THE MEA TRUST

Registered charity 1074895 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MEA House first opened in 1974 and currently has 23 tenants, which includes four tenants who are commercial entities involved with the voluntary sector. The majority of the offices are let to charities at below market rate.

Objects

FOR SUCH PURPOSES RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND TO BE CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT

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: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is being dissolved and wound up, with all remaining assets transferred to another charity. The financial statements are prepared on a basis other than going concern, reflecting the cessation of activities and the sale of the charity's primary fixed asset.

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 5 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03721573

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.

• BOWETT, Simon David — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• CAIRNS, Teresa Mary — director, appointed 17/09/2019not on trustee list
• SPRIGGS, Michael Ian — director, appointed 27/03/2018on trustee list
• LANE, James — director, appointed 05/12/2017on trustee list
• GILROY, Stephen Thomas — director, appointed 06/06/2017on trustee list
• MCKAY, William — director, appointed 19/06/2013on trustee list
• SWEENEY, Karla — secretary, appointed 01/04/2019

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Teresa Mary Cairns Councillor
• JAMES LANE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Ian Spriggs
• STEPHEN THOMAS GILROY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Bowett
• WILLIAM MCKAY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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