Merlin Neuro Therapy Centre Ltd

Registered charity 1093691 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MERLIN MS CENTRE LTD, THE CORNWALL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE LTD, THE MERLIN PROJECT

A centre of excellence in Cornwall providing a range of expert care,support and therapies for those living with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological conditions;and for their families and their friends

Objects

The objects of the Charity are to relieve sickness and to preserve and protect the physical and mental health of individuals with neurological conditions (including but not limited to multiple sclerosis), and people with neurodiversity, in such ways as the trustees think fit, in particular but not exclusively by the provision of assessments and therapies, advice, guidance, counselling, and other support services and facilities delivered at a purpose-built Centre in Cornwall and at other appropriate settings, and by using digital platforms.

Area of benefit: CORNWALL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net operating deficit of £160,919 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by operating expenditure exceeding income. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted general reserves of £322,305, which the trustees deem sufficient to support operations through 2026 in line with their policy of maintaining three months of operating expenses. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04460611

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Merlin Neuro Therapy Centre LTD (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARLAND, Katie — director, appointed 19/02/2025on trustee list
• HICKS, Steven Mark — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• FOSTER, Rachel Victoria — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Tracey Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• WARD, Michael Allan — director, appointed 24/10/2020on trustee list
• SNEDDON, Thomas — director, appointed 15/08/2019not on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Emma Jane, Dr — director, appointed 07/01/2014on trustee list
• JAMES, Michael Ernest Frank — director, appointed 19/09/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tom Sneddonchair
• Dr Emma Campbell
• Katie Harland
• Michael Allan Ward
• Michael James
• Rachel Foster
• Steven Mark Hicks
• Tracey Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Kent Neuro Therapy Centre Limited.

• Kent Neuro Therapy Centre Limited income £782k
• NEURO THERAPY CENTRE LTD income £1.1m
• MARILLAC NEUROLOGICAL CARE CENTRE income £7.5m
• NOTTINGHAM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED income £115k
• HARROW MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED income £351k
• Chilterns Neuro Centre Ltd income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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