St Martin'S Centre For Health And Healing
Charity 1094458
Overview
Summary
St Martin’s Centre for Health and Healing appears to be a charity using counselling as its principal public-facing route to advance health, while retaining a wider charitable mandate spanning poverty relief and Christian principles. Its model combines professional governance, rapid access and tiered pricing, suggesting an attempt to make counselling more reachable without presenting itself solely as a crisis or specialist service. The available evidence indicates a Birmingham-rooted organisation extending its reach through UK-wide online delivery.
Operational geography
Coverage: National
Operational areas:
- City Centre
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre
Confidence: high
The organisation's current website directly identifies an accessible counselling premises at St Martin's in the Bullring and explicitly describes it as being in Birmingham city centre. It publishes face-to-face session times for that premises.
- St Martin's Counselling, "Location and Contact" page
The service states that its premises are at St Martin's in the Bullring and in a pedestrianised area in Birmingham city centre. - St Martin's Counselling, "Location and Contact" page
The page lists face-to-face counselling sessions Monday to Friday, evidencing current direct delivery from the Birmingham premises.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available current evidence supports one physical Birmingham delivery site in the City Centre, but does not evidence routine delivery sites in any other Birmingham ward or recognised place.
- The organisation operates from premises at St Martin's in the Bullring. This demonstrates a practical connection to St Martin's in the Bullring, but the current evidence does not establish a separate partnership that extends delivery into other parts of Birmingham.
- The Charity Commission describes money-management services alongside counselling and psychotherapy, whereas the current public-facing website is principally focused on counselling. It is unclear whether money-management support is currently delivered from the City Centre site, remotely, through referral, or through another arrangement.
- The organisation's website states that it offers online counselling across the UK. This supports a national overall footprint, but does not show where clients are located or whether any Birmingham neighbourhoods receive targeted outreach.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, service report or commissioning information showing the locations and volumes of face-to-face, remote and money-management delivery.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it has outreach, satellite clinics, contracted delivery venues or formal referral partnerships elsewhere in Birmingham.
- Current information on the operational role of St Martin's in the Bullring, including whether it provides premises only or participates in service delivery or referrals.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Access is designed into the counselling model
The organisation appears to treat affordability and speed of entry as core parts of its counselling offer, rather than as secondary concessions. Its tiered pathways may enable people with different means to enter the same broadly professional service.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from services defined only by therapeutic modality or location: it may occupy an access-bridging role between private counselling and more restricted low-cost provision.
Show evidence
“The Standard Pathway costs £35 per session and the Supported Access Pathway costs £25 per session.”
Source:Organisation“90% of clients start within 5 days.”
Source:Organisation“No GP referral is needed.”
Source:Organisation
A charitable identity is being translated into a market-like service structure
The three pathways suggest a deliberate balance between client choice, professional matching and lower-cost access. This may indicate a cross-subsidy or segmentation strategy, although the funding mechanism is not stated.
Why it matters
Understanding this balance is important because it may shape who can access support, how counsellors are allocated and how the charity sustains lower-fee provision.
Show evidence
“The Choice Pathway costs £60 per session and allows clients to choose their counsellor directly.”
Source:Organisation“The Standard Pathway matches clients with a suitable counsellor.”
Source:Organisation“It is a not-for-profit charity offering different pathways to help more people start.”
Source:Organisation
Its current public identity is narrower than its formal charitable remit
Although the charity's objects include poverty relief, Christian principles and wider charitable purposes, the current website is centred on counselling. Money management services are named in the activity description but are not evident in the supplied website material.
Why it matters
This may signal a strategic concentration on counselling, or an under-visible wider support offer. Either possibility matters when assessing the organisation's role and potential connections with poverty, advice and faith-based organisations.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include promoting physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health in accordance with Christian principles and relieving poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include counselling, psychotherapy and money management services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The website presents counselling pathways, counselling specialisms and counselling access information.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether money management services are currently delivered, and to whom.
- How the lower-fee counselling places are funded or allocated.
- Whether Christian principles shape practice, partnerships or eligibility in ways not visible on the website.
- Who uses the service geographically and whether Birmingham-based and online provision serve different communities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports and accounts showing service volumes, income sources, subsidised places and changes over time.
- Information on money management provision, referral routes, partner organisations and beneficiary demographics.
- Evidence of how the organisation applies its Christian mission in service delivery and governance.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The provision of counselling & psychotherapy and money management services working with the disadvantaged and vulnerable.
Charity objects
1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GOOD PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES; 2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY; AND 3. TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH THE PURPOSES SET OUT IN CLAUSES 1 AND 2