SHEFFIELD MENCAP
Registered charity 1056155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHEFFIELD MENCAP & GATEWAY
We are the largest local provider of services for people with a learning disability and their family carers in Sheffield. We currently work with over 700 people with a learning disability and their family carers, providing a wide range of activities and support services to enable them to live fair, full and happy lives
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £582,742, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £397,832 for the year, resulting in a total increase in funds to £1,466,866. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months of the resources expended (held: £583k)
“The executive committee have developed a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in the tangible fixed assets (the free reserves) the charity holds should be six months of the resources expended.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Dave Swindlehurst — CEO (source)
- Katy Pugh — Chair of Trustees (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.
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.
- HARRIGAN, Eamonn Oliver — director, appointed 06/08/2025on trustee list
- FRODSHAM, Simon — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
- BAJIN, Maria — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
- DELANEY, Brigitte — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
- DOYLE, Catherine Anne — director, appointed 06/02/2023on trustee list
- TKACZ, Adam Jozef — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
- BADGER, Judith — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
- PUGH, Katy — director, appointed 25/03/2017on trustee list
- BAXTER, Michael — director, appointed 16/03/2016on trustee list
- SWINDLEHURST, David — secretary, appointed 24/05/2022
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Katy Pughchair
- Adam Jozef Tkacz · trustee of 1 other charity
- Brigitte Delaney
- Eamonn Harrigan
- Judith Badger
- Maria Bajin
- Michael Baxter
- Simon Frodsham
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Sheffield City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SHEFFIELD MENCAP financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £582,742, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £397,832 for the year, resulting in a total increase in funds to £1,466,866. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis Limited.
Who funds SHEFFIELD MENCAP?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SHEFFIELD MENCAP as a grant recipient include NETHERTHORPE AND UPPERTHORPE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE, THE HOSPITAL OF GILBERT, EARL OF SHREWSBURY AT SHEFFIELD, MARJORIE COOTE OLD PEOPLES CHARITY FUND, SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST, CHURCH BURGESSES TRUST.
Known funders
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