MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1091105 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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 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
• 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

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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 MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• MENINGITIS NOW income £2.1m
• MOLLY ROSE FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• MY MITO MISSION income £132k
• MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH UK income £280k
• THE MIGRAINE TRUST income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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