs
Depreciation of
office equipment
Independent
Examiner’s
remuneration
Postage and
Stationery
Computer and
website costs
Bookkeeping
Travel and
subsistence
Rent
Accessability
support
Meeting costs
Legal and
professional fees
Bank charges
Recruitment costs
Conference costs		 General
£
72,687
100
1,396
147
-
681
733
-
-
6,726
3,726
2,091
9,710
6,401
4,434
-
1,302
-
60
-
-
110,194		 Restricted
£
298,821
49,369
997
447
110
929
4,774
-
106
1,200
5,388
5,370
1,100
10,559
168
2,880
3,273
74,087
-
545
-
460,123		 Total
2025
£
371,508
49,469
2,393
594
110
1,610
5,507
-
106
7,926
9,114
7,461
10,810
16,960
4,602
2,880
4,575
74,087
60
545
-
570,317		 Total
2024
£
434,614
41,744
4,709
571
372
582
2,136
40
90
4,482
13,805
3,970
9,295
21,967
2,982
736
4,491
4,022
61
-
4,971
555,640

Legal and professional fees include significant business consultancy costs in the year, alongside HR and communications services expenses.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

7 Trustees remuneration and expenses

During the year the charity made the following transactions with trustees:

Ms Debbie Teale

£559 (2024: £776) of expenses were reimbursed to Ms Debbie Teale during the year.

Expenses reimbursed relate to expenses incurred in travelling to and from Trustees meetings.

During the year an invoice was raised by the Trustee of £565.

No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.

8 Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:

Staff costs during the year were:
Wages and salaries
Pension costs (defined contribution)		 2025
£
358,079
13,429
371,508		 2024
£
423,021
11,593
434,614

The monthly average number of persons employed by the charity during the year was as follows:

Employees 2025
No
9		 2024
No
11

There was a subsequent fall of employees at the end of the Creative Health Associates programme in March 2025.

The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £171,471 (2024 - £150,893).

The Director, as the highest paid member of staff, received benefits totalling £63,323 (2024 - £51,392).

9 Independent examiner's remuneration

Examination of the financial statements
Other fees to examiners
All other services		 2025
£
1,200
6,726		 2024
£
1,012
3,470

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

10 Tangible fixed assets

10 Tangible fixed assets
Cost
At 1 August 2024
At 31 July 2025
Depreciation
At 1 August 2024
Charge for the year
At 31 July 2025
Net book value
At 31 July 2025
At 31 July 2024
11 Debtors
Trade debtors
Prepayments
Accrued income
Other debtors
12 Cash and cash equivalents
Cash at bank
13 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Other taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals		 Furniture and
equipment
£
530
530
171
106
277
253
359
2025
£
20,986
732
4,662
-
26,380
2025
£
179,293
2025
£
3,833
2,646
60,267
5,309
72,055		 Total
£
530
530
171
106
277
253
359
2024
£
41,458
644
150,383
1,500
530
171
106
277
253
359
2025
£
20,986
732
4,662
-
26,380
2025
£
179,293
2025
£
3,833
2,646
60,267
5,309
72,055
193,985
2024
£
134,630
2024
£
4,049
11,179
-
3,650
18,878

Other creditors consists of deferred grant income, received before the year end but deferred to the following year.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

14 Funds
Unrestricted
General
Core
Hubs
Oak Foundation
Foundation
Reserves
The Baring Foundation
Restricted
The Baring Foundation
(Huddles)
The Baring Foundation
(Event)
UCL/AHRC Mobilising
Community Assets
Arts Council England -
Creative Health
Associates
Art Council England -
Creative Health
Associates Ext
Total funds		 Balance at
1 August
2024
£
54,452
539
6,003
35,000
-
95,994
8,745
400
15,295
189,662
-
214,102
310,096		 Incoming
resources
£
26,600
-
56,000
-
35,000
117,600
-
-
96,063
160
180,269
276,492
394,092		 Resources
expended
£
(27,041)
(131)
(58,022)
10,000
(35,000)
(110,194)
(3,943)
-
(85,245)
(190,203)
(180,732)
(460,123)
(570,317)		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(400)
19
381
-
-
-		 Balance at
31 July
2025
£
54,011
408
3,981
45,000
-
103,400
4,802
-
26,132
-
(463)
30,471
133,871

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

Unrestricted funds
General
Core
Hubs
Oak Foundation
Reserves
Restricted funds
All-Party Parlimentary
Group on Arts, Health and
Wellbeing
The Baring Foundation
(Huddles)
South West Yorkshire
NHS Foundation Trust
The Baring Foundation
(Event)
The Baring Foundation
(PR support)
UCL/AHRC Mobilising
Community Assets
Arts Council England -
Creative Health
Associates
Total funds		 Balance at
1 August
2023
£
33,514
3,984
2,631
25,000
65,129
1,134
39,162
4,000
12,000
2,300
8,987
573,065
640,648
705,777		 Incoming
resources
£
41,009
-
50,000
-
91,009
-
-
-
-
-
67,765
1,185
68,950
159,959		 Resources
expended
£
(10,071)
(3,445)
(46,628)
-
(60,144)
(1,134)
(30,417)
(4,000)
(11,600)
(2,300)
(61,457)
(384,588)
(495,496)
(555,640)		 Transfers
£
(10,000)
-
-
10,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance at
31 July
2024
£
54,452
539
6,003
35,000
95,994
-
8,745
-
400
-
15,295
189,662
214,102
310,096

Restricted funds arise when specified by the funder or when funds are raised for particular restricted projects or activities. Expenditure which meets the restricted criteria is charged to that fund, together with a fair allocation of support and administrative costs. Insofar that expenditure charged to restricted funds exceeds monies received, transfers may be made from unrestricted funds to cover any deficit that would otherwise arise.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025 (CONTINUED)

15 Analysis of net assets between funds

15 Analysis of net assets between funds
Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets		 Unrestricted
funds
General
£
-
172,636
(69,236)
103,400
Unrestricted
funds
General
£
-
102,509
(6,515)
95,994		 Restricted
funds
£
253
33,039
(2,821)
30,471
Restricted
funds
£
359
226,107
(12,364)
214,102		 Total funds
at 31 July
2025
£
253
205,675
(72,057)
133,871
Total funds
at 31 July
2024
£
359
328,616
(18,879)
310,096

16 Related party transactions

One of the trustees, Professor Helen Chatterjee, is employed by University College London and is the AHRC programme Director for Health Inequalities, leading the Mobilising Community Assets research programme on behalf of UKRI. UCL and AHRC provide grant funding to National Centre for Creative Health. Details of this fund can be found in Note 14 (above).

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