College Of Healing Limited
Charity 519085
Overview
Summary
College Of Healing appears to operate primarily as a standards-oriented training and professional-development body within complementary healing, rather than as a direct care provider. Its role combines public education, practitioner formation, ongoing professional development and a graduate-facing community infrastructure. The organisation presents healing as complementary to conventional healthcare while emphasising boundaries, ethics and self-management, suggesting that its distinctive contribution is to make a loosely regulated practice more structured, accountable and professionally connected.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but neither the current annual report nor the organisation's website identifies a Birmingham venue, ward or neighbourhood for courses, services or administration.
- The College's 2024-25 annual report states that it supported 11 Foundation Courses delivered by College-accredited facilitators, but does not give their locations. It is therefore unclear whether any were delivered in Birmingham.
- The organisation's current named course venues are in Malvern and West Malvern. The Charity Commission also records that it does not own or lease land or property, so there is no evidence of a permanent Birmingham site.
- Membership of UK Healers and the Confederation of Healing Organisations, and the College's practitioner directory, indicate professional-network reach but do not evidence that the College itself currently delivers activity at a specific Birmingham location.
Additional evidence needed
- A current course calendar or booking records identifying the venues and dates of Foundation, Practitioner, Advanced Healing and CPD courses delivered or administratively supported in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from the College of whether Birmingham City in its Charity Commission return refers to current direct delivery, accredited facilitators, members/practitioners, beneficiaries, or a historic operational area.
- Details of any active Birmingham-based delivery partners, accredited facilitators or practitioner arrangements that are formally operated or commissioned by the College.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
It is building a professional pathway, not only teaching courses
The available evidence suggests the College uses training as the entry point to a longer practitioner ecosystem: students progress from foundation learning to a two-year practitioner course, then into membership, a healer directory and continuing professional development.
Why it matters
This helps explain its likely influence: the College may shape practice beyond individual courses by setting expectations for graduates over time and making practitioners visible through a shared community.
Show evidence
“The Practitioner Course runs over 2 years and graduates can become Practitioner Members listed in the Healer Directory.”
Source:Organisation“The College provides Continuing Professional Development courses for healing graduates.”
Source:Organisation
Its central strategy appears to be legitimacy through standards and boundaries
The College appears to position ethical conduct, safeguarding and reflective self-development as core mechanisms for professionalising complementary healing practice.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from providers that simply promote healing techniques. Its role may be as much about reducing perceived risks and establishing practitioner norms as about teaching a modality.
Show evidence
“The College describes its training as professional, ethical and focused on safe and competent healing practice.”
Source:Organisation“Its Practitioner Course teaches boundaries, protection and grounding in the Healer-Client relationship.”
Source:Organisation“Its charitable objects include advancing education for people seeking to treat physical and psychological illness and disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation bridges personal wellbeing and wider health practice
It appears to frame healing both as self-care for the public and as a complementary practice intended to sit alongside conventional health interventions, rather than replace them.
Why it matters
This dual positioning may broaden its reach, but it also creates an important question about how clearly its public-facing wellbeing offer is separated from claims about treatment and healthcare outcomes.
Show evidence
“The Foundation Course introduces self-healing, meditation, distant-healing and contact-healing.”
Source:Organisation“Healing may be used alongside conventional medical treatment and does not replace professional medical care.”
Source:Organisation“Its mission is to support the outcomes of interventions including surgery, medication and complementary therapies.”
Source:Organisation
- There is no evidence of the number, location or characteristics of learners, graduates or people receiving healing.
- It is unclear whether the College has active partnerships with healthcare organisations, despite its stated complementary-health positioning.
- No evidence describes governance, safeguarding processes, financial model or how practitioner standards are monitored after qualification.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or impact data showing learner numbers, graduate destinations, beneficiary reach and outcomes.
- Details of practitioner accreditation, complaints, safeguarding and quality-assurance processes.
- Evidence of formal collaborations or referral relationships with health, disability or community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The College provides training courses in healing and self development to members of the public. It also provides Continuing Professional Development courses for healing graduates of the college.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE SICKNESS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS SEEKING TO PROVIDE TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESS AND DISABILITIES AND IN PARTICULAR INSOFAR AS THE SAME SHALL BE EFFICACIOUS TO ACHIVE SUCH RELIEF, TO PROMOTE IN CONJUNCTION WITH ORTHODOX MEDICAL PRACTICE SYSTEMS OF HEALING COMPLEMENTARY TO IT.