Croydon Mencap

Registered charity 1073063 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROYDON MENCAP LIMITED

To provide advice, information and support to people with learning disabilities and their families.To maintain general interest and research into the activities carried out by younger aged adults with learning disabilities.To develop the Older Cares Project providing advice and support to Older Carers of people with learning disabilities.

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Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.0m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £185,815 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a strategic shift to reduce overheads and secure new funding. Total funds stood at £836,573, with unrestricted reserves of £626,158, which the trustees confirm adequately cover three months of operating costs. The trustees and auditors both confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Support Service Fees (62% of income)
“Support Service Fees 61.5%”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to six months of anticipated future expenditure (held: £626k)
“The charity seeks to maintain an unrestricted reserve at all times of a minimum of 3 months up to a maximum of 6 months of the anticipated future expenditure of the charity under free reserves.” — page 49
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

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.

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

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.0m
Reserves (reported)
£626k
Employees
35

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median 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).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.2m£1.0m
31/03/2024£741k£782k
31/03/2023£582k£676k
31/03/2022£675k£706k
31/03/2021£549k£563k

Common questions

Is Croydon Mencap financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £185,815 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a strategic shift to reduce overheads and secure new funding. Total funds stood at £836,573, with unrestricted reserves of £626,158, which the trustees confirm adequately cover three months of operating costs. The trustees and auditors both confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Chariot House Limited.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/04/2025£20kOut and About
The National Lottery Community Fund08/06/2023£148kVolunteering Buddies
The National Lottery Community Fund13/09/2005£99kSupport for older carers and older people with learning disabilities
The National Lottery Community Fund29/06/2005£3kArt Workshops

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 ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Croydon Mencap£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY FY2026£247.3m£196,248—unclear—no doubt
MENCAP IN KIRKLEES FY2025£3.6m—0unclear—no doubt
HERTSMERE MENCAP FY2025£183k—0above—no doubt
MERTON MENCAP FY2025£827k—0unclear—no doubt
SHEFFIELD MENCAP FY2025£1.5m——within—no doubt

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