MAIDSTONE MENCAP CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1009677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAIDSTONE MENCAP CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

We provide a playschool, Junior Gateway, Holiday club and Senior Gateway club for children/adults with learning disabilities in the Maidstone area.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THE FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE."LEARNING DISABILITY" MEANS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWSOEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MILD, MODERATE OR SEVERE...

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £5,041 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £210,082 and total expenditure of £205,041. Unrestricted reserves stood at £242,749, which is above the stated policy target of six months' running costs (£50,000). However, the trustees note that the loss of National Lottery funding creates a potential income deficit of approximately £43,000 for 2026, requiring careful monitoring of reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 01/11/2022, 1 day after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Maidstone Mencap (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN ROUGHLEYchair
• Amanda Masters
• Guy Roughley
• Lynn Jacqueline Snedden
• Mark Smith
• Mary Rimmer
• Shona Callaghan

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

Operates in: Kent

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 MERTON MENCAP.

• MERTON MENCAP income £767k
• BOURNEMOUTH GATEWAY CLUB LIMITED income £113k
• MIDLAND MENCAP income £10.8m
• MELTON MENCAP income £655k
• SUTTON MENCAP CHARITY COMPANY income £1.1m
• BRIDGING THE GAP YOUTH - MERTHYR income £168k

Side by side with its peers

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