THE MACULAR DISEASE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1001198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MACULAR SOCIETY · also registered in Scotland as SC042015 (OSCR)

Beating the fear and isolation of macular disease with world-class research, and the best advice and support.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the period with a satisfactory financial position, holding unrestricted reserves of £3,942k against a minimum reserve policy target of £2m. Per the trustees' report, the surplus for the year was £1,154k, though this is not believed to reflect a longer-term shift in the balance between income and expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Macular Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Erika Kennington — Director of Research (source)
• Zac Shaw — Patron (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Kate Rowland
• David Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Derrick Chow
• Jagdeep Singh
• Jennifer Wall
• Louise Perry
• Muhammad Ameen Memon
• Neal Trup
• Robert Patrick Richardson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIGHT RESEARCH UK.

• SIGHT RESEARCH UK income £871k
• FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS income £2.7m
• THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY income £410k
• ACTION AGAINST AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION income £122k
• RETINA UK income £2.2m
• THE FRIENDS OF MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.