NEW FOREST MENCAP

Registered charity 1038962 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

New Forest Mencap provides support and services for people with a learning disability in the New Forest area, their families, dependants and carers which will benefit them and improve their quality of life. It offers advice and guidance to parent/carers and to volunteers and works to raise awareness of people with learning difficulties

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 B) 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: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £58,702 for the year, resulting in a decline in total net assets from £207,652 to £148,950. While unrestricted reserves increased to £121,600, restricted funds fell significantly to £27,350 as major National Lottery funding concluded. The trustees acknowledge that the continuation of the charity is not guaranteed in the medium term due to exhausted reserves and lost revenues, though they remain optimistic about securing future funding for core activities.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Burry Trust — “Thanks to funding from the Burry Trust, we can offer days out and social events with friends...” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Challis
• Pauline Pegram · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wendy Mavis Trimnell

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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