WATFORD AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
Registered charity 1004431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATFORD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS, WATFORD MENCAP
Watford Mencap currently provides the following services:Residential Homes, Supported Living and Individualised Living , Learning and Leisure, Children's Activities Clubs and Playschemes, Community Support, Domiciliary Care, Day and College Activity Schemes, Advice and InformationThese services are provided to over 800 service users in Watford, Three Rivers and Hertsmere
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounting statements; it consists solely of repeated Docusign envelope identifiers and a date. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Watford Mencap (matched by registered charity number).
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- LYNCH, Amanda — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
- WHITTON, Annie — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
- WEBB, Bryan — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
- SMART ALSO KNOWN AS DAWKINS, Beverley — director, appointed 20/09/2025not on trustee list
- MAZRAEH, Neda — director, appointed 05/10/2024on trustee list
- COWAP, Nicola Anne, Dr — director, appointed 21/10/2023on trustee list
- GOOD, John William — director, appointed 25/06/2022on trustee list
- GREEN, Lynn Christina — director, appointed 09/10/2007on trustee list
- TEAGUE, James Russell — director, appointed 05/07/2000not on trustee list
- PATTINSON, Jane Katrina — secretary, appointed 08/04/2022
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Watford And District Mencap Society — Registered, 5 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 16/02/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£60k
Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Care Quality Commission ratings
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Register events
- Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (27/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Amanda Lynch
- Annie Whitton
- Beverley Smart also known as Dawkins
- Bryan Webb
- John Good
- Lynn GREEN
- MR RUSS TEAGUE · trustee of 1 other charity
- Neda Mazraeh
- Nicola Cowap
- Pauline JOY
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Hertfordshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is WATFORD AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounting statements; it consists solely of repeated Docusign envelope identifiers and a date. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.
Who funds WATFORD AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name WATFORD AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY as a grant recipient include THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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