MATHEMATICS IN EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY

Registered charity 1058911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEI

MEI advances the education of the public in the field of mathematics and promotes links between education and industry in mathematics.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £27,025 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £11,722,233 and total expenditure of £11,695,208. Per the trustees' report, the balance sheet remains in a strong position with total reserves of £1,098,706, which is consistent with the charity's reserves policy requiring a minimum of £680,262 in free reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MEI (Maths in Education and Industry) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charlie Stripp — Chief Executive (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Department for Education — “A DfE-funded programme to improve maths progression and support high-quality teaching of AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics and …” (source page)
• UK Space Agency — “Funded by the UK Space Agency, MEI has created hands-on activities using satellite data to help KS3–5 students build maths skills and explor…” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR DAVID BEDFORD
• David Morgan Hancox
• Dr James Joseph Coughlan
• Inderpal Singh Bahia
• Lowri Williams
• Nathan Day
• Navarda Joedy Garside
• Professor Victoria Pope · trustee of 1 other charity
• Serena Anne Tierney
• Stephen David Pardoe
• Steven Labedz

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS.

• THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS income £1.3m
• ME'OR EINAYIM LIMITED income £283k
• INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION income £127k
• THE MSE CHARITY income £138k
• MERSEY SCHOOL OF ANAESTHESIA income £418k
• ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.