Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
Annual Report Year Ending 31 March 2025
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Trustees’ Annual Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2025
The trustees have the pleasure in presenting their annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Reference and Administrative Information
Registered name of charity: Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
Charity Number: SC044891
Registered address
Background
Scottish Perinatal Mental Health Forum was established in 2009 by a group of health and social care professionals who at the time either worked directly with pregnant women or up to 12 months after the birth of their baby or had a particular interest in perinatal mental health. This like-minded group of individuals have over the years championed their local NHS Boards throughout Scotland over the provision of services for women and their families. At the AGM held in August 2015 it was agreed to change the organisations name to Maternal Mental Health Scotland. In June 2022, the organisation changed its name to Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland. The organisation was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) on 29 May 2014, with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
Objectives of the charity:
i) The advancement of education, by the promotion of research and public and professional awareness in perinatal mental health.
ii) The advancement of good perinatal mental health for women and families, by promoting service innovation and quality perinatal mental health care across the health and social care spectrum.
iii) The saving of lives promoting best evidence for prevention, detection and timely treatment for women, who may experience serious mental illness during pregnancy and following childbirth.
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Trustees for year ending 31 March 2025:
Chair Clinical Lead
Treasurer (Non Trustee) Acting Secretary (Non Trustee)
Chair’s Report:
The past year has been a case of working towards winding up the work of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Scotland. We would like to thank all the organisations involved within the perinatal mental health field in Scotland for their support.
We are particularly proud of the role that Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland played in influencing the Scottish Government Programme Board’s final report to the Minister, which included the foundations for legacy planning. We also played a role in forming the purpose and scope of the Scottish Government’s Joint Strategic Board.
We also need to note the impact of user involvement and this was initially driven by the Change Agents, with funding from the SeeMe (anti stigma) initiative.
A decision has also been made by the Trustees, to distribute any leftover funds to the following organisations, who PIMHS have had close links with:
CrossReach (perinatal counselling service)
Lets All Talk North East Mums (LATNEM)
HomeStart (Glasgow North & North Lanarkshire Project)
Juno Perinatal Mental Health Support
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who has acted as a Trustee over the past 11 years, for their tireless efforts in campaigning to improve services to women who have experienced perinatal mental health issues, their partners and families.
Chair & Trustee
10 December 2025
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Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
Statement of Receipts and Payments for Year Ended 31 March 2025 Year ended 31 March 2025 Year Ended 31 March 2024 Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Receipts MMHA Nil £13,884 Scottish Government Nil £19,936.02 Robertson Trust Nil £1,500 University of Dundee Nil £2,441 Fundraising & Donations £1.528.25 Nil Sub Totals £1,528.25 Nil Total Receipts £1,528.25 £37,761.02 Payments Salaries &Wages i £6,750.12 £55,937.52 Pension, NI &PAYE ii £2,461.30 £13,681.63 SCVO Payroll £254.18 £779.36 Cattanach iii £12,096.21 Nil Conference/Meetings Nil £656.20 Employer Liability Insurance Nil £758.52 Website costs iv £6,484.77 £95.99 Office equipment/ Stationary/mobile £2,245.88 £3,671.23 phone expenses IT Support £185.38 £1,119.96 Expenses Nil £1,424.71 Sub Totals £8,916.03 £21,561.81 Total Payments £30,477.84 £78,125.12
Cont...
Payments exceeded Receipts for year ended 31 March 2025 by £28,949.59 Money brought forward at 1 April 2024, £53,461.25 in bank
Money at year end, 31 March 2025, £24,511.66 in bank
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Notes:
i) Communication Officer whose contract expired on 31 March 2024, was pregnant when she left our employment. We made a statutory payment to her for maternity pay.
ii) HMRC payments that we pay in arrears for employees who were employed by PIMHS in the last quarter of 2023/24.
iii) Repayment of unused funding that has been returned to Cattanach (Charitable funder).
iv) Payments that covered web design, maintenance and hosting fees.
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lison Lairns APPENDIX 3 U5LR Scottish Charity Regulator Independent examiner's report on the accounts V2 Report to the ,' Charity name trusteeslmembers of .Parent & Infant Mental Health Scotland Registered charity ' SC044891 number On the accounts of the charty for the period Period start date Month April Period end date Month March Day Year 2024 Oay Year To 2025 Set out on pages Iremernber to Snclude the page nurnber$ of additional sheetsl Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance ! responsibilities of with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the trustees and examiner Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10{1) {d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent My examination is carried out in accordan with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts examiner's Statement Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the eviden that would be required in an audit and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. Independent examiner's In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention [0th ststement disclosed on the a JathEd page"] which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements.. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) {a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations an have not been met, or 2. to which, in my o n, attention should be drawn in order tffenable a proper Iindarot9ndin f thp ?tsrniint¢ tn bp raanhgd Signed": Name". Relevant professional qualificationls) or body lif any): 12.2025 Address: 'Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. If the words do apply. set out those matters which have come to your attention on the following page. . OSCR will ap1 digital or typed signatures