Charity Details

Western Isles Association For Mental Health

SC027469Registered charity from 21 January 1998

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Charity Information:

Address 23 Bayhead
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis

Postcode HS1 2DU

Website www.wiamh.org

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

To promote the preservation of mental health and to assist in relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental health disorders or conditions of emotional or mental distress requiring advice or treatment in the Western Isles To advance the education of the public about mental health and all matters pertaining to it

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

Western Isles Association for Mental Health (WIAMH) provides a support service called Catch 23 for adults aged 16+ with lived experience of mental ill health (and their friends, family members and carers). WIAMH provides a range of therapeutic activities for members to participate in designed to help people gain and sustain positive mental health and well-being and support them in their recovery journeys. WIAMH also provides a 'drop-in' service aimed to help people build positive peer support networks, reduce loneliness and social isolation. One of WIAMH’s key strengths is our ability to remain flexible and responsive and adapt Catch 23 service provision in-line with members current identified needs. Catch 23 provides practical support to help meet peoples' basic needs, and emotional support & signposting to help them access services and activities to aid them in their recovery journeys and tools to enable them to improve their mental health & address mental health stigma.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 21 Jan 1998

Main Operating Location: Western Isles

Number of Staff: 7

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of health", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "People with disabilities or health problems"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£135,957	£123,593	10 Jun 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£157,108	£142,437	19 Feb 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£122,316	£171,123	11 Nov 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£191,862	£157,966	06 Nov 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Margaret-anne	Montgomery
Iline	Murray
John	Gillespie
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