MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1091105 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30296984 · also registered in Scotland as SC037586 (OSCR)

Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) supports research, advocacy and action that helps defeat meningitis and septicaemia. We do this by funding research, carrying out our own research and supporting the research environment. We advocate for better health policy on behalf of people affected. We provide direct support to people and families. We are based in the UK and work around the world.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ALL FORMS OF MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS;(B) TO PROMOTE THE DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED BY SUCH RESEARCH;(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CAUSES, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS;(D) TO HELP RELIEVE DISTRESS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES CAUSED BY DEATH AND DAMAGE THROUGH MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £381,367 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £4.44 million to £4.06 million. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1.2 million fall within the stated policy target range of £1-1.3 million, representing three months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

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

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Pfizer — “This project is supported by a grant from Pfizer. Its work is independent , with no funder hav ing influence on its focus .” (source page)

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Margaret Mackrill
• Dr Matthew Edward Coldiron
• Dr Priscilla Ngozi Ibekwe
• Ekundayo Kehinde Ajayi-Obe Dr
• Jane Plumb · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jemima Mary Wei Jacobs
• Mala Harris-Langdon
• Megan Jane Challis
• Micheal Nallen
• Museji Takolia
• Peter Rowlands Mr
• SARAH JEFFERY · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIMOTHY ROBERT LLOYD

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 SPENCER DAYMAN MENINGITIS RESEARCH.

• SPENCER DAYMAN MENINGITIS RESEARCH income £182k
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• MANCHESTER NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH TRUST FUND income £33k
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST income £4.4m
• THE MCPIN FOUNDATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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