MARCHES ENERGY ADVICE

Registered charity 1070942 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M.E.A., THE MARCHES ENERGY AGENCY

Marches Energy Agency (MEA) specialises in the delivery of practical, effective and creative ways of promoting and enabling energy reduction and renewable energy solutions.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £408,800, exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of £342,048. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by a pipeline of potential work and sustained funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Marches Energy Advice (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Davina Allen — Director (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).

• Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme — “A huge vote of thanks to Connexus for the property and to the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme for funding this project.” (source page)
• Telford & Wrekin Council — “Telford Energy Advice (TEA) has entered an exciting new phase, with thanks to funding from the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme and …” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA JOY CATTERMOLE
• Christopher Deaves · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Brown
• Elliot Alan Jones
• John Matthew Prime

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Dudley · Herefordshire · Nottinghamshire · Shropshire · Staffordshire · Wolverhampton · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 MEAPA.

• THE MEAPA income £1.4m
• CASA MEA UK income £174k
• ACT ON ENERGY income £4.7m
• MANCHESTER ACTION ON STREET HEALTH income £1.5m
• NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION income £15.3m
• MARS ORG. LTD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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