WEST BERKSHIRE MENCAP

Registered charity 1076658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve, advance the education of, and support those people who have a learning disability and their families/carers.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text consists solely of the auditor's report and signature page for West Berkshire Mencap's annual report for the year ending 2025-06-30. It does not contain financial statements, reserves data, or operational details necessary to assess the charity's financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03790942

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — West Berkshire Mencap (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery — “national lottery funded” (source page)

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.

• POYDA, Luc Ethan — director, appointed 11/11/2025on trustee list
• LAURIE, Jean — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• LEECH, Graeme Robert — director, appointed 03/08/2023not on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Alastair James — director, appointed 12/05/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Stephen Luff — director, appointed 14/07/2016on trustee list
• LEECH, Gillian Claire — director, appointed 22/10/2014on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Darren Paul — director, appointed 22/11/2012on trustee list
• DURRANT, Stuart Robert — director, appointed 21/10/2010on trustee list
• POINTER, Paul Christopher — director, appointed 22/11/2007on trustee list
• ROSSITER, Thomas William — director, appointed 21/06/2007not on trustee list
• HAGAN-VAUGHAN, Sara Margaret — secretary, appointed 01/08/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: West Berkshire Mencap — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/10/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (94% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Jacob's Well: Good (13/11/2018) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair James Chapman
• DARREN ANDERSON
• GILLIAN CLAIRE LEECH
• Jean Laurie
• Luc Ethan Poyda
• MR TOM ROSSITER
• PAUL CHRISTOPHER POINTER
• STUART ROBERT DURRANT
• Stephen Luff Smith

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

Operates in: West Berkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII.

• THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII income £50.0m
• ACTION FOR KIDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.7m
• HULL AND EAST RIDING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD income £3.7m
• THE OAKLANDS income £1.4m
• LIBURY HALL income £2.2m
• CRADLE CHARITY income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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