Headlight Mental Health Charity

Analysis

Headlight Mental Health Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bath. It was registered in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Headlight Mental Health Charity reported income of £65k and spending of £66k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £189k to £65k (-66%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2026, when income rose by 242%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Headlight Mental Health Charity sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hear Women (£65k), Al Ansar Education and Welfare Trust (£65k) and RTC Sports (£65k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.