HARPENDEN MENCAP

Registered charity 1035252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARPENDEN MENCAP SOCIETY, HARPENDEN SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Harpenden Mencap was first formed in 1959 as a parental support group. The organisation has expanded over the years and now provides services for adults with learning disabilities including supported living, domiciliary care, employment support and social activities.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ADVANCE RELIGION AMONGST PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY; ANDB) 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.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE HARPENDEN, HERTS AND IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £2,602,834, which is below the assessed free reserve requirement of £500k, resulting in a deficit on free reserves of £301k. The charity reported a net surplus of £189k for the year, with total income of £2.89 million and total expenditure of £2.7 million. The trustees confirmed that the charity is expected to meet its liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Miller & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02903642

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Harpenden 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.

• CASEBERRY, Gary — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Peter Malcolm — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
• ROSSER-SMYTH, Caroline — director, appointed 12/09/2018on trustee list
• CASEBERRY, Julie Caroline — director, appointed 16/11/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Harpenden Mencap — Registered, 5 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 15/01/2019.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)

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ana-Julia Van Bilsen Irias
• Andrew Wilks
• CAROLINE ROSSER-SMYTH
• Deborah Stuart
• Gary Caseberry
• Jennifer Russell
• Julie Caseberry
• Roma Epstein
• Sharon Joan Long · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Cook

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIDLAND MENCAP.

• MIDLAND MENCAP income £10.8m
• MENCAP IN KIRKLEES income £3.6m
• ENFIELD MENCAP income £730k
• HUNTINGDON MENCAP SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.7m
• SAFFRON WALDEN MENCAP SOCIETY income £50k
• MELTON MENCAP income £655k

Side by side with its peers

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